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Arlen Roth (born October 30, 1952 in New York, USA) is an American guitarist, recording artist, performer, tutor and author. His first solo album won the Montreux Critics' Award for Best Instrumental Album of the Year in 1978. He was a regular columnist for Guitar Player magazine from 1982 to 1992. He has performed and recorded with artists such as Bob Dylan, Danny Gatton, John Entwistle, John Prine, Kate Taylor, James Taylor, Livingston Taylor, Rick Wakeman, Paul Simon (as well as Simon and Garfunkel), Ry Cooder, David Lindley, Sonny Landreth, Levon Helm, Bill Kirchen, Duane Eddy, Steve Morse, Albert Lee and Phoebe Snow.〔(Endorsing Artists: Arlen Roth ) at the Dean Markley Strings website, (Accessed 12 August 2006)〕 Roth is a Telecaster enthusiast, and has written the book ''Masters of the Telecaster'', which details the techniques and licks of many famous Telecaster guitar players.〔(Masters of the Telecaster book description ) at JK Lutherie's website, (Accessed 12 August 2006)〕 As a solo artist Roth performs frequently with his younger daughter, Lexie Roth, a recording artist, performer and songwriter in her own right. He was greatly influenced by Clarence White of The Byrds' string bending style, but at the age of 14, he did not know White had invented a "B-string bender" for his Telecaster, so Roth developed a new style of doing this with fingers alone. He thus innovated many string-bending styles on the guitar, simulating a "pedal steel" guitar. He is also an innovator in the use of "harmonics" within guitar playing. ==Personal life== Roth lost both his wife, Deborah, and oldest daughter, Gillian MacKenzie Roth (b. 1983) in an auto accident in 1998. Gillian was a gifted actress and guitarist who had just signed to have her own Nickelodeon Show, "The Gunks", an all-girl band loosely based on "The Monkees". She recorded the theme for the show just 2 days before the accident. He is the son of The New Yorker cartoonist Al Ross, who turned 100 years of age on Oct.19, 2011. Al Ross died at the age of 100 in 2012. Ross was one of four Roth brothers all of whom became cartoonists. Arlen Roth's brother is noted artist and painter David Roth. Arlen Roth attended the High School of Music and Art in NYC from 1966-69 as an art student. He then studied at the Philadelphia College of Art from 1969 to 1971. His band, Steel lived with him, and would play in Woodstock, NY on weekends, where Roth was quickly discovered. In 1970, Steel put on the first "Woodstock Reunion" concert at Yasgur's Farm to commemorate the 1 year anniversary of the Woodstock festival in Bethel, NY, a small town Arlen lived in every summer since he was born. Soon after, he moved to Woodstock, NY, and began his career as a professional guitarist. He began to back-up in recording and touring with artists such as Happy and Artie Traum, Eric Andersen, John Herald, John Prine, Pete Seeger, Loudon Wainwright III, Tony Bird, Art Garfunkel, Paul Butterfield, Phoebe Snow, Helen Schneider, Don McLean and many more. He toured with the Bee Gees in 1974, Simon and Garfunkel in 1983, and Duane Eddy with Huey Lewis and the News. He has also released several solo albums, and performs with his own band, as a duet with his daughter, Lexie Roth, and as a solo act as well. Roth is also known as an innovator of slide guitar, and his first published book "Slide Guitar" was with Oak Publications when he was just 21 years old. He is planning a "Slide Guitar Summit" album, featuring duets with many other great slide guitar players, to be recorded in 2013. In 2012, Thank You Les, a Les Paul Tribute album and documentary was released with Roth performing ''Mr. Sandman'' and his daughter Lexie singing the Les Paul and Mary Ford classic, Vaya Con Dios. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arlen Roth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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