TIM LEE 3 Good2b3 Good2b3 is Tim Lee's newest release with his band Tim Lee 3. The album from this Southern trio is a combination of narcotic ballads and faster, potent tunes. The songs are filled with dual vocals from Tim himself and Susan Bauer, who also plays bass. Rodney C. Cash (no relation, although you'd swear he was kin to W.S. Holland) rounds out the "3" on drums and percussion.

Tim Lee has been involved in the American independent music scene since the early 1980s. His solo works, as well as his recordings with the Windbreakers and side projects with Matt Piucci (of Rain Parade) and Howard Wuelfing (Nurses, Half Japanese) have garnered critical praise from Rolling Stone, Creem, the Bob, Matter, Forced Exposure, NY Times, L.A. Reader, Washington Daily Post and many others. Over the last 25 years, Tim Lee has amassed several albums with his name on them: Good2b3 marks his 25th release!

Tim has toured the U.S. extensively with his own bands and as a sideman for Let's Active, Marti Jones, John Stirratt (Wilco) and the Swimming Pool Q's. He has provided production assistance to recordings by Will & The Bushmen, The Reivers, The Skeeters, The Primitons, Carnival Season and Absolute Grey.

Last year, Tim produced and compiled Just One More: A Musical Tribute to Larry Brown, a Great American Author, for Bloodshot Records, which included Alejandro Escovedo, the North Mississippi Allstars, Robert Earl Keen, Vic Chesnutt, Cary Hudson, Greg Brown, Bo Ramsey, Scott Miller & the Commonwealth, Pieta Brown and others.

On Good2b3, Tim's songwriting reflects his deep knowledge of what makes a song something memorable. With decades of experience and a talented rhythm section behind him, the arrangements sound organic, rousing, and just plain good. Check out the quickening "I Like It Like That," "Chuck Berry in Space" and "The Bridge," or kick back with "Just One More" and "Get Away Clean."

TIM LEE's HISTORY Following six Windbreakers LPs and EPs, Tim's first solo album, What Time Will Tell, was released in 1988 to unanimous critical praise. Jon Young's review of the record in Music/Sound Output called it: "...a stunning album, the kind of unexpected triumph that restores your faith in the power of art."

In early 1989, Lee again went into the studio with Holder to record The New Thrill Parade. Longtime pal and dB's/Steve Earle drummer Will Rigby joined in as well. This recording was eventually released in 1992 on New Rose records in France. Following the demise of Coyote Records, Tim regrouped with Bobby Sutliff in 1989 and '90 to record again as The Windbreakers. The result was 1989's charming and powerful At Home With Bobby & Tim and the even better Electric Landlady in 1990.

Another Tim Lee solo album came out in 1992 on DB records. Crawdad found Tim teamed up with producer/guitarist Rob Gal (Coolies, Ottoman Empire). In 1997, the Fundamental label released a double CD retrospective of Tim entitled All That Stuff which featured selections from across his career, including unreleased tracks and new songs recorded with Neilson Hubbard and members of Blue Mountain and Wilco.

Following a decade-long break from the music business, Tim Lee came back with a new band in 2001. He toured - both with his own band and the Windbreakers - across the country, and began working on his next solo record. Recorded in his adopted home of Knoxville, Tennessee, with members of The French Broads, Under the House came out in January of 2003. During those years, Lee also contributed guitar work, both live and in the studio, for artists such as Leslie Woods, Neilson Hubbard, Bobby Sutliff, Amy Rigby and Todd Steed.

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