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Lyle Workman
Born San Jose, California

Lyle Workman is an American guitarist, composer, session musician and music producer. His music has been widely distributed since his debut on the eponymous Bourgeois Tagg album in 1986,[1] and is currently best known for his work as composer and bandleader for the Superbad soundtrack.[2][3][4]

Workman is also credited as composer for the hit comedies Win Win, Get Him to the Greek, Yes Man, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The 40-Year-Old Virgin,[5] The Goods, and the Jon Favreau film Made.[6] He contributed on guitar and other instruments on several other soundtracks. His work on the Superbad soundtrack has earned critical acclaim.[7][8][9]

Workman released his first instrumental "solo" album, Purple Passages, in 1996, and was well reviewed[10] among musicians with XTC's Dave Gregory calling Workman "a musician of consummate skill, creativity and taste".[11] His second solo album, Tabula Rasa (2001), has also received rave reviews.[12][13] "Harmonic Crusader" was released in 2009.

Workman is also known to Todd Rundgren fans as the lead guitarist on Rundgren's albums Nearly Human and 2nd Wind and the ensuing tours. Beck's live audiences saw Workman perform as the lead guitarist on Beck's Midnight Vultures tours[14] from 1999 to 2001, and Workman toured with Sting[15] on 2006's Broken Music Tour, and performed with him at Live 8.

He has also worked extensively with Frank Black recording and touring, appearing on the records Teenager of the Year, The Cult of Ray, Frank Black and The Catholics, and is credited with "arranged by" credit on several songs on 2006's Fast Man Raider Man. Lyle has worked as a studio musician in Los Angeles on many rock and pop albums with artists Norah Jones, Sheryl Crow, Shakira, and They Might Be Giants to name a few.[16]

As a producer, Workman is credited on Dutch singer 'Ilse DeLange's record Incredible which, in Holland, featured several number one singles and multi-platinum sales. Workman produced DeLange's record "Next To Me" released in September 2010.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Bourgeois Tagg MP3 Downloads - Bourgeois Tagg Music Downloads - Bourgeois Tagg Music Videos - Bourgeois Tagg Pictures". MP3.com. http://www.mp3.com/artist/bourgeois-tagg/summary/. Retrieved 2012-01-17. 
  2. ^ "Lyle Workman Filmography - Yahoo! Movies". Movies.yahoo.com. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1802279033. Retrieved 2012-01-17. 
  3. ^ var authorId = "41858809" by Spence D.. "IGN: Superbad - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Review". Music.ign.com. http://music.ign.com/articles/811/811889p1.html. Retrieved 2012-01-17. 
  4. ^ "Superbad Soundtrack Brings Some Ironic Funk". Cinemablend.com. 2007-07-18. http://www.cinemablend.com/music/Superbad-Soundtrack-Brings-Some-Ironic-Funk-5382.html. Retrieved 2012-01-17. 
  5. ^ "Lyle Workman at". Hollywood.com. http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Lyle_Workman/3079397. Retrieved 2012-01-17. 
  6. ^ Made at the Internet Movie Database
  7. ^ Street - Science[dead link]
  8. ^ Fri., Aug. 10 2007 at 6:56 AM (2007-08-10). "Music & Art: All Shook Down". Blogs.sfweekly.com. http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2007/08/superbad_soundtrack_way_funkier_than_first_thought.php. Retrieved 2012-01-17. 
  9. ^ Superbad: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - JIVE Magazine Forums
  10. ^ Guitar Nine Records - "Purple Passages" Review Featured In Guitar Shop Magazine, October, 1996
  11. ^ Bitmunk: Album: Purple Passages by Lyle Workman[dead link]
  12. ^ Tabula Rasa, review by Alec A. Head, Review date: 10/2007 at Satan Stole My Teddybear
  13. ^ "LYLE WORKMAN - soulful prog rock with multi-textured guitarscapes - "EER-MUSIC.com aka Eclectic Earwig Reviews Music and More for You!"". Eer-music.com. http://eer-music.com/EER_music_reviews/LYLE_WORKMAN.html. Retrieved 2012-01-17. 
  14. ^ "Hijacked Flavors - Concert Info - October 3, 2000". Whiskeyclone.net. 2000-10-03. http://whiskeyclone.net/hijacked/concertinfo.php?concertID=503. Retrieved 2012-01-17. 
  15. ^ Sting.com exclusives.tours[dead link]
  16. ^ "Lyle Workman [Superbad]". Stranded In Stereo. http://www.strandedinstereo.com/film_workmaninterview.shtml. Retrieved 2012-01-17. 
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As Frank Black
Studio albums
Frank Black (1993) · Teenager of the Year (1994) · The Cult of Ray (1996) · Frank Black Francis (2004) · Honeycomb (2005) · Fast Man Raider Man (2006) · Christmass (2006)
Compilations
Oddballs (2000) · Frank Black 93–03 (2007)
Singles
"Los Angeles" (1993) · "Hang On to Your Ego" (1993) · "Frank Black" (1993) · "Headache" (1994) · "Men in Black" (1995) · "The Marsist" (1995) · "I Don't Want to Hurt You" (1996)
As Black Francis
Studio albums
Bluefinger (2007) · Svn Fngrs (2008) · The Golem (2010) · NonStopErotik (2010) · Abbabubba (2011) · Paley & Francis (2011)
Singles
Pixies
Studio albums
Surfer Rosa (1988) · Doolittle (1989) · Bossanova (1990) · Trompe le Monde (1991)
Extended plays
Come On Pilgrim (1987) · Pixies (2002)
Other albums
Singles
"Gigantic" (1988) · "Monkey Gone to Heaven" (1989) · "Here Comes Your Man" (1989) · "Velouria" (1990) · "Dig for Fire" (1990) · "Planet of Sound" (1991) · "Alec Eiffel" (1992) · "Head On" (1992) · "Debaser" (1997) · "Bam Thwok" (2004)
Frank Black and
the Catholics
Studio albums
Compilations
Singles
"All My Ghosts" (1998) · "I Gotta Move" (1999) · "Robert Onion" (2000) · "St. Francis Dam Disaster" (2001) · "Everything Is New" (2003) · "Nadine" (2003)
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Grand Duchy
Petits Fours (2009) · Lovesick (2009)
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