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From: Jason Odd
Date: October 16, 2003
Lee Ross, ex-Playboy recorded and performed through California in the late 1950s into the 1960s, and he of course recorded some solo sides. In 1967 Lee was singing part time with the Roustabouts, a group that included Southern steel player Dennis Mathes and a couple of others who recorded in other projects and went on to other things. Both my sources of the 1967-1968 Roustabouts mention Lee sitting in with the group, but this ended when they moved to the Nashville West in El Monte in late 1967. Steel player Herb Steiner also mentioned that circa 1970-1971 he played with Lee in various groups around the Valley in Los Angeles. Steiner later made a name for himself after moving to Texas in 1972 and working with Alvin Crow, Dale Watson, Johnny Bush and Jerry Jeff Walker among many others. By 1971-1972 Pappy Stone had booked Lee into a series of gigs in the Colorado area with a group that included various Californian transplants, including singing drummer Pat Price who worked with Vern Stovall, Buddy Cagle, Wynn Stewart, Bob Tuttle and Phil Baugh in Ca, in the 1960s. Does anyone else have much on Lee and what happened to him?