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Hobo's Goodbye LISTEN The Exiles LISTEN Ancestor Song LISTEN Johnny Oh -- Fusillade For The White Man LISTEN There's Really No Goodbye LISTEN At 13 Mr. Lee decided that he wanted to be a songwriter and wrote his first melody, found in "Anthem For The Men Of The West" (see below). He then played in garage rock bands, high school dances, fairs, and bars for a few years, enough to hurt his ears. At 19 due to a spiritual longing Mr. Lee abandoned music to learn about religion and God. He continued to and play sporadically. But it was only at the age of 50 that he began to record his songs. Having both historic perspective and rich musical influences, he is a new and genuinely unique American artist suddenly arrived. Based on his first offering, he is likely to go down in the annals as one of America's important songwriters. Mr. Lee has mastered a rich musical lexicon. From the Enya-esque Gregorian Chants buried at the end of "The Exiles," to its crunch metal guitar chords, to the Beach Boyish backing vocals of "Johnny Oh," or the simple folkishness of songs like "Ancestor Song" and "There's Really No Goodbye" -- you can hear decades of musical flavors. The music is like old hits never heard. But Lee's songsmanship and voice are fresh and unique, and his lyrical content is rebellious and new. Original melody, song crafting, strong vocals, and pungent political message make Julian Lee one of the most fascinating songwriters of our time straight out of the box. |
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![]() Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Cello, and Drum Programming: Mr. Lee Violin: Bruce Windham Hear 3 Complete Mr. Lee Songs With One Click: The Western Sky Anthem For The Men Of The West Hymn For Dresden with YOUTUBE VIDEO Comment on Mr. Lee's songs, or write a review: mrlee@rebwest.com |
Hobo's Goodbye A fun wanderer's
song.
Unique but with pleasing shades of "King of the Road" and an
early-60's "eastern metropolitan" vibe of songs like "Groovin."
An
astonishing song, perhaps Lee's signature piece. Building
from brooding tension, it returns us to the power of
composition and the art of musical climax. With a
pleasing mix of acoustic instruments -- cello and violin --
plus Mr. Lee's dramatic vocals and e- guitar,.
"The
Exiles" is operatic in scope. In its breathtaking
ending an
enraged Creator mourns the departure of Adam and Eve from
Eden, as the
world begins.
A gentle acoustic
melody about the eternal bond between parents and
their children. A new European-American Lullabye.
About a universal
repeating human event: Leaving, going, dying. Unique surprise ending,
one of Lee's trademarks.<form act
A moving, anthemic song that
mourns the destruction of the ancient city of
Dresden in the last engineered war that killed 50 million
worldwide. The Allies' fire
bombing experiment turned the beautiful, ancient city into a storm
of fire in one night. This genuine and
indisputable holocaust killed at least twenty-five
thousand non-combatant
Germans (the conservative estimate; other estimates range much higher),
wounded 30,000, and destroyed one of the most beautiful
cities of Europe. The author Kurt Vonnegut was enlisted in Germany and
was one of the men who had to collect heaps of burned bodies after the
holocaust, writing about it in his book "Slaughterhouse Five." Dresden
was called "The Paris on the Elbe." It filled
with beautiful gothic period churches and was a center of European
music, art and culture -- including ancient universities and was
a manufacturing center for orchestral instruments and much more.
It had wonderful, broad, walking avenues. The city did not have
major
strategic value, was a gathering center for German refugees and
wounded considered to be off limits for bombing, and it was
attacked very late in the war when the Germans were already
in retreat and basically beaten. Dresden was also a major center of the
Catholic Church, with many churches and monasteries. Notably, the city
of Nagasaki in Japan -- also without much strategic value -- was also
the Catholic center of Japan. The destruction of Dresden was a
revenge act and an act of hatred against the German people and
Christianity. Later, immediately after the war, General Eisenhower
penned up more than a million German soldiers with no food, shelter, or
sanitation and simply watched them starve. This true story has been
hidden from the west, and along with Dresden is the closest thing to a
real "genocidal holocaust" to have occurred in WWII. Anthem For The |