Lee Harris and Country Sunshine - Are You Ready for Christmas

Brian Collins - Drums and Percussion
Mark Golden - Electric Guitar
Lee Harris - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Doyle Hull - Bass
Jenny Jusell - Harmony Vocals

The War on Christmas

Are You Ready for Christmas?

Every summer I took a music theory class with Mr. Robert Dewell.  One day he brought in a reel to reel recorder and a moog.  This is what the class made with tape loops and whatnot.  It's Mr. Dewell running his voice through the moog saying the number one a lot.  I let him borrow the Residents Commercial Album which he loved.   He hated Prince and Elvis Presley.  "Prince's music will die with him!" he would rail.  

I Can Listen To Country

4-track song demo from 1988.  Brian Fechino-all guitars and basses, Lee Harris - drum programming and lead vocal, Jenny Jusell - harmony vocal.

Hope & Inspiration - Lee Harris & Brian Fechino w/Jenny Jusell

Rosebud, recorded live at The Metro in Richmond, VA circa 1990.

Hope & Inspiration - Rosebud

A Studio Project at MTSU in Murfreesboro, TN

Hope and Inspiration - Lee Harris

One of my personal favorites of any song I've ever done.  It's super-silly, and I got to perform it twice in front of people and freaked them out.  Two young ladies came into the store where I used to work and RECOGNIZED me from seeing me perform this live.  Hahaha.  I was playing the song very loud one day at Mom's house, she walked in the room and asked "what is this crap?" I told her it was me and she said, "Oh, sounds pretty good!"  L-O-G-I-C!  The fake band name on this is The Accessories, from the album "Spaced Out." 

Logic in the Beat

I wrote this in Nashville one night.  Just got up, went to the Casio, and made a little demo.  After moving back to Virginia, I finally got my first real synthesizer and went on a recording binge that lasted years.  Before I got a multitrack digital recorder, I would record straight to a PC and layer stuff on top of each other using Sound Forge, which is music editing software.  I was never able to get this song exactly like I heard it in my head (A sort of psychedelic freakout), but here is one of three attempts.

Lee Harris- After theFact

on 1/28/13, my son Henry joined my radio show as co-host.  He is 4.  Listen to the fun!  The show is on WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond www.wrir.org Mondays, from 7-9 eastern time.

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