1. Ed Deane is a blues musician, playing the electric and acoustic guitar, and specialising in slide guitar and the lap steel guitar.
17 Facts About Ed Deane
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Ed Deane is highly regarded as a left-handed guitarist, preferring to play right-handed guitars upside down.
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Ed Deane started playing acoustic blues and slide guitar while at school.
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Ed Deane went on to replace Gary Moore in Skid Row, before joining Bees Make Honey and cutting an album with them, produced by Nick Lowe.
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Ed Deane then spent four years in France, mainly in Paris working with the Rock band Il Barritz, and doing writing and session work.
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Ed Deane was asked to join Frankie Miller, with whom he recorded and toured Europe, the UK and America.
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Ed Deane played on the soundtracks of the films Leaving Las Vegas and Serendipity.
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Ed Deane spent much of the 1990s working with blues diva Dana Gillespie, recording several albums with her.
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Ed Deane worked and toured with Dave Kelly, recording three albums, one of which featured John P Hammond.
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Ed Deane toured Germany with Paul Jones and The Blues Band, and then the UK, Europe and India with Dana Gillespie.
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Ed Deane appeared with Gillespie at the Mustique Blues Festival in the Caribbean, and played with her as Bob Dylan's opening act on the English leg of Dylan's 1997 tour.
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Ed Deane has recorded and played live gigs with Shane MacGowan.
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Ed Deane recorded with Chris and Mick Jagger on a tribute album to Cyril Davies.
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Ed Deane worked with Chris on two of his solo albums, and as a part of the Atcha Acoustic, toured America, Europe and India.
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Ed Deane recorded an album, Hurricane, with the boogie-woogie pianist, Ben Waters.
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In recent years, Ed Deane has recorded two albums with the Belfast songwriter Bap Kennedy.
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Ed Deane toured extensively with Kennedy, and together they have toured with Van Morrison, both as members of a band and as a duo.