Ed Deane

Ed Deane
Background information
Birth name	Ed Deane
Genres	Blues
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Electric guitar, Slide guitar, Lap steel guitar, Acoustic guitar, Vocals
Years active	1968 to present
Website	Ed Deane
Notable instruments
Duesenberg Lap Steel Guitar

Ed Deane is an Irish guitarist with a career spanning six decades, from the late 1960s to the present day. He is a blues musician, playing the electric and acoustic guitar, and specialising in Slide guitar and the Lap steel guitar.

Also of note is that Deane is highly regarded as a left-handed guitarist, preferring to play his guitars both left-handed and upside down.

Deane started playing acoustic blues and slide guitar while at school. His repertoire at the time drew mainly from the Delta blues of Son House, Robert Johnson and Skip James.

At 16 years of age, he formed the band Blueshouse. Their regular blues sessions in Slatterys were regularly joined by Gary Moore and Phil Lynott, and Blueshouse played alongside many visiting bluesmen of the time, such as Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Fred McDowell, Champion Jack Dupree, Johnny Shines and Juke Boy Bonner, among others.

Moving to London, he played with Granny's Intentions, for a period, and then joining Terry and Gay Woods as guitarist with the Woods Band, touring Europe and recording one album in 1971 – The Woods Band.

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.

He then spent four years in France, mainly in Paris working with the Rock band Il Barritz, and doing writing and session work.

Returning to London, he recorded with Graham Parker and the Rumour, The Fallen Angels (Pretty Things) and co-founded Juice on the Loose with Ron Kavana and Geraint Watkins. Juice toured Germany as the backing band for Alexis Korner and Chris Farlowe. They also gigged extensively and recorded an album for Ace records.

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