Andy Fairweather-Low

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Andy Fairweather Low with his copies of Blues Matters! magazine ([1]) (Taken on November 4 2006)
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Andy Fairweather Low with his copies of Blues Matters! magazine ([1]) (Taken on November 4 2006)

Andy Fairweather-Low (born 2 August 1948, in Ystrad Mynach, Hengoed, Wales) is a British guitarist, songwriter and vocalist.

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[edit] Early career

Fairweather-Low first found fame as a founder member of the pop group Amen Corner in the late 1960s. They had four successive Top 10 hits, including the memorable Number One "(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice" in 1969. The band split in two in 1970, with Fairweather-Low leading Dennis Byron (drums), Blue Weaver (organ), Clive Taylor (bass) and Neil Jones (guitar) into a new band, Fair Weather. The band scored a UK Singles Chart Number 6 hit with "Natural Sinner" in July 1970, though the outfit's only album, Beginning From An End, failed to chart. After twelve months Fairweather-Low left to pursue a solo career, releasing five albums up to 1980 on A&M. These spawned further single chart success with "Reggae Tune" (1974), and "Wide Eyed And Legless", a Number 6 Christmas time hit in 1975.

In the 1980s he worked for numerous artists, doing mainly session work. In 1992 he started working for Eric Clapton (having earlier appeared in his band in the 1983 ARMS concerts for Ronnie Lane) and, whilst he has continued to do session work for various people, including Dave Edmunds, Fairweather-Low has spent most of his time since the early 1990s playing in Clapton's backing band, plus appearing on various albums and tours. In 1992, he played guitar on George Harrison's Live in Japan, along with the rest of Clapton's band, and in 2002, he played several of the lead guitar parts for the Harrison tribute The Concert for George. He also played guitar and bass on Roger Waters's "In The Flesh" world tour from 1999-2002. In 2004 he appeared in the Stratpack concert, celebrating 50 years of the Fender Stratocaster.

[edit] With The Who and Pete Townshend

In 1978, Fairweather-Low sang backing vocals on the Who album Who Are You, specifically on the tracks "New Song", "Had Enough", "Guitar and Pen", "Love is Coming Down", and "Who Are You". After filling in on guitar during rehearsal for the Who album It's Hard (Pete Townshend was in rehab), he ended up on the album itself, playing rhythm guitar on the song "It's Your Turn". Fairweather-Low later appeared on Townshend's 1993 album Psychoderelict and the accompanying concert tour.

[edit] With Joe Satriani

[2] In 1995, Fairweather-Low played rhythm guitar on Joe Satriani's self-titled CD. Along with Nathan East on bass, and Manu Katche on drums, Satriani with the help of Fairweather-Low, ventured into previous 'organic' territory with a new, stripped down approach, where he would use minimal effects and just tackle the lead guitar parts, where Fairweather-Low more than adequately backed him up.[citation needed]

[edit] Work since 2000

In 1999 and 2000 he played in Roger Waters's In the Flesh tour.

In 2002, Andy Fairweather-Low featured on "From Clarksdale To Heaven - Remembering John Lee Hooker" with, amongst others, Jeff Beck, Gary Brooker, Jack Bruce and Peter Green.

In 2005 he toured extensively with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. Some of the concerts were recorded for UK television, as part of their "50 Years Of Rock 'n' Roll" tribute.

In 2006, Fairweather-Low (plus Graham Broad) toured with both Roger Waters once more, this time for the latter's The Dark Side of the Moon tour, and with Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings.

[edit] Solo album discography

  • Spider Jiving (1974)
  • La Booga Rooga (1975)
  • Be Bop 'N' Holla (1976)
  • Andy Fairweather Low (1976)
  • Mega Shebang (1980)
  • Sweet Soulful Music (2006)

[edit] References

This is a combination of two Wikipedia articles on Fairweather-Low, one of which omitted the hyphen from his name.

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