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Greg Leisz (pronounced "Lease" ) is an American multi-instrumentalist, playing lap and pedal steel guitar
Steel guitar

Steel guitar is a type of guitar and/or the method of playing the instrument. The name steel guitar comes not from the material of which the guitar is made, but from the name of the steel, a slide held in the left hand....
s, guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
, mandolin
Mandolin

A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It is descended from the Mandora, a soprano member of the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which are open and are not decorated with an intricately carved grille lik...
, and bass. Little known by his own name, his playing has appeared on recordings by Tiger Army
Tiger Army

Tiger Army is an American psychobilly band that was formed in 1996 in Berkeley, California. ...
, Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell

William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an United States guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late '80s Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise music and more....
, Dave Alvin
Dave Alvin

Dave Alvin , is a guitarist, singer and songwriter....
, Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman

Tracy Chapman is an United States singer-songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Give Me One Reason", "New Beginning " and "Telling Stories"....
, The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. While the group has gone through several lineup changes, The Smashing Pumpkins consisted of Billy Corgan , James Iha , D'arcy Wretzky , and Jimmy Chamberlin for most of the band's recording career....
, Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet

Sidney Matthew Sweet is an United States alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Music of Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s....
, The Jayhawks, Beck
Beck

Beck Hansen is an United States musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and irony lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating sample , drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public...
, Me'shell Ndegeocello
Me'shell Ndegeocello

Michelle Lynn Johnson , better known as Meshell Ndegeocello, is an United States singer-songwriter, rapping, bassist and multi-instrumentalist....
, Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Douglas Cockburn, Order of Canada is a Canada folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His 29th album was released in summer 2006, and he has written songs in styles ranging from folk music to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll....
, Wilco
Wilco

Wilco is an American Rock music band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure....
, Shawn Colvin
Shawn Colvin

Shawn Colvin is a Grammy Award-winning United States singing, songwriter and musician....
, Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams is an United States rock music, folk music, and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public....
, Peter Case
Peter Case

Peter Case is an United States singer-songwriter and guitarist, who has had a wide-ranging career ranging from new wave music to folk rock to solo acoustic performance....
, Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
, Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
, Whiskeytown
Whiskeytown

Whiskeytown was an alternative country band formed in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1994. Fronted by Ryan Adams, other members included Caitlin Cary, Phil Wandscher, Eric "Skillet" Gilmore, and Mike Daly....
, Girish
Girish

The word Girish is derived from the joining of two Sanskrit words - Giri and Eish .Girish is a Hindu name which means "lord of the mountain" in Sanskrit....
, Bad Religion
Bad Religion

Bad Religion is an United States punk band, founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley , Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout ....
, k.d. lang
K.D. Lang

k.d. lang Order of Canada is a Canada pop music and country music singer-songwriter. The artist gives her name in lowercase letters, with the given names contracted to initials and no space between these initials....
, Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an United States singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock music, country music, pop music and folk music, into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards....
, and Robert Plant
Robert Plant

Robert Anthony Plant Order of the British Empire , is an England Rock and Roll singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the former rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career....
 and Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss is an American Bluegrass music-Country music singer and fiddler. She entered the music of the United States at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen....
, to name only a few. Leisz can also be heard on Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold

Avenged Sevenfold is an American rock music band from Orange County, California, formed in 1999. The band has achieved mainstream success with their 2005 album City of Evil, which included singles such as "Burn It Down ", "Bat Country," "Beast and the Harlot" and "Seize the Day ." The band's success followed with their Avenged Sevenfold...
's 2007 self titled album on the tracks "Gunslinger" and "Dear God".






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Greg Leisz (pronounced "Lease" ) is an American multi-instrumentalist, playing lap and pedal steel guitar
Steel guitar

Steel guitar is a type of guitar and/or the method of playing the instrument. The name steel guitar comes not from the material of which the guitar is made, but from the name of the steel, a slide held in the left hand....
s, guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
, mandolin
Mandolin

A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It is descended from the Mandora, a soprano member of the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which are open and are not decorated with an intricately carved grille lik...
, and bass. Little known by his own name, his playing has appeared on recordings by Tiger Army
Tiger Army

Tiger Army is an American psychobilly band that was formed in 1996 in Berkeley, California. ...
, Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell

William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an United States guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late '80s Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise music and more....
, Dave Alvin
Dave Alvin

Dave Alvin , is a guitarist, singer and songwriter....
, Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman

Tracy Chapman is an United States singer-songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Give Me One Reason", "New Beginning " and "Telling Stories"....
, The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. While the group has gone through several lineup changes, The Smashing Pumpkins consisted of Billy Corgan , James Iha , D'arcy Wretzky , and Jimmy Chamberlin for most of the band's recording career....
, Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet

Sidney Matthew Sweet is an United States alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Music of Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s....
, The Jayhawks, Beck
Beck

Beck Hansen is an United States musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known by the stage name Beck. With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and irony lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating sample , drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public...
, Me'shell Ndegeocello
Me'shell Ndegeocello

Michelle Lynn Johnson , better known as Meshell Ndegeocello, is an United States singer-songwriter, rapping, bassist and multi-instrumentalist....
, Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Douglas Cockburn, Order of Canada is a Canada folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. His 29th album was released in summer 2006, and he has written songs in styles ranging from folk music to jazz-influenced rock to rock and roll....
, Wilco
Wilco

Wilco is an American Rock music band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure....
, Shawn Colvin
Shawn Colvin

Shawn Colvin is a Grammy Award-winning United States singing, songwriter and musician....
, Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams is an United States rock music, folk music, and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public....
, Peter Case
Peter Case

