Swimming Bell & Bobby Lee - Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds

Bobby Lee

Bobby Lee trades in a wide screen brand of cosmic country-folk, full of space and pawn shop guitars. There are touches of JJ Cale’s analogue Americana, the swampy groove of Tony Joe White and Richard Thompson’s sinewy, modal guitar work. Amps hum in the warm afternoon sun, kids and dogs snooze on the grass and broken drum machines keep time with the universe…

Bobby released his debut album, Shakedown in Slabtown, in August 2020, on his own Natural Histories imprint, which Mojo Magazine described as “word of mouth sensation amongst discerning heads.” It was swiftly followed by Origin Myths in March 2021, released on the legendary Tompkins Square Records, becoming album of the week on Huey Morgan’s 6Music show and gaining support from BBC’s Late Junction, No Depression, The Guardian, NTS and WFMU. His collaboration, “Walking With Trees”, a collaboration with Mia Doi Todd, was released in September 2021  via Re:Warm. His third album Endless Skyways was released  June 2023  via Tompkins Square. 

Swimming Bell

"Like folk-era Sharon Van Etten, Meg Baird and Rosali; check Schottland building 1988 and Love Liked You to the most elegant crescendos." 
- MOJO Magazine 

"Lush, Laurel Canyon scenes given a 21st century makeover" 
- Clash Magazine

“An intriguing, experimental and at times hypnotic new voice in the world of alt-folk” 
- Folk Radio UK