As wall as another guitar player:Alan Parker!
― stet, where is thy Zing? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 April 2017 15:49 (seven years ago) link
I was thinking baout this thread recently upon seeing a bunch of stuff with Nile in it, acting as a celebrity in his own right (again), which is only right and proper. No one to add, but I'm glad to see the thread is still alive.
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 May 2017 16:33 (seven years ago) link
Richard Tee!
― Dominique, Thursday, 25 May 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
Concertmaster Sid Page!
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 27 May 2017 02:32 (seven years ago) link
Al Viola!
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 May 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
Don Peake!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbOmf0MXHZQ
― v. s. rupaul (unregistered), Friday, 28 December 2018 03:59 (five years ago) link
Bob Bushnell!
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 11:40 (five years ago) link
The Ron Hicklin Singers!
― The Hillbilly Chespirito (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 September 2019 04:52 (four years ago) link
Elliott Randall!
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 December 2019 04:26 (four years ago) link
Chuck Berghofer!Dick Romoff!
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 December 2019 04:47 (four years ago) link
Vinnie Zummo!
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 January 2020 11:04 (four years ago) link
thundercat!
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 9 January 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
Bob Glaub!
― How I Wrote Neuroplastic Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
Let's Remember Some Session Guys
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 7 June 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
He's probably on here already, but I got the Reggie Young comp Guitar Session Star last year, and it is almost as great as it could be (no "Skinny Legs and All" because already on a prev Reggie comp from these guys, no Box Tops "Cry Like A Baby" because another Box Tops on here I guess, no BJ Thomas "Hooked On A Feeling" because fuckin whyyyy) and anyway it still kills:https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71VT2ilrb5L._SL1200_.jpg
1. Slip, Slip, Slippin' in - Eddie Bond & His Stompers 2. Carol - Bill Black's Combo 3. A Touch of the Blues - Bobby Bland 4. Dream Baby - Jerry & Reggie 5. I'm Movin' on - the Box Tops 6. The Champion Pt. 1 - Willie Mitchell 7. Meet Me in Church - Solomon Burke 8. Chicken Crazy - Joe Tex 9. In the Pocket - King Curtis & the King Pins 10. More Love - James Carr 11. Don't Forget About Me - Dusty Springfield 12. Stranger in My Own Home Town - Elvis Presley 13. I Wanna Roo You - Jackie de Shannon 14. Drift Away - Dobie Gray 15. Rock 'N' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life) - Sonny Curtis 16. Victim of Life's Circumstances - Delbert McClinton 17. Lover Please - Billy Swan 18. Morning Glory - James & Bobby Purify 19. Cocaine - J.J. Cale 20. I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink - Merle Haggard 21. The Highwayman - the Highwaymen Aka Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson 22. Griselda - Natalie Merchant 23. Whenever You Come Around - Little Milton 24. Where Do We Go from Here - Waylon Jennings
― dow, Monday, 8 June 2020 02:52 (four years ago) link
Also Eddie Hinton! singer-songwriter-arranger-producer-hired-gun-picker=definitive studio rat in his lifetime, perhaps better recognized as songwriter since, but prob not
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Z-dy6fnSL._SL1205_.jpg1. Breakfast in Bed - Dusty Springfield 2. Down in Texas - Oscar Toney JR 3. Cover Me - Jackie Moore 4. A Little Bit Salty - Bobby Womack 5. Sure As Sin - Candi Staton 6. 300 Pounds of Hongry - Tony Joe White 7. Masquerade - Don Varner 8. Always David - the Sweet Inspirations 9. Poor Mary Has Drowned - Brick Wall 10. It's All Wrong But It's Alright - Eddie Hinton 11. Help Me Make It (Power of a Woman's Love) - Mink Deville 12. Save the Children - Cher 13. Every Natural Thing - Aretha Franklin 14. If I Had Let You in - the Box Tops 15. Satisfaction Guaranteed - Judy White 16. Standing on the Mountain - Percy Sledge 17. I Got the Feeling - the Amazing Rhythm Aces 18. Home for the Summer - the Hour Glass Featuring Greg and Duane Allman 19. Lay It on Me - Gwen McCrae 20. People in Love - Lou Johnson 21. Where You Come from - Bonnie Bramlett 22. Seventeen Year Old Girl - Mickey Buckins & the New Breed 23. Love Waits for No Man - Al Johnson 24. Where's Eddie - Lulu
― dow, Monday, 8 June 2020 02:59 (four years ago) link
Harvey Mason!
