Lovie lee biography
Biography....
He was born Eddie Lee Watson on March 17, , but an aunt dubbed him “Lovie” when he was a baby, and the name stuck.
Lovie Lee
After decades of playing southern juke joints and South Side Chicago taverns, Lovie Lee’s career took a quantum leap in 1979. Joining the Muddy Waters band and cutting his first recording session would have been a boost for the career of almost any bluesman.
But, within the totally unspectacular framework of the long career of Lovie Lee, two such events in the same year were more like an atomic explosion.
For years, Lovie was simply the affable neighborhood piano player to the patrons of Porter’s Lounge and other ghetto clubs.
His good-natured stage presence, accented by his big grin and thick glasses, made him a solid draw at the Cinderella, Florence’s, The 1125 Club and Porter’s. Still, he had never recorded, never played in a big-name band, rarely toured outside Chicago, and had received only a few mentions in the blues publications, mostly because he was known as Carey Bell’s stepfather.
Then, he retired from his day job at an upholster