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Artist Information
Biography
I started playing classical piano and trumpet in elementary school. My first ‘piano’ was a one-octave metal keyboard from a broken toy piano with the black keys painted on. So between my weekly lessons I practiced on this thing and had to imagine the sound of the notes. I transitioned to jazz and pop music while in high school, playing piano and Hammond B-3. I attended Hartt School of Music after high school and worked as a recording engineer/studio musician in addition to playing in many popular local bands throughout New York and New England.
In early 80's I drove cross-country to Los Angeles with no job and little money. While in L.A. I paid my dues working in many areas of the music profession as a studio musician, arranger, sound engineer, performer, and music instructor. I also wrote scores for student, indie and a couple of feature films which gave me some great experience with orchestration.
Eventually moving to North Carolina I most recently have been working as a producer/arranger for local songwriters and spent some time as the piano/B-3/sax man for the blues band Mighty Lester and played piano/B3/clav on their debut album Mighty Lester and the Blues Kings. Currently I'm playing keys for Nashville's Jamie Tate and Holland Marie. I've started a new contemporary rock/blues band called Brother's Keepur that will begin performing in October 2011. In the past few years I've opened locally for Kenny Chesney, Phil Vasser, LeAnn Rimes, Chuck Wicks, Gretchen Wilson, Josh Thompson and the Zack Brown Band. I'm the Creative Director for Rusted Gate Music, a music development, arranging, and production business based in Raleigh NC.
Instrumentation
Alan James Lorden - Guitar, Piano, organ, Vocal, Sax, Trumpet & Flugelhorn
Paul Kingery - Bass, Electric & acoustic guitars
Brian English - Fiddle
Pat Bautz - Drums & Percusion
Lisa Jackson - Backing Vocals
Discography
Mighty Lester - Mighty Lester piano/Hammond B3
Video
Press
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Being Frugal Is In Vogue - The Cheap Song By Al Lorden
This is a review of The Cheap Song by Music Xray CEO Mike McCready
