Биография

MUSICIAN/SONGWRITER/PERFORMER Musically, Stroud has shared the stage with the top in the business, including Slash, Journey, Jonny Lang, Dave Mason, James Cotton, Steve Stevens, Alice Cooper, Steven Stills, Tommy Shaw, Robbie Krieger, Blues Traveler, Tesla, Jakob Dylan, Randy Bachman, Chicago, Montgomery Gentry, Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Roots. Revered worldwide for his iconic harmonica playing, Les’s songwriting style runs an eclectic gambit, from art-folk-roots rock to contemporary art rock. He has written all the theme songs for his TV series and scored several independent films. He has won numerous regional music festivals, recorded four CDs (one in collaboration with the Canadian hit makers the Northern Pikes). His third CD, Wonderful Things, and fourth CD, Off The Grid, include feature documentary films entitled The Barn Sessions. He released Bittern Lake in 2018, will be releasing his long awaited Mother Earth album in 2019 and is currently recording his 7th and 8th albums with rock legend Producer Mike Clink (GnR’s, Aerosmith). Mother Earth is an art rock genre album and includes a solo from Slash of Guns N’ Roses fame on the lead single “One Giant Farm” as well as a feature solo from Steve Vai on the song “Mother Earth”. He performed at the prestigious Green Ball for Barak Obama in Washington, DC where he met Vice President Joe Biden and was the MC for the inaugural Oceana Ball in New York with Susan Rockefeller.