I will be appearing at:

THE FIFTH STREET CAFE AND WINE BAR
SUNDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 11
Outside on the Patio

5 pm till 9 pm

Original and Classic Songs, Guitar and Vocals

Directions: The Fifth Street Cafe is located on 5th Street in Kemah
Just before the entrance to the Boardwalk

Just off 146 before the entrance to the bridge
about a half mile from the Target and Home Depot on 518

Courtyard Cafe and Monster Musicals CD's will be available for sale!

Buy them at www.cdbaby.com/all/georgedouglaslee

I will also be appearing at the 5th Street Cafe on Sunday, June 25, 5 - 9 pm

George Douglas Lee

Performing Songwriter,

Fine Artist, Playwright and Comedian

Musical History and Evolution of the Courtyard Cafe CD: Next to the crumbling shell of the old Del Rey movie house on what used to be the bad side of 25th street in historic downtown Galveston is an anachronistic European chateau, called the Courtyard Café.

One rainy night George Lee walked into the newly opened café to play at an open mic. The cafe frequented by folkies, invoked the atmosphere of a mid-sixties coffee house. He quickly changed that with his high energy originals. He’d moved back to his home town, put down his ‘68 Telecaster, and armed with a Takamine EG-334BC, started playing, composing new songs and re-inventing older ones. This led to a series of weekly performances and a growing following. A packed Saturday gig inspired him to record the live performances.

“’COURTYARD CAFÉ’, the 2005 release from Galvestonian George Douglas Lee, features Lee live in a solo acoustic performance recorded at the Courtyard Café. Twelve tracks containing fourteen songs comprise this project that has Lee telling stories of life and love in his poignant style. Blues undertones with rock, pop, folk, and country influences make this a diverse album.

“Lee pens all the cuts on this album and is the sole performer on songs like “Street Corner Blues” and arguably the best cut, “Maybe Someday.” - mytexasmusic.com

When he first moved to the Island, George, ill, out of work and living in a third-rate efficiency, was inspired to write the opening song, “The Bottle Or The Gun”. He had been revisiting the blues on vintage records and wanted to do a classic rendition of a three-chord walk-down blues tune. He parked by the Seawall on a foggy winter’s day and the words began to flow. The whole thing was scribbled on a napkin in his car. “The ocean never rests, baby, the tide keeps rollin’ in, waves lick at the sandy beach, then roll back out again.” Yeah… It never rests. There was the loneliness that one can only feel on a bleak, gray day in a closed summer town. Listeners can taste the passion and join him on the edge in “Bittersweet Drive”, “Maybe Someday” and “Street Corner Blues.”

In 1972, while at Sam Houston State University, Lee began a musical career that took him throughout Texas and the southwest as front man for electric rock band Uncle Jak. Uncle Jak stayed together until 1975. During that time, Lee wrote songs, played lead and rhythm guitar, keyboards and bass. The group was one of the few at the time who were able to get booked playing original tunes.

With Galveston producer A.W. Marullo, he recorded three single records as a solo artist, including “Sweet & Brutal” and “Maybe I’m Fallin’”. His second single, “Elaine”, was in the top five on several Texas radio stations. Following the release of the third record, he formed the group Geo, playing originals and the newly coined “classic rock” tunes. With bass player Joe Alford (who went on to play with country singer Collin Raye), he entered an extremely creative and prolific period, writing over twenty-five new songs, many of which appeared on the album, “Made To Be Played”. That record released in 1982, was featured on Houston radio station K-101. “Geo” played frequently in Houston, Galveston, and throughout the southwest before disbanding in 1984.

Lee established “The Electric Theatre” in Sugar Land, where he wrote, directed, produced original plays, taught acting and performed onstage, in films and commercials.

The "MONSTER MUSICALS" CD had its origins in the 1992 production of "Frankenstein, The Monster Musical" at Fort Bend Community Theatre. This musical comedy version of the classic "Bride of Frankenstein", played to capacity audiences following its opening night, and inspired George to write
"The Wolf Who Cried Boy" and "Wolfbane" among many others. Those plays also appear in abbreviated "audiobook" format on "Monster Musicals".

Additionally, he has written and illustrated a number of children’s books. His screenplay adaptation of his play “Laughing Boy”, was produced as an independent film by Joe Grisaffi in 2002. It is currently available on DVD.

Lee writes a humor column, "One Day In A Row", for Galveston’s “Parrot” newspaper, as well as film reviews, book reviews and other articles. As a fine artist, he exhibits paintings, and has created "Ceilings On The Wall", a collection of individually signed and numbered pieces made from vintage stamped tin ceiling panels framed in century-old hardwood.