Lee Rocker (born Leon Drucker, August 3, 1961) is an American double bass player. He is a member of the rockabilly band Stray Cats.
He is the son of the classical clarinetists Stanley Drucker (the retired principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra) and Naomi Drucker. His sister Roseanne is a country music singer-songwriter. As a child, he played the cello and later learned bass guitar.
Drucker's school friends included James McDonnell and Brian Setzer. The three of them played together regularly and widened their musical interests to include the blues and rockabilly. Drucker also learned to play the double bass to incorporate the sounds of blues and rockabilly on the acoustic instrument. The three of them formed the group The Stray Cats in 1979. McDonnell took on the stage name of "Slim Jim Phantom", and Drucker devised his own stage name to "Lee Rocker". Rocker evolved his own style of slap-bass playing with the group.
Rocker and the Stray Cats sold nearly 10 million albums and garnered twenty three gold and platinum certified records worldwide, and made them a mainstay on MTV. In addition to Stray Cats, Lee Rocker and Phantom Rocker and Slick albums, Rocker has recorded or performed with Carl Perkins, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson, Leon Russell, Keith Richards, John Fogerty, and Scotty Moore. Rocker was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1982, as was his father, they are the second father-son duo to be nominated for aº Grammy in the same year. He considered to be an influential upright bassist in Rock n' Roll.
Lee Rocker performing at Memphis International Rockabilly Festival, August 2015
Accompanied by Slim Jim Phantom and guitarist, Earl Slick, Rocker formed the band Phantom, Rocker & Slick and recorded two albums for EMI Records titled Phantom, Rocker and Slick and Cover Girl. The song "Men Without Shame" landing Rocker back on MTV and in the charts. For Black Top Records, Rocker released the albums Big Blue (1994) and Atomic Boogie Hour (1995). He has also recorded for Alligator Records.
He released the album, Bulletproof, in 2003. His other albums included Black Cat Bone, released in August 2007, which featured Brophy Dale on guitar and Jimmy Sage on drums. Buzz Campbell (Hot Rod Lincoln and Sha Na Na) joined the band three years ago and gave them a Gretsch guitar sound. In 2011 Lee released an EP called "The Cover Sessions" which features cover versions of songs such as the John Lennon/Paul McCartney song "Come Together," Elton John's, "Honky Cat," and The Allman Brothers song "Ramblin Man." In addition to recording and touring, Rocker has hosted a radio show on KXFM-LP called 'Rumble and Twang with Lee Rocker.' Lee Rocker joined the cast of the Broadway hit "Million Dollar Quartet" as bassist Clayton Perkins, the brother of Sun Records recording artist Carl Perkins in a twelve-show run from January 21 through 31, 2011. He topped off the show with a special encore performance with the cast and an appearance on New York Today.
Lee Rockers latest band Consist of a 4 piece. Lee Rocker (Lead Vocal and Upright Bass) , Buzz Campbell (Electric Guitar & Banjo), Larry Mitchel (Drums) and Joey “Eights” Guevara (Piano, Harmonica, Acoustic Guitar).
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Leon Drucker, conocido como Lee Rocker (Massapequa, Nueva York, el 3 de agosto de 1961) es un músico contrabajista estadounidense. Tomó el seudónimo de Lee Rocker en 1979 cuando junto a Brian Setzer (guitarra y voz) y Slim Jim Phantom (batería) para formar el trío rockabilly Stray Cats.
En 1983, luego de varios éxitos como ¨Runaway Boys¨, ¨Stray Cat Strut¨, ¨Sexy and 17¨ y ¨Rock This Town¨, el trío se disuelve. Rocker y Phantom se unen a Earl Slick, ex guitarrista de David Bowie y forman otro trío llamado Phantom, Rocker & Slick con el cual en 1985 graban "Men without Shame" entre otros temas.
En 1986 vuelve Stray Cats, banda en la cual seguirán tocando hasta que en 1993 nuevamente se disuelven.
Colaboró en varios espectáculos con otros músicos, entre los cuales se destacan algunas reuniones de Stray Cats y el mítico Rockabilly Session, un concierto de Carl Perkins para la televisión inglesa en el cual tocaron George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Dave Edmunds, Slim Jim Phantom y Eric Clapton entre otros.
En febrero del 2002 realizó una gira por USA junto a otra leyenda viva del rockabilly, Scotty Moore (primer guitarrista de Elvis Presley en su etapa de la Sun Records), la cual juntó al pasado y al presente del rockabilly, en lo que fue un homenaje al Rey del Rock que les llevó desde Cleveland (Ohio) hasta Memphis (Tennessee), pasando por ciudades como Omaha, Detroit, Chicago, Kansas City y Minneapolis entre otras.
Luego de la disolución de Stray Cats, Rocker continuó su carrera como solista grabando en 1994 el álbum Big Blue, al que le siguieron: Atomic Boogie Hour(1995), No Cats (1998), Lee Rocker Live(1999), Blue Suede Nights - Live Rockabilly(2002), Bulletproof (2003), Burning Love (2004) que venía acompañado de un cd-rom con vídeos inéditos, Racin' The Devil (2005), Black Cat Bone (2007) y el último de su colección: Night Train To Memphis (2012).
Tracks:
01. Restless
02. Love Me Good
03. That's All Right/Blue Moon of Kentucky/Eastbound and Down
04. Mind Your Own Business
05. The Red Neck Mama
06. Miracle in Memphis
07. Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby
08. Please Don't Touch
09. Little Piece of Your Love
10. Little Buster
Label: J-Bird Records, Inc – No catalog number
Released: 1999
Genre: Rock
Style: Rockabilly, Rock & Roll
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