Lee Ranaldo
Born: 3 / 2 / 1956
Location: United States
Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as a co-founder of the rock band Sonic Youth. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its "Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list. In May 2012, Spin published a staff-selected top 100 guitarist list, ranking Ranaldo and his Sonic Youth bandmate Thurston Moore together at number 1.
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Album Review: Lee Ranaldo - Electric Trim
"The hidden complexity of Ranaldo's guitar work is layered over straighter rock songs while his vocals have taken a folkier turn."
Live Review: Lee Ranaldo, Mike Patton
Spontaneous and unpredictable, it was another exceptional performance, both emotionally engrossing (despite any understanding of the Italian language) and visually stunning; he again showed us the importance of the pursuit of music in its many forms.
I Can Hear The Rain
"It sounded like there was music playing and sometimes it sounded very violent and discordant and other times it was very confident and beautiful."
Live Review: Lee Ranaldo, The Laurels
Lee's Trip
"We went through so many periods where we weren’t working as a group, everyone was working on the individual projects, so nothing felt overly different... so all of us were incredibly surprised at what was going on, because Thurston and Kim always seemed like this extremely stable couple. And this is personal stuff, and it’s hard to deal with in a public setting."
Album Review: Lee Ranaldo Between
Tomorrow Never Comes finishes the album with sonic references to Tomorrow Never Knows, and it’s a good reference point for the whole record.
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