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Monday, 22 June 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
Good James Burton interview, 31 minutes---stream, download, or read:https://www.npr.org/2019/09/03/757066866/elvis-guitarist-james-burton-i-went-professional-when-i-was-14
― dow, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 00:47 (four years ago) link
Idk where else to put this, but I was looking at records in an antique mall the other day, and the first record was a Stanley Turrentine one with Wilton Felder on bass (Up Front), and the next was a Wilton Felder record as a leader on sax. If I hadn't already known a little bit about him, I definitely would have been intrigued.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 11 January 2021 15:01 (three years ago) link
There's really something awesome about guys who are session aces on totally different instruments. Like, I just learned that Charlie McCoy, best known for being the harmonica player on tons of stuff like "The Boxer," or playing guitar on lots of Dylan stuff, also played sax on "Pretty Woman." (I also learned in the process that "Pretty Woman" apparently has sax, buried though it may be.)
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 January 2021 15:18 (three years ago) link
G.E. Smith is a great guitar player, of course, but I really like the way he tells a story https://t.co/Ewl0SoGm1H— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) May 21, 2021
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 May 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
RIP Roger Hawkins
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 21 May 2021 22:13 (three years ago) link
:(
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 May 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
I mean I already knew but was already thinking about this earlier today.
― Working in the POLL Mine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 May 2021 22:26 (three years ago) link
omg the current episode of cocaine & rhinestones (s2 e3), about the nashville a-team, is fanfuckingtastic and absolute required listening for anyone on this thread or anyone who's a fan of
grady martin!chip young!pete drake!lloyd green!floyd cramer!charlie mccoy!the jordanaires!buddy harman!etc!
https://cocaineandrhinestones.com/nashville-a-team
(also, this appears to be the first mention of chip young on this thread!)
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 29 May 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
Andrew “Mike” Terry!
― Rich Valley Girl, Poor Valley Girl (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 03:56 (three years ago) link
RIP (never mentioned on this thread) kenny malone! :(
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 27 August 2021 02:57 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/vwp9iNq.jpg
― calstars, Tuesday, 7 September 2021 00:03 (three years ago) link
This is a good interview with 'cousin' Kenny Vaughn, pretty wide array of musicians referenced in the low key long talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb4JKW4bs7M
― earlnash, Monday, 27 September 2021 04:26 (two years ago) link
Hah, came here to mention the cocaine & rhinestones episode about the Nashville A-Team and see FCC gave ‘‘em all a shout out last year. Seconded.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 02:35 (two years ago) link
Yeah, that's a good one. He's so tendentious and cranky sometimes, yet deeply knowledgeable. Fun.
― umami dearest (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 06:25 (two years ago) link
Hugh McCracken!
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 6 January 2005 03:58 (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Scott beat me to it, 17 years ago. Still, on this side of the Atlantic we have...
Hugh Burns!
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 08:20 (two years ago) link
Just noticed that I've been reading and/or posting in this thread for one third of my life.
Not my adult life. not my online life. My actual human life.
― umami dearest (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 08:50 (two years ago) link
RIP hargus "pig" robbins :(
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 30 January 2022 22:34 (two years ago) link
RIP, person I thought was....
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 January 2022 22:36 (two years ago) link
Carl Fortina!
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 January 2022 23:36 (two years ago) link
Andy Stein!
― Don't Renege On (Our Dub) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 01:28 (two years ago) link
Al Perkins!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 02:38 (two years ago) link
Carl Lynch!
