Biography
Lee Quick is your typical female singer / songwriter / guitarist / Katrina refugee / ex-Army-bassoonist with a steel plate in her wrist and a penchant for sarcasm.
Straight-shooting, smart-sexy, and occasionally funny as hell, Lee Quick dishes out Americana, alt. country, new folk, and whatever else she likes. The ex-New Orleans singer-songwriter-guitarist delivers insightful and well-crafted songs with wit and warmth, and with attitude ranging from wry to wrathful to sentimental.
A lifelong musician, Lee is an experienced and compelling performer, able to deliver intensity and nuance in her live shows, and as comfortable on a festival stage as in a living room. In short: she sounds good, plays good and looks good doing it.
Her original songs show eclectic influences from the likes of the Beatles, Elvis Costello, k.d. lang, and Lucinda Williams. Her first album, "Do You Think?", recorded in a shotgun house (now deceased) in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, was self-released in February 2004 and is available for download all over the Internets, including iTunes and cdbaby.com.
Recent releases [available at LeeQuick.com] are "I Wondered" (2008, 6 songs), "Songs For Refugees" (2007, 11 songs) and the single "Yes Please (Big Brother)", dedicated to George F. Bush. She records her songs at home on an iMac with GarageBand 3. Yes, it's all her.
PERFORMANCE HISTORY:
Lee started with her first three original songs at an open mic in January 2001, and because all three were good, quickly progressed to appearances such as the "15 Minutes" singer-songwriter showcase at the House of Blues (New Orleans), the Greater Baton Rouge State Fair (thrice), and the long-running Abita Springs Opry, which presents Louisiana roots music on local TV and radio. Lee won second place in the 2002 MOVA Festival Songwriters Competition (Alabama) and was a finalist in 2003, placing songs in folk, country, and rock/alternative categories. That year she also made her first festival appearance at the Southern Womyn's Festival in Georgia. In 2004 Lee performed live on "New Orleans After Midnight," broadcast locally on FOX 8 TV, and played at Tipitina’s in uptown New Orleans two months before the hurricane hit.
In 2005 Lee survived a forced relocation from New Orleans to Nashville, Tennessee, where she appears regularly around town, including the famous Bluebird Cafe Writers Night. In April 2006 she appeared singing in a choir surrounding Keith Urban on the CMT Music Awards, and got a great view of his backside.
Lee also has a bachelor's degree in music, but please don't hold that against her.
Instrumentation
Lee Quick: Martin DC-16GTE acoustic guitar & the Porchboard Bass
[Lee plays solo, or with backing band of bass • guitar • fiddle/mandolin • percussion]
Discography
"Do You Think?" CD self-released February 2004
"Songs For Refugees" downloads self-released August 2007
"I Wandered..." downloads self-released March 2008
Radio play (known):
Louisiana: WWOZ-FM [wwoz.org], WRKF-FM, WTUL-FM, KBON-FM
Tenneesee: WRFN 98.9 Radio Free Nashville
Hawaii: KKCR
Internet radio: AcousticFuel.com, Download.com, NewOrleansRadio.com, HoundogRadio.com, etc.
CD Compilations:
"Willow Tree Bend" included on "The Goddess Within" CD, benefitting women's domestic abuse programs, 2004
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Links
| http://leequick.com |
| Concerts In Your Home artist page |
| "Being There" Magazine interview |
| MySpace |
| Nashville Independent Music |