Athens, GA based roots r&b rock and roll man, piano bangin gypsy healer. Bringing the dusty bottle blues of his to the world and influenced by such greats as J.J. Cale. Lowell George, and Greg Allman. Support your local Lefty!

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Lefty Hathaway tears through the ages with his accumulation of songs and spirit, touching on the down home experiences of strife, love, and angst brought from the elements of the world around him. Recently relocated to the southeast, he plans on popping his head up again for a run at the area that gave birth to what lefty considers "his brand of dusty bottle blues funk".
Born in the late 70's in London, U.K., Lefty moved back and forth with his family of five between England and the states.
Oklahoma culture introduced Lefty to the roots of the delta blues and R/B soul the likes of Freddy King, Leon Russell, and J.J. Cale, as well as embracing such new instruments as the piano, mandolin, and banjo.. "I got a chance to follow a couple of bands around during my late teens and early twenties" he recalls," The social scene of those shows are a foggy hue on my membrane, but I will never forget the euphoria of dancing to the flowing free improvisation that the bands at the time were doing".
Oklahoma culture introduced Lefty to the roots of the delta blues and R/B soul the likes of Freddy King, Leon Russell, and J.J. Cale, as well as embracing such new instruments as the piano, mandolin, and banjo.. "I got a chance to follow a couple of bands around during my late teens and early twenties" he recalls," The social scene of those shows are a foggy hue on my membrane, but I will never forget the euphoria of dancing to the flowing free improvisation that the bands at the time were doing".
The first band experience Lefty had was in Tulsa at 18 with a local rock and roll blues outfit. This was his first experience on the piano, and he was lucky to have J.J. Cale's collaborator and pianist Rocky Frisco as a guiding light. "Rocky taught me the valuable lesson in music that less is more, think before you play, or it is gibberish,” Lefty confesses.
After getting his first taste of live performance, Lefty took off to meet up with some old friends who had relocated to Flagstaff, AZ. He was juggling two performance bands, one an experimental acid jazz improvisation trio by the name of Nada Bindu, the other a folk rock quintet called Mamale, featuring the beautiful vocals of national recording artist Courtney Jaye, which layed on top of the crazy notational hammerings of lefty and his cohorts. " Those two projects were like night and day" he recalls, "but I really felt a strong attachments to both styles. It was like one beat on my brain and the other tweaked at my heart".
After those projects fizzled, Lefty saw fit to try other forms of musical expression, playing in blues bands with Clay McClinton ( son of Grammy winning country legend Delbert McClinton), being a foundational part of the nine piece funk band Professor Yuckmouth and the sister of interventions (Lefty geared up in his flashy alter ego Professor Yuckmouth , whooping and hollering across the stage in a mind altercated frenzy and dressed like Uncle Sam on Lithium and LSD) and finally with his first true rock ensemble, Ism. Lefty and his four friends became tightly knit group, touring around the western half of the country like gypsies in a medicine show This is where Lefty wrote most of the songs he carry’s and performs today.
With a barrel of new material that returns Lefty to the roots of his passion for songwriting, his relocation to the southeast looks like a promising one, and he anticipates the scene to be fruitful. As stated in the sultry ode to gypsy traveling Panneau de Neuf Sol, which is a track on his upcoming album due out Spring 2007, "You can't slow down, the time that circles around, words aren't enough, I'm treading new ground..............”

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