Original modern country folk and folk-rock in the tradition of Guy Clark, Bob Dylan, and Jerry Jeff Walker.

14 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Folk Rock, COUNTRY: Country Folk



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Singer/songwriter/guitarist Lenny Solomonâs style has been compared to early Bob Dylan, Guy Clark, and Jerry Jeff Walker. Solomon began his career in the late 1960s. A fixture in the old Idler Coffeehouse in Harvard Square, Cambridge, he regularly performed there on Friday nights for over eight years. The Idler was a training ground for such luminaries as Geoff Bartley, Paul Rishell, Spider John Koerner, and Ric Ocasek. During his years as a solo performer he shared bills with many name performers such as Chris Smither, Carolyn Hester, Bonnie Raitt, and Spider John.
For many years music provided a backdrop to his life. From the 1980s through the mid-1990s Solomon continued to write songs but rarely performed in public. He chose rather to raise his family (now grown) and to work on climate research at Harvard University.
In 1997 Solomon got back into performing live and formed a folk/country band appropriately enough called the Lenny Solomon Band. Performing his original material, the Solomon Band released three CDâs, one of which, Not Life Threatening, is still available. Not Life Threatening received rave reviews and garnered airplay on over 30 public and college radio stations.
In 2004 Solomon released a solo effort, Armandoâs Pie. Tracks from this album have been aired on over 120 radio stations. A review published in Rambles.net states, âThe 14 tracks on this CD are all excellent and diverse enough to ensure that any listener will find a few that could become favorites. Solomon has the wisdom of that other person of that name. He gives us songs to make us think but never lets the message get in the way of the fact that to transmit any message, the medium must grab and hold our attention.â
Solomonâs latest effort, Maybe Today (2007), is an eclectic collection of songs that span folk, country, pop, and blues. One of the albumâs songs, Letâs Go To Mars, has been rated as high as #20 in popularity out of the over 1200 topical songs posted on Neil Youngâs website. Solomon regularly performs solo and with any or all of his band members in the greater Boston area. His website is www.solomonband.com.