Bryan Lee

Like so many other musicians in New Orleans, guitarist, singer and songwriter Bryan Lee came to the Crescent City from somewhere else. But he carefully honed and refined his craft in the city's bars for many years until he became a New Orleans institution. He played at 25 of the prestigious New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festivals, marking his 25th year at the springtime festival in 2009. Lee was born Bryan Lee Kumbalek in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. In his youth, he listened to WLAC in Nashville, and became enamored with the sounds of Muddy Waters, Elmore James, B.B. King, Howlin...