Lenny Solomon's Biography

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Lenny Solomon’s style has been compared to early Bob Dylan, Guy Clark, and Jerry Jeff Walker. Solomon began his career in the late 1960s. A fixture in the old Idler Coffeehouse in Harvard Square, Cambridge, he regularly performed there on Friday nights for over eight years. The Idler was a training ground for such luminaries as Geoff Bartley, Paul Rishell, Spider John Koerner, and Ric Ocasek. During his years as a solo performer he shared bills with many name performers such as Chris Smither, Carolyn Hester, Bonnie Raitt, and Spider John.

For many years music provided a backdrop for his life. From the 1980s through the mid-1990s Solomon continued to write songs but rarely performed in public. He chose rather to raise his family (now grown) and to work in environmental research at Harvard University.

In 1997 Solomon decided to get back into live performing and formed a folk/country band appropriately enough called Solomon. Performing his original material, the Solomon Band released three CD’s, one of which, Not Life Threatening, is still available. Not Life Threatening received very good reviews and garnered airplay on over 30 public and college radio stations.

Solomon’s latest CD is a solo effort titled, Armando’s Pie. This fourteen-song album of original tunes written between 2002 and 2004, was released on July 4, 2004. A recent review to be published in Rambles.net states, “The 14 tracks on this CD are all excellent and diverse enough to ensure that any listener will find a few that could become favorites. Solomon has the wisdom of that other person of that name. He gives us songs to make us think but never lets the message get in the way of the fact that to transmit any message, the medium must grab and hold our attention.”