Artist description A guy with a guitar

Music Style Acoustic guitar music

Musical Influences Leo Kottke, Pierre Bensusan, Chet Atkins, Edward Gerhard, Alex deGrassi, Will Akerman, Earl Klugh, Doug Smith, Adrian Legg, Lindsey Buckingham, Mark Knopfler, Steve Morse, Pat Metheny, Edward Van Halen, John Williams, Tom Rush, Eric Clapton, John Gorka, Jeff Beck, Joe Pass, Peter Townsend, Lobo, B.B. King, Michael Hedges, Buddy Guy, and (of course) George Sawyn

Similar Artists Leo Kottke, Pierre Bensusan, Chet Atkins, Edward Gerhard, Alex deGrassi, Will Akerman, Earl Klugh, Doug Smith, Adrian Legg

Artist History No one can really remember how it got started. Lorenzo picked up a really cheap Mexican guitar and began torturing his family. His Uncle Jose gave him his first guitar lesson on a hot summer afternoon in Texas City, Texas. Luckily for him, Lorenzo and his family left for Chicago the next day. For the next few months, Lorenzo agonized over the three-chord appreggio forcing his fingers to do things that nature had not intended. He also started trading licks with his friends Fast Johnny and Eddie, the Filipino guy (even though they both thought that there was something odd about Lorenzo's facination with Lobo and a dog named Boo). There was also the epiphany when Lorenzo first heard Leo Kottke while lying on a friend's dorm room floor in Iowa City, Iowa. (Is that a geographical theme here?)That was all decades ago. But the pain continues. Lorenzo mostly plays solo acoustic guitar music. It's not very complicated stuff. His former guitar teacher and dear friend George Sawyn once called him a guitar anarchist. That sums it up pretty well.

Group Members Lorenzo De Leon

Instruments Steel string and classical guitars

Albums Long Ago, Far Away

Location Arlington Heights, IL - USA

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