Corky Siegel is a master of the blues piano and a harmonica genius who charms the ears off anyone who sees him. He's a superior entertainer that performs his own eclectic clever visions that even make the music sound funny as though the piano keys were laughing along with the audience. We could say James Lee Stanley is probably the last great, undiscovered singer-songwriter in America - but true as that may be, let's say something else. Let's say a diamond has been smuggled into the wasteland, and here is where the wasteland ends. Together, Corky and James Lee will dazzle you by mining unexpected musical gems sparked with a sense of humor one might expect from two artists that have toured regularly with icons like Bob Hope, George Carlin and Stephen Wright.
Siegel has earned an international reputation as one of the world's great blues harmonica masters. He is a composer, blues pianist, singer / songwriter, and recent winner of the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest/Meet the Composer's national award for chamber music composition and the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award for Music Composition. He has 18 recordings and over 35 reissues on: Vanguard, RCA, Alligator (the exclusively Blues label) and Gadfly Records, and two album projects for the prestigious classical label Deutsche Grammophon (DG). The DG release of William Russo's Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra featuring Corky's blues band, Siegel-Schwall (for whom the work was written) with Seiji Ozawa and the San Francisco Symphony, was a block-buster in sales and had "an unprecedented inter-generational impact on the American music scene. " - Music Critic - David Sckolnik.
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It is only a long lived singer-songwriter career that lets JAMES LEE STANLEY unite the unpredictable creative turns and the eclectic elements that make up his world. His remarkable ability as a vocalist and composer allow him to create songs, each recorded with finely crafted guitar orchestrations that enhance the lyric. But a whole new dimension is added when James Lee performs live. These incredible songs, coupled with his outragously hilarious repartee, make for an evening of hilarity and tenderness and one of the most entertaining concerts on the circuit. He has been hailed as one of the few all time greats and undisputed geniuses among singer-songwriters. Fi Magazine listed his FREELANCE HUMAN BEING as one of the finest recordings of 1998 and one of the Top 200 Recordings of all time - FI Magazine March 1999.
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