Lenny Breau | |
Type: | Studio album |
Artist: | Lenny Breau |
Cover: | Lenny Breau album.jpg |
Released: | June 1979 |
Recorded: | February 22, 1979 |
Studio: | Sound Stage, Nashville, Tennessee |
Genre: | Jazz |
Length: | 34:22 |
Label: | Direct-Disk Labs |
Producer: | Joe Overholt |
Prev Title: | Five O'Clock Bells |
Prev Year: | 1979 |
Next Title: | The Legendary Lenny Breau... Now! |
Next Year: | 1979 |
Lenny Breau is an album by Canadian guitarist Lenny Breau, released in 1979.
Originally released on Direct-Disk Labs, it was reissued in 1995 on the Adelphi label and as Lenny Breau Trio on CD on the Genes label in 1999.
Breau's friend and mentor Chet Atkins guests on "You Needed Me".
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow called Breau "in fine form" and wrote of the album "This album gives listeners a strong example of his legendary artistry." In reviewing the Adelphi reissue for JazzTimes, critic Bill Milkowski wrote "Breau demonstrates mind-boggling facility and fluidity on a jazzy interpretation of Bob Dylan's 'Don't Think Twice (It's Alright)' and on a blistering, pent-up rendition of John Coltrane's 'Mister Night.' Jazz guitarists everywhere need to check out this remarkable (and remarkably overlooked) player."