Michael Lee Firkins

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Manic Depression 00:00 Tools
Two Guns Left 00:00 Tools
Now's Your Time Blues 04:21 Tools
I-680 Waltz 00:00 Tools
One Big Punch (Crying Stacks) 00:00 Tools
Theme from Sanford and Son (The Streetbeater) 00:00 Tools
Blacklight Sonata 00:00 Tools
Pink Panther 04:42 Tools
The Horse and the Fly 00:00 Tools
Took The Words Right Outta My Mouth 00:00 Tools
Still Alive and Well 00:00 Tools
Black Betty 04:08 Tools
Little Wing 00:00 Tools
I Need You 00:00 Tools
Runaway Train 00:00 Tools
I Know a Little 00:00 Tools
Rain in the Tunnel 05:23 Tools
Laughing Stacks 00:00 Tools
The Window 00:00 Tools
24 Grand Avenue 00:00 Tools
Pick Up the Pieces 00:00 Tools
Cactus Cruz 00:00 Tools
The Sargasso Sea 05:25 Tools
Caravan 04:47 Tools
Space Crickets 00:00 Tools
Hula Hoops 00:00 Tools
Deja Blues 00:00 Tools
Trinity Road 00:00 Tools
Big Red 00:00 Tools
Hypno-5 00:00 Tools
Freeway Lines 00:00 Tools
Saturday Night 00:00 Tools
Car-Less Sonata 00:00 Tools
Grandma Dynomite 00:00 Tools
B.H. Express 00:00 Tools
Rio Hide-A-Way 00:00 Tools
Cajun Boogie 00:00 Tools
Dollar Blues 00:00 Tools
(Media Showers) 00:00 Tools
Kick Ass Bill 00:00 Tools
Baci Boy Blues 00:00 Tools
Midnight Surf 00:00 Tools
San Lucas 00:00 Tools
The Mooche 00:00 Tools
Hawaiian Gospel 00:00 Tools
I Witness 00:00 Tools
Reprise 00:00 Tools
Where Am I? 00:00 Tools
Golden Oldie Jam 00:00 Tools
Sanford & Son 00:00 Tools
Standing Ovation 00:00 Tools
No More Angry Man 00:00 Tools
Last Call 00:00 Tools
Long Day 00:00 Tools
Wearin' Black 00:00 Tools
Take Me Back 00:00 Tools
The Cane 00:00 Tools
Out of Season 00:00 Tools
No More Angry Man (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
Sanctify (in the studio; in progress) 00:00 Tools
Took So Long (in the studio; in progress) 00:00 Tools
Took So Long - In The Studio; In Progress 00:00 Tools
Déjà Blues 00:00 Tools
No More Angry Man, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Sanctify - In The Studio; In Progress 00:00 Tools
Media Showers 00:00 Tools
Saturday Morning 00:00 Tools
When Life Has It's Way 00:00 Tools
Self Control 00:00 Tools
Everybody Wants Something 00:00 Tools
Sanford And Son 00:00 Tools
Psycho Train 00:00 Tools
All Behind Me 00:00 Tools
Where'd Ya Go? 00:00 Tools
Free 00:00 Tools
Soul 00:00 Tools
When All You See Is Blue 00:00 Tools
Hypno 5 00:00 Tools
Fargo (feat. Michael Lee Firkins) 00:00 Tools
Throw It All Away 00:00 Tools
Runaway 00:00 Tools
Where Am I 00:00 Tools
Sanford & Son Theme (The Streetbeater) 00:00 Tools
Two Guns Left (feat. Thomas Pridgen, Kai Eckhardt, Steve Evans, Michael Bland, John Purtle, Matt Abts, Andy Hess, Chuck Leavell & Danny Alvarez) 00:00 Tools
One Big Punch 00:00 Tools
Golden Oldie (demo) 00:00 Tools
Black Beauty (feat. Thomas Pridgen, Kai Eckhardt, Steve Evans, Michael Bland, John Purtle, Matt Abts, Andy Hess, Chuck Leavell & Danny Alvarez) 00:00 Tools
Train Kept A Rollin' 00:00 Tools
Purple Rain 00:00 Tools
Now's Your Time Blues (feat. Thomas Pridgen, Kai Eckhardt, Steve Evans, Michael Bland, John Purtle, Matt Abts, Andy Hess, Chuck Leavell & Danny Alvarez) 00:00 Tools
Memphis 00:00 Tools
Backlight Sonata 00:00 Tools
Something 00:00 Tools
Mambo King 00:00 Tools
Now`s Your Time Blues 00:00 Tools
Theme from Sanford and Son [Quincy Jones] 00:00 Tools
Cat's Squirrel 00:00 Tools
Birdland 00:00 Tools
I-680 Waltz (feat. Thomas Pridgen, Kai Eckhardt, Steve Evans, Michael Bland, John Purtle, Matt Abts, Andy Hess, Chuck Leavell & Danny Alvarez) 00:00 Tools
Grandma Dynamite 00:00 Tools
Blacklight Sonata (feat. Thomas Pridgen, Kai Eckhardt, Steve Evans, Michael Bland, John Purtle, Matt Abts, Andy Hess, Chuck Leavell & Danny Alvarez) 00:00 Tools
24 Grand Avenue (1990) 00:00 Tools
Two Gans Left 00:00 Tools
l-680 Waltz 00:00 Tools
Took So Long 00:00 Tools
03 Runaway Train 00:00 Tools
Grand Avenue 00:00 Tools
Gramma Dynomite 00:00 Tools
Dance To The Music (feat. Charlie Hitchcock, Fareed Haque & Michael Lee Firkins) 00:00 Tools
Where Am I- 00:00 Tools
Theme from Sanford and Son (Th 00:00 Tools
Theme from Sandford and Son (The Streetbeater) 00:00 Tools
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Michael Lee Firkins is an American musician born in 1967 in Omaha, Nebraska. His father was a lap steel guitarist and his mother a pianist, leading him to embrace music at the age of eight, starting with the acoustic guitar. Self-taught for the most part, he took additional lessons at an Omaha music store. By 1979 Michael had shifted to electric guitars, playing in local bands and in church until the age of 18. In 1985 he started touring the US with cover tune bands, but quit after becoming frustrated with playing cover tunes. He returned to his home town and started giving music lessons, until he recorded a 5-song demo tape which came to the attention of Guitar Player Magazine talent scouts. As a result, in 1990 he released his self-titled debut album, which sold an impressive 100,000 copies in the US and Europe, where he even garnered an Edison Award (the Dutch equivalent of the Grammy Award). Firkins has a unique style blending rock, country, blues and jazz, and a hybrid picking technique which combines fingerpicking and using the plectrum at the same time. He is also able to "shred" (play very fast sequences of notes, most often in solos) impressively. Discography: * 1990 - Michael Lee Firkins * 1994 - The Howling Iguanas * 1995 - Chapter Eleven * 1996 - Cactus Cruz * 1999 - Decomposition * 2007 - Blacklight Sonatas * 2008 (expected) - Since 1967 He has also worked with other artists and appears on various projects, such as Perspective (he played many of the guitar solos since Becker was unable to play the guitar because of his condition). Firkins' official home page Unofficial fan page Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.