Lee Clayton wrote "Ladies Love Outlaws" (from his first LP), recorded three well received albums for Capitol between 1978-1981 and then essentially vanished (a 1990 UK release of a live in Oslo CD, and a Dutch studio release in '96 being his only reappearances.) As another blogger noted in a tribute to Clayton, the guy's got no website and a pitiful Wiki bio given the strength of his recordings and the success other artists had in covering his songs. U2's Bono is quoted as saying that the only country singer that influenced him was "a pretty well unknown fellow named Lee Clayton". Others describe him as"sounding like a mix between Brakes, Nick Cave and Ray LaMontagne or as a precursor to Johnny Dodd. I don't know about that but I do know his second album, Border Affair, is a killer (the others strong as well). Chan Marshall of Cat Power recently released a version of his song "Silver Stallion" on her second covers CD (the Highwaymen also recorded it) and several months ago a 2-CD set entitled The Capitol Years was released on Acadia in the UK and is available an import through Amazon. He is alleged to be living in Nashville and performing occasionally. I love this guy.
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