Leland Sklar: Relative Pitch

Lee Sklar Gets Up Close and Personal with The Immediate Family, His YouTube Channel, and His New Book

Leland Sklar: Relative Pitch

Lee Sklar Gets Up Close and Personal with The Immediate Family, His YouTube Channel, and His New Book

Lee Sklar, YouTube star? Lee Sklar, author? Lee Sklar, studio maven, joining a band? They say you can’t keep a good man down, even one who dwells in the lower frequencies. Admits Sklar, “I’d rather be too busy than have to look for ways to fill my time.” That theory is being put to the test as the music world very slowly but steadily tries to emerge from a global pandemic. With a daily commitment to his outstanding YouTube channel, in which he revisits classic tracks and shares stories from his remarkable career as undoubtedly the most recorded bassist in history, Sklar is increasingly being pulled from his spare bedroom show setting to do tours and recordings. Chief among those is the Immediate Family, whose self-titled, full-length U.S. debut just dropped [The Immediate Family, Quarto Valley Records], with a November tour to follow. The album features four lifelong friends who have been recording together as an A-List unit for six decades: Sklar, drummer Russ Kunkel, and gui
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Chris Jisi   By: Chris Jisi