Producer, songwriter, guitarist, singer, pop star, and session musician: Andy Fairweather Low has done it all. Born in Ystrad Mynach, Wales on August 2, 1948, he rocketed to fame in the late 1960s as front man for the band Amen Corner, who initially started playing blues and jazz but morphed into one of the biggest hit bands of the day. After scoring a number 1 hit in 1969 with “(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice,” he formed a new band Fair Weather, with Blue Weaver, Dennis Bryon, Clive Taylor and Neil Jones, and scored a Top 10 hit with “Natural Sinner.” He then launched a solo career, recording four albums - Spider Jiving (1974), La Booga Rooga (1975), Be Bop n' Holla (1976), and Mega Shebang (1980) - during the 1970s and had hit singles with “Reggae Tune” (1974) and “Wide-Eyed and Legless” (1975). He then found regular work as a session guitarist and backing singer, working with the likes of Roy Wood, Leo Sayer, Richard & Linda Thompson, Joe Satriani, and Gerry Rafferty. Andy Fairweather Low appeared on The Who albums Who Are You (1978) and It's Hard (1982) and later toured with Pete Townshend. In 1985, he toured America with Roger Waters promoting the album The Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking and worked regularly with Waters until 2008. In the 1990s, he linked up with Eric Clapton, another partnership that's endured for many years. Andy Fairweather Low played with various guitar greats like Jeff Beck and Peter Green on the John Lee Hooker tribute album From Clarksdale to Heaven and, in 2005, he joined Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. The following year, he released Sweet Soulful Music, his first solo album for 26 years and went on to form a new band, The Low Riders, with Paul Beavis, Dave Bronze and Richard Dunn. In 2011, Andy Fairweather Low played with Kate Bush on her album 50 Words for Snow and sang on the single “Wild Man.” In 2013, he released an album with the Low Riders, Zone-O-Tone. He continued to work with Clapton while also continuing to release solo albums including Lockdown Live (2021) and Flang Dang (2023). In 2025, he dedicated an album of blues covers, electric and acoustic, The Invisible Bluesman.
