Lee Ranaldo
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Lee M. Ranaldo (b. February 3 1956) is an American singer and guitarist, probably best known as a cofounder of the rock band Sonic Youth.
Ranaldo was born in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, and graduated from Binghamton University. He has one son, Cody Linn Ranaldo, and is married to the experimental artist Leah Singer, with whom he has performed many live installation pieces with improvised music.
Among Ranaldo's solo records are Dirty Windows, a collection of spoken texts with music, Amarillo Ramp (for Robert Smithson), pieces for the guitar, and Scriptures of the Golden Eternity. His books include Bookstore, Road Movies, and Jrnls80s. A full-length book of writings on Moroccan travels and music, as well as a book of new poems, Lengths & Breaths, will be out soon. Recent visual work has been included in exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery in London, the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art and Mercer Union in Toronto.
Ranaldo has produced albums for artists including Babes in Toyland, You Am I, Deity Guns, and Dutch art rock-ensemble KLEG. He also released a book of his poetry (published by Soft Skull Press), and has edited a volume of tour journals from the 1995 Lollapalooza Tour written by Thurston Moore, Beck, Stephen Malkmus, Courtney Love, and others. Ranaldo worked with jazz drummer William Hooker on improvised music, and reading and improvising poetry.
In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo and Thurston Moore, of Sonic Youth, the 33rd and 34th best guitarists of all time.
Ranaldo usually uses Fender Jazzmaster electric guitars, with radically altered tunings, and modifications.
| Sonic Youth |
| Kim Gordon | Thurston Moore | Lee Ranaldo | Steve Shelley |
| Jim Sclavunos | Richard Edson | Bob Bert | Jim O'Rourke | Coco Gordon Moore |
| Discography |
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| Albums: Sonic Youth | Confusion Is Sex | Sonic Death | Bad Moon Rising | EVOL | Sister | The Whitey Album | Daydream Nation | Goo | Dirty | Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star | Screaming Fields of Sonic Love | Washing Machine | Made in USA | A Thousand Leaves | [[SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century]] | SYR5 | NYC Ghosts & Flowers | Murray Street | Sonic Nurse | Rather Ripped |
| Extended plays: Kill Yr Idols | TV Shit | [[SYR1: Anagrama]] | [[SYR2: Slaapkamers Met Slagroom]] | [[SYR3: Invito Al Ĉielo]] | Silver Session for Jason Knuth |
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