Andy Fairweather Low

Producer, songwriter, guitarist, singer, pop idol, session musician. Andy Fairweather Low has done it all. From Wales, he rocketed to fame in the late 1960s as front man of the band Amen Corner, who initially started playing blues and jazz but morphed into one of the biggest hit bands of the day. After scoring a Number 1 hit in 1969 with (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice, he formed a new band Fair Weather, with Blue Weaver, Dennis Bryon, Clive Taylor and Neil Jones, who had a Top 10 hit with Natural Sinner. He then launched a solo career, releasing four albums (Spider Jiving, La Booga Rooga, Be Bop n' Holla, Mega Shebang) during the 1970s and had hit singles with Reggae Tune (1974) and Wide-Eyed and Legless (1975). He then found regular work as a session guitarist and backing singer, working with the likes of Roy Wood, Leo Sayer, Richard & Linda Thompson, Joe Satriani and Gerry Rafferty and played on The Who albums It's Hard and Who Are You and later toured with Pete Townshend. In 1985 he toured America with Roger Waters promoting the album The Pros & Cons Of Hitchhiking and has worked regularly with Waters ever since, through the 1990s he linked up with Eric Clapton, another partnership that's endured for many years. In 2002 he played with various guitar greats like Jeff Beck and Peter Green on the John Lee Hooker tribute album One More Car, One More Rider and in 2005 joined Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. The following year he released Sweet Soulful Music, his first album for 26 years and went on to form a new band, The Low Riders, with Paul Beavis, Dave Bronze and Richard Dunn. In 2011 he played with Kate Bush on her album 50 Words For Snow and sang on the single Wild Man. In 2013 he released a new album with the Low Riders, Zone-O-Tone.