Year : 2020 (Big Sister Records Digipak Edition 2021)
Style : Melodic Rock , Blues Rock
Country : Canada
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 152 mb
Bio:
Lee Aaron (born Karen Lynn Greening, July 21, 1962) is a Canadian rock and jazz singer. She had several hits in the 1980s and early 1990s such as "Metal Queen", "Whatcha Do to My Body" and "Sex with Love".Lee Aaron was born in Belleville, Ontario, and began singing in school musicals at the age of five.She was discovered singing in a music production when she was fifteen years old, and was asked to join a local rock group called "Lee Aaron" while still in high school in Brampton, Ontario.Aaron sang, played alto saxophone and keyboards in this first incarnation of the band.At age seventeen, Aaron's face was badly bruised and her nose broken in a car accident.No surgery was required, but years later, in a profile on Aaron, Canadian Musician Magazine mistakenly embellished the incident into Aaron requiring complete facial reconstruction.The magazine printed a retraction in the following month's issue.1980s.Aaron's debut 1982 album The Lee Aaron Project on Freedom Records (later reissued on Attic) featured a who's who of the Toronto music scene, with members of Moxy, Riff Raff, Santers, and Triumph's Rik Emmett.The album, available in England only as an import, created a groundswell of interest that resulted in Aaron's appearance that year at the Reading Festival.In late 1982, Aaron flew to New York and posed topless for the men's magazine OUI.The magazine's March 1983 issue featured Aaron on the cover and in an interview. Aaron later concluded that posing for the magazine damaged her musical credibility; she regretted the decision and assigned blame for it to pressure from her manager.1984's recording of the album Metal Queen resulted in a multi-album deal with Attic Records.During the recording of Metal Queen, guitarist John Albani joined the band and he and Aaron formed a solid songwriting partnership that would last eleven years.Between 1984 and 1992, Aaron toured almost non-stop, including over twenty European tours and appearances in Japan and the US. She released six albums on Attic Records in Canada, as well as international releases in the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, The Benelux, Italy,Scandinavia, Australia and Japan. She has won three Toronto Music Awards for Best Female Vocalist, ten Juno nominations,and topped dozens of European music polls.Her greatest commercial success came with the release of Bodyrock in 1989. The album spawned several hit songs, including "Whatcha Do to My Body", and was certified double platinum in Canada.1990s.In 1992, Aaron left Attic Records to start her own label, Hip Chic Music,and released two more albums. On 1994's Emotional Rain (distributed by A & M Canada) Aaron worked with Don Short and Don Binns (Sons of Freedom), Reeves Gabrels (David Bowie's Tin Machine), and Knox Chandler (The Psychedelic Furs).1995's 2preciious was a project record written with members of Sons of Freedom. It was critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful,as she tried to drop the name "Lee Aaron" entirely and use her real name, Karen.In 1997, she began exploring jazz and blues.2000s.In 2000, she released Slick Chick, again on her own imprint, Barking Dog Music (with distribution by Fusion 3). Aaron played extensively for this release, showcasing at The Top of the Senator in Toronto and numerous jazz festivals across Canada and Europe.In 2002, Aaron was approached to audition with the Modern Baroque Opera Company. She was cast and appeared that year in an ALCAN Performing Arts Award-winning production called 101 Songs for the Marquis De Sade.Her eleventh album, Beautiful Things, a pop-jazz hybrid, was released in 2004.Lee Aaron continues to play both rock and selected jazz shows.On June 11, 2011, after 30 years in the business, she made her first appearance on Swedish soil when she played the Sweden Rock Festival.
Album:
Originally only available last year via her website (and featured in exclusive at 0dayrox) LEE AARON‘s “Almost Christmas” is being reissued by Metalville with the addition of two previously unreleased recordings.Almost Christmas contains lovingly curated tunes – from the foot-stomping rock ‘n’ roll ride of the feature track “It Doesn’t Often Snow At Christmas” (Pet Shop Boys) to the classic “Baby Please Come Home” to a sassy version of “Zat You Santa Claus?” – winding down with the introspective “All I Ever Get For Christmas Is Blue” (Over The Rhine) and an a capella rendition of Joni Mitchell’s timeless “The Fiddle And The Drum”. You’ve never heard Christmas done quite like this.Lee and her band (Sean Kelly-guitar, Dave Reimer-bass, and John Cody-drums) had tossed around the notion of a Christmas album over the years, but there was always something – tours / recording / life etc. – that kept the project on the back burner.With all shows cancelled and studios shutting dow due Covid-19, there was suddenly time available. Containing 12 lovingly biting curated X-mas tunes, “Almost Christmas” rocks great.“Almost Christmas” is a varied, fun Xmas record.Aaron explains; “There’s a lot of passion and joy that went into these recordings. The album represented something really positive and hopeful that we could focus on during this unprecedented down-time. It was a gift that lifted our spirits and we hope it has the same effect on others.” Aaron is vocally in top form, and the band feels tight, classic rockin’ strong.
Line Up:
Lee Aaron – Vocals, Guitar
Sean Kelly – guitar
Dave Reimer – bass
John Cody – drums
Tracklist:
01. Everything’s Gonna Be Cool This Christmas
02. Baby Please Come Home
03. Run, Run, Rudolph
04. It Doesn’t Often Snow At Christmas
05. Zat You Santa Claus?
06. I Don’t Believe In Christmas
07. Merry Christmas Everybody
08. All I Ever Get For Christmas Is Blue
09. Peace On Earth
10. The Fiddle And The Drum
11. Almost Christmas (Bonus Track)
12. More Fun On the Naughty List (Bonus Track)
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