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Topic: You want more? I got a million of em' |
Gerald Ross
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2006 6:24 pm |
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Ok, here's three more.
Gather around children, pull up a chair and listen in - they don't make music like this anymore.
Here is a cut from Homer & Jethro's LP 'Playing It Straight' (c. 1959). Unfortunately this CD is out of print. Sure... Jethro on the mandolin is hot as hell, but listen to Homer on the rhythm guitar - he is the heart and pulse of the song.
I Want To Be Happy - Homer & Jethro
You guys know this cut. It' Homer & Jethro, JB and Chet Atkins. It's from the still available CD 'Jazz From The Hills'. (c.1953) It features Homer & Jethro, Chet Atkins and Jerry Byrd. They called themselves the Country All Stars.
Again - listen to Homer on the guitar!
First solo - Jethro
Second solo - JB (steel)
Third solo - Chet Atkins
Fourth solo - Jethro
Stompin At The Savoy - The Country All Stars
Buy this disk - now!
The Country All Stars
Here are two of my favorite guitarists - Carl Kress & Dick McDonough. These two guys were the top studio guitarists in NYC during the 1920's and early 30's.
Here's an acoustic guitar duet from the early 30's from the still available CD: Pioneers Of The Jazz Guitar. Buy this disk!
Chicken A La Swing - Carl Kress & Dick McDonough
Enjoy the weekend folks!
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Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'
CEO, CIO, CFO - UkeTone Records
Gerald's Fingerstyle Guitar Website
Board of Directors Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association
[This message was edited by Gerald Ross on 01 December 2006 at 06:35 PM.] |
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 1 Dec 2006 9:27 pm
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GERALD: THANX for the great excursion back into time. What a great couple of moments to visit such wonderful artists making the kind of music we mostly, all love.
You're a great guy! |
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Chuck Wilson
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2006 9:56 pm
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Gerald,
It's tasty players like you that can find all this good stuff from these older greats!
Thanks for your diligence in feretting out some fine tunes.
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Jeff Au Hoy
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Honolulu, Hawai'i
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Posted 1 Dec 2006 11:33 pm
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| Interesting steel on Savoy... I thought JB was a melody guy. |
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c c johnson
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killeen,tx usa * R.I.P.
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Posted 2 Dec 2006 4:04 am
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| Jeff, Jerry usually played what the song called for. He told me that as he was planning to move to HI he asked Kelii, Abe,Barney and others for advice and was told that the melody must be prominent in Haw style playing. I think all of us old time JB fans noticed the difference in his style when he moved to HI cc |
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 2 Dec 2006 4:38 am
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Cool cuts, Gerald. I've owned 'em all for years except the Carl Kress. "Playin it Straight & It Ain't Necessarily Square" were both available in the early 90s on one Japanese reisue CD - now, sadly out of print. Fantastic! The JB cuts were recorded in Nashville when they were killing time between sessions at RCA. Funny thing is, JB wrote me once that he hated that stuff. Go figure. I think it's pretty good! Carl Kress later played in a duo with George Barnes.Kress started on tenor banjo and used an unusal hybrid tuning that gave him a very rich sound for chordal playing:
Carl Kress tuning:
6th string - Bb
5th string - F
4th string - D
3rd string - G
2nd string - A
1st string - D
Homer Haynes was super. Alan Reuss is another unsung hero of rhythm guitar.
There's an overpriced copy of "It ain't Neccessarily Square" on eBay now:
Auction on eBay. [This message was edited by Andy Volk on 02 December 2006 at 12:52 PM.] |
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 2 Dec 2006 11:11 am
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I'll second the "Pioneers of Jazz Guitar" recomendation. A nice introduction to jazz and swing plectrum guitar style and some of the most well known players.
I'd just like to add another favorite of mine in this genre--"April Kisses" by Bucky Pizzarelli. A sort of tribute album to his heroes, it's just the man and his Benedetto 7 string archtop playing close solo renditions of classic chord-melody pieces made famous by Lang, Kress etal.
(dang, and just when I thought my archtop GAS was in remission . . .)
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