Peter Case is an United States singer-songwriter and guitarist, who has had a wide-ranging career ranging from new wave music to folk rock to solo acoustic performance....
, Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is an United States Country music singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other highly successful, well-known artists....
, Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto....
, Whiskeytown
Whiskeytown

Whiskeytown was an alternative country band formed in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1994. Fronted by Ryan Adams, other members included Caitlin Cary, Phil Wandscher, Eric "Skillet" Gilmore, and Mike Daly....
, Girish
Girish

The word Girish is derived from the joining of two Sanskrit words - Giri and Eish .Girish is a Hindu name which means "lord of the mountain" in Sanskrit....
, Bad Religion
Bad Religion

Bad Religion is an United States punk band, founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley , Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout ....
, k.d. lang
K.D. Lang

k.d. lang Order of Canada is a Canada pop music and country music singer-songwriter. The artist gives her name in lowercase letters, with the given names contracted to initials and no space between these initials....
, Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an United States singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock music, country music, pop music and folk music, into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards....
, and Robert Plant
Robert Plant

Robert Anthony Plant Order of the British Empire , is an England Rock and Roll singer and songwriter, famous for his membership in the former rock band Led Zeppelin as the lead vocalist, as well as for his successful solo career....
 and Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss is an American Bluegrass music-Country music singer and fiddler. She entered the music of the United States at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen....
, to name only a few. Leisz can also be heard on Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold

Avenged Sevenfold is an American rock music band from Orange County, California, formed in 1999. The band has achieved mainstream success with their 2005 album City of Evil, which included singles such as "Burn It Down ", "Bat Country," "Beast and the Harlot" and "Seize the Day ." The band's success followed with their Avenged Sevenfold...
's 2007 self titled album on the tracks "Gunslinger" and "Dear God". He is credited on Amos Lee's Last Days at the Lodge as Greg Liesz.

Leisz was influenced early on by the Byrds
The Byrds

The Byrds were an American Rock music band. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964, The Byrds underwent several lineup changes, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group's disbandment in 1973....
 and Flying Burrito Brothers, especially pedal steel player "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow. During the 1970s he was a member of the short-lived and forgotten Funky Kings, created by Arista
Arista Records

Arista Records is an United States record label. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operates under the RCA Records....
's Clive Davis
Clive Davis

Clive Jay Davis is an American record producer, executive and a leading music executive. He has won multiple Grammy awards and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....
 to mirror the Eagles' success. The failure of the band convinced him that he would be happier outside of the spotlight. Since then, he has enjoyed a busy career as a sideman.

Two of his closest collaborators are Alvin (formerly of the Blasters
The Blasters

The Blasters are a rock and roll music group formed in 1979 in Downey, California by brothers Phil Alvin and Dave Alvin , with bass guitarist John Bazz and drummer Bill Bateman....
), for whom Leisz produced and played on several records, and Frisell, with whom he tours regularly and appeared on the records Good Dog, Happy Man
Good Dog, Happy Man

Good Dog, Happy Man is the eleventh album by Bill Frisell to be released on the Nonesuch Records label. It was released in 1999 and features performances by Frisell, Greg Leisz, Wayne Horvitz Viktor Krauss and Jim Keltner with a guest appearance by Ry Cooder on guitar....
, Blues Dream
Blues Dream

Blues Dream is the thirteenth album by Bill Frisell to be released on the Nonesuch Records label. It was released in 2001 and features performances by Frisell, Greg Leisz, Ron Miles Billy Drewes, Curtis Fowlkes, David Piltch and Kenny Wollensen....
 and The Intercontinentals
The Intercontinentals

The Intercontinentals is the sixteenth album by Bill Frisell to be released on the Nonesuch Records label. It was released in 2003 and features performances by Frisell, Sidiki Camara, Vinicius Cantuaria, Christos Govetas, Greg Leisz and Jenny Scheinman....
. Leisz has also worked extensively with Matthew Sweet since the early 1990s.

In January 2008, it was reported by Billboard that a new supergroup
Supergroup (music)

In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups." Supergroups tend to be short-lived, often lasting only for an album or two....
 octet tentatively named The Scrolls
The Scrolls

Works Progress Administration , formerly known under the working title The Scrolls, is an United States eight-piece Supergroup . The members of the octet are Sean Watkins , Sara Watkins , Glen Phillips , Benmont Tench , Luke Bulla , Greg Leisz , Pete Thomas , and Davey Faragher ....
 had formed. The octet is comprised of Leisz, Sean Watkins
Sean Watkins

Sean Charles Watkins , a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, is one third of the folk music band Nickel Creek, and one-half of the duo Fiction Family....
 (guitar), his sister Sara Watkins
Sara Watkins

Sara Ullrika Watkins is an American singer-songwriter and fiddler. Watkins debuted in 1989 as the fiddler of the progressive bluegrass band , Nickel Creek, which consists of herself and her elder brother, Sean Watkins, as well as mandolinist Chris Thile....
 (fiddle), Glen Phillips
Glen Phillips

Glen Phillips is a songwriter, lyricist, singer and guitarist. He is best known as the singer and songwriter of 1990s alternative rock group Toad the Wet Sprocket....
 (guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
, vocals), Benmont Tench
Benmont Tench

Benjamin Montmorency Tench, III an American keyboardist, best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, along with Tom Petty, Mike Campbell and Ron Blair of the current lineup....
 (piano), Luke Bulla (fiddle), Pete Thomas
Pete Thomas

Pete Thomas is best known as the longtime drummer for Elvis Costello....
 (drums), and Davey Faragher
Davey Faragher

Davey Faragher is an American bass guitarist from Redlands, CA. He is probably best known as a founding member of the band Cracker in the early 1990s, and for his work with The Imposters, the backing band for Elvis Costello since 2001....
 (bass). The group plans to have an album out by fall of this year.