(Blues Rock ) Bleu Lane - Just Living My Rock'N'Roll Life - 2003, APE (image+.cue), lossless

'Bleu Lane' was formed originally in Austin, Texas in 2000. The original members of the band or the founding members were Bill Lane, Lee Coate, and John Ellard. They used a number of musicians to fill in slots in the band including vocalist, Mike Cross, but after a year they had performed 5 times at gigs in Austin or near Austin. Lane returned to Atlanta and start over with writing partner, Stephen Fredrick who he had penned 2 songs and half songs with finishing the third himself while in Austin.<<
>> During September of 2000 Bleu went an attorney who represented him in several worker's compensation cases (Howard Osofsky) who helped him get into a studio with Steve Walsh of Kansas who helped to co-produce the demo: "Back In Bleu", with session musicians that included Bill Stewart on percussion who was part of the famed, Capricorn Rhythm Section. After finally finishing the Demo CD Lane began to work Music Row in Nashville with the help of Country Rock Icon, Mark Collie.<<
>> Mark took Bleu around to various agents, labels, and places helping to get a buzz going in Nashville. After going back and forth to Nashville for several years with the help of his friend, Don Scott, Lane decided instead to hook with legendary publishers, The Lowery Music Group. Butch Lowery signed Lane to a publishing deal, worked out details with Lane's attorney, Howard Osofsky, who helped to get the first demo done for Lane, then gave Bleu the funds to go record in Nashville in September of 2002. After returning from Nashville Lowery signed Bleu to Southern Tracks Records the indie in house label of the Lowery Music Group. Lowery released the album after getting legendary recording engineer and producer, Rodney Mills, to master the CD. The album was released on August 5th, 2003.<<
>> Lane suffered a major heart attack on the following Friday and things came to a grinding halt. Lane worked himself back from the heart attack to get in to shape to tour but in late July he suffered a stroke and moved back to Austin to be close to his family. Having just lost his father to Prostate Cancer in March, 2003, Lane was hurting. His degenerative spinal bone & disc disease began to worsen and he lost his ability to walk without a wheel chair or canes to support him. In November of 2006 doctors performed major spinal surgery on his lumbar region of his spine to remove loose pieces of bones that were working there way in to his spinal cord, cysts on his bones that were causing signal loss from his spinal cord that were keeping him from being able to walk, and 5 discs & vertebrae. In June of 2007 he suffered another heart attack and had three more Stents implanted in his heart muscle on the right side at the Audie Murphy Medical Center by surgeons from the University Of Texas Medical Center in San Antonio, which is right across the street from the Audie Murphy Medical Center in late August of 2007. Now healthy again he began to put a band together. <<
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>>Before the 'Bleu Lane' band name came together as a brain child of Steve Walsh of Kansas which led to the recording of "Just Livin' My Rock & Roll Life" and the recording contract from Southern Tracks Records (Lowery Music Group), Bill 'Bleu' Lane had been kicking around as a sideman, producer, recording engineer, session sideman, and a guitarist for a number of lessor known bands. Well known for his tone, feel, and taste Bill has made a career of "sitting in" with most of the "Southern Rockers" either in the studio, in clubs, or on tour. Well known for his taste & tone Eric Johnson told Lane that he had great tone & feel when he saw Lane play his vintage Les Pauls in the early 1980's while performing in Memphis on a double bill with Lane at, "The Madison House". Over the years of his career Johnson certainly would be considered an authority on tone. Clifford Antone, founder of the legendary Antone's Night Club in Austin, told Lane what a "Nice Job" he had done as he came off the stage for the first time after jammin' in the newer, bigger "Antone's" with Chris Duarte back on October 1st, 1999, during Duarte's second set that night. Clifford Antone was a man of few words so saying what he did to Lane was his highest praise. Although the Purple Dragon session was a nightmare for Steve Walsh he did believe that Bleu was a great Blues and Rock guitarist. <<