2010
Les Paul Award:
Lindsey Buckingham
Named for one of the industry's most revered personalities, the Les Paul Award was created in 1991 to honor individuals or institutions that have set the highest standards of excellence in the creative application of recording technology.
The prodigiously
talented Lindsey Buckingham, the singer/songwriter,
multi-instrumentalist  and producer behind
the most successful lineup of Fleetwood
Mac—as well as
a sterling solo career—is a natural
choice for the Les Paul Award honor.
Lindsey Buckingham's
career began to take off when he and
Stevie Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac’s
core lineup of drummer Mick Fleetwood,
bassist John McVie and keyboardist/singer
Christine McVie in early 1974. The former
blues band, with the addition of "Buckingham
Nicks," immediately morphed into a
pop hit-making wonder. The group’s
eponymous album, produced by Keith Olsen,
contained smash singles including Buckingham’s “Monday
Morning,” “World Turning” and “I’m
So Afraid.”
However it would
be their next album, 1977’s Rumours,
that would launch the group into the
pop stratosphere, propelled by Lindsey’s
tunes, “Go Your
Own Way” and “Second Hand News.” This
time, the band produced—along with
Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut—with
Buckingham taking an increasingly active
role in the studio, spending hundreds of
hours crafting the songs and arrangements.
Rumours remains one of the best selling
discs of all time.
Over the next
several years, Buckingham was the principal
producer on all of Fleetwood Mac’s
projects, including the experimental
double-album, Tusk, Mirage and Tango
in the Night. In the early ’80s,
Buckingham launched his solo career with
Law and Order, which spawned the Top
Ten hit “Trouble.” Other
solo hits included “Go Insane” and “Holiday
Road.”
Buckingham’s career has continued
to flourish—his critically acclaimed
Under the Skin came out in 2006
and was followed by the exceptional DVD, Live
at the Bass Performance Hall. His latest
release, “Gift
of Screws”, came out on September
16, 2008, which will be followed by his
new solo project, scheduled for release
in early 2011. |
2010
Lindsey Buckingham
Past recipients:
2008 Ray
Benson
2007 Al Kooper
2006
Steve Miller
2005 David Byrne
2004 Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
2003 Bruce
Springsteen
2002 Robbie
Robertson
2001 Steely Dan
2000 Paul McCartney
1999 Sting
1998 Neil Young
1997 Stevie Wonder
1996 Brian Wilson
1995 Alan Parsons
1994 Herbie Hancock
1993 Peter Gabriel
1992 Bob Clearmountain
1991 Bob Ludwig
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