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Katie Lee (born October 23, 1919 in Tucson, Arizona) is an Arizona folk singer, writer, actress, photographer and environmental activist.〔(Damnation )〕 She graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. After that, she went on to study with two of the most successful folksingers of the 1940s, Burl Ives and Josh White. After joining a rafting trip in the Grand Canyon she became a regular on river trips on the Colorado River and joined the opposition to the construction of Glen Canyon Dam. In September and October 1955 she and〔(Special Collections & Archives )〕 Tad Nichols and Frank Wright traveled thru- and documented parts of the Glen Canyon that later were to be submerged. ==Artist and author== Her early albums of folk music, ''Life is Just a Bed of Neuroses'' (1960) and ''Songs of Couch and Consultation'' (1957) are long out of print, but six more recent CDs are still available.〔(Welcome to the real Katie Lee web site... | MUSIC )〕 She has also released three videos, including ''Love Song to Glen Canyon'' (DVD, 2007). In 1964, Lee released an album on Folkways Records, entitled, ''Folk Songs of the Colorado River.'' In the 1980s she recorded a cassette-only release ''Colorado River Songs'' consisting of old songs popular among river runners on the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon, and some original compositions. This release was hailed by Edward Abbey and David Foreman among others. ''Colorado River Songs'' was expanded to include more songs and re-released in 1997 on CD. She has also released ''Glen Canyon River Journeys'' on CD, which mixes music and spoken word commentary, and is featured on the 2005 Smithsonian Folkways compilation album, ''Songs and Stories from Grand Canyon.'' She has also written three books,''Sandstone Seduction,'' ''Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle'' and ''All My Rivers Are Gone''. ''Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle'' is a study of the music, stories, and poetry of the American cowboy. It was also recorded as an album. ''Sandstone Seduction'', a memoir, relates her continuing love affair with desert rivers and canyons, and reveals her Lady Godiva-style bicycle ride through downtown Jerome, Arizona, where she lives. October 1, 2011 Katie Lee was inducted into the Arizona Music Hall of Fame.〔http://verdenews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=43932〕 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「Katie Lee (singer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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