Lyle Dean Workman is an American guitarist, composer, session and touring musician, and music producer.
12 Facts About Lyle Workman
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Lyle Workman's music has been widely distributed since his debut on the eponymous Bourgeois Tagg album in 1986, and is known for his work as composer and bandleader for the Superbad soundtrack.
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Lyle Workman has contributed on guitar and other instruments on several other soundtracks.
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Lyle Workman is known to Todd Rundgren fans as the lead guitarist on Rundgren's albums Nearly Human and 2nd Wind and the ensuing tours.
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Beck's live audiences saw Lyle Workman perform as the lead guitarist on Beck's Midnight Vultures tours from 1999 to 2001, and Lyle Workman toured with Sting on 2006's Broken Music Tour, and performed with him at Live 8.
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Lyle Workman is known for collaborating with Chad Fischer, the frontman of the American alternative rock band Lazlo Bane.
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Lyle Workman has co-written with Fischer two songs, "Buttercup" and "View From The Pavement", and played guitar on the band's debut album 11 Transistor.
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Later, Lyle Workman collaborated with Fischer again, co-writing and performing the song "Miserable Life" for the film Little Manhattan.
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Lyle Workman has worked extensively with Frank Black recording and touring, appearing on the records Teenager of the Year, The Cult of Ray, Frank Black and The Catholics, and Oddballs and is credited with "arranged by" credit on several songs on 2006's Fast Man Raider Man.
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Lyle Workman has worked as a studio musician in Los Angeles on many rock and pop albums with artists Sting, Michael Buble, Sarah McLachlan, Ziggy Marley, Norah Jones, Bryan Adams, Sheryl Crow, Shakira, and They Might Be Giants, to name a few.
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Lyle Workman produced DeLange's record "Next To Me" released in September 2010.
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Lyle Workman released his first instrumental "solo" album, Purple Passages, in 1996, and was well reviewed among musicians with XTC's Dave Gregory calling Lyle Workman "a musician of consummate skill, creativity and taste".