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 19:23 (two years ago) link
Dennis Coffey was a member of the Funk Brothers, who were pretty tied to the studio as a whole, but even before his solo hit, "Scorpio," he would just go a little ways over from Motown to a local club, for a regular gig in an organ trio, resulting, for instance, in the amaaazing set recorded in '68, released by Omnivore in 2018 as One Night at Morey's. in 2019, Omnivore put out Live at Baker's, recorded in 2006, and the Detroit Music Factory label issued Down By The River in 2019: both solid, distinctive takes on jazz, not exciting in the same way as the 60s cosmic funk of Morey's, but very enjoyable.wiki sez:
...as a member of the Funk Brothers studio band, Coffey played on dozens of recordings for Motown Records, and introduced a hard rock guitar sound to Motown record producer Norman Whitfield's recordings, including distortion, Echoplex tape-loop delay, and wah-wah: most notably heard on "Cloud Nine", "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)", and "Psychedelic Shack" by The Temptations. He played on numerous other hit records of the era: Edwin Starr's "War", Diana Ross & The Supremes' "Someday We'll Be Together", and Freda Payne's "Band of Gold".In 1971, Coffey recorded "Scorpio" which was a million selling instrumental single that peaked in the US at number nine on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart and at number six on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] The instrumental track featured the former Motown "funk brother", Bob Babbitt on bass. On January 8, 1972 Coffey became the first white artist to perform on the television show Soul Train, playing "Scorpio".[3] "Scorpio" received a gold disc awarded by the Recording Industry Association of America on December 9, 1971.[4] ...In 2004, he published a memoir, Guitars, Bars and Motown Superstars.In 2008, he co-produced the Carl Dixon sessions at Studio A, Dearborn Heights, Michigan. Four tracks were recorded featuring some of the Funk Brothers including Uriel Jones, Bob Babbitt, Coffey and Ray Monette, plus other distinguished Detroit session musicians...,,,Along with Mike Theodore, Coffey discovered the folk-rock singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, who is the subject of the 2012 Oscar-winning film Searching for Sugar Man in which Coffey appears. Coffey played lead guitar on Rodriguez's first album Cold Fact (1970).
In 1971, Coffey recorded "Scorpio" which was a million selling instrumental single that peaked in the US at number nine on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart and at number six on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] The instrumental track featured the former Motown "funk brother", Bob Babbitt on bass. On January 8, 1972 Coffey became the first white artist to perform on the television show Soul Train, playing "Scorpio".[3] "Scorpio" received a gold disc awarded by the Recording Industry Association of America on December 9, 1971.[4] ...In 2004, he published a memoir, Guitars, Bars and Motown Superstars.
In 2008, he co-produced the Carl Dixon sessions at Studio A, Dearborn Heights, Michigan. Four tracks were recorded featuring some of the Funk Brothers including Uriel Jones, Bob Babbitt, Coffey and Ray Monette, plus other distinguished Detroit session musicians...
,,,Along with Mike Theodore, Coffey discovered the folk-rock singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, who is the subject of the 2012 Oscar-winning film Searching for Sugar Man in which Coffey appears. Coffey played lead guitar on Rodriguez's first album Cold Fact (1970).
Got a bunch of other albums too, incl. on Westbound (hopefully some P-Funk involvement on those).
― dow, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 20:38 (two years ago) link
Harold Bradley!
― budo jeru, Saturday, 10 June 2023 01:52 (one year ago) link
RIP Bobby Eli
― that's not my post, Sunday, 20 August 2023 23:25 (one year ago) link
In 2011, Daryl Sanders gets the word from "all but one" of the surviving local A-listees who played on Blonde On Blonde---& made Galileo look like a Boy Scout, too much man, let it all hang out:
https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/looking-back-on-bob-dylans-i-blonde-on-blonde-i-the-record-that-changed-nashville/article_c17cc27e-b6e4-5794-901c-e2e7ce4c5cb9.html
― dow, Monday, 21 August 2023 00:59 (one year ago) link
Maybe not the perfect thread for this, but today I learned about Barry Miles, who released a record as a 14 year old drum prodigy on Charlie Parker's record label (!), featuring his original bebop tunes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEqgfqTy-Mw
Then he switched to piano, and made fusion records with his *14 year old littler brother on drums* playing like Tony Williams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIZ_mEdhBs8
Then he was Roberta Flack's music director during the '80s/'90s, with his brother on drums sometimes I think. And apparently his brother Terry Silverlight is a very successful tv composer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Silverlight
Look at them go...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzaMjBfUvec
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 16:01 (ten months ago) link
https://immediatefamilyfilm.com/“I had been hesitant to make a follow up to "The Wrecking Crew". But when I was approached with the idea of "The Immediate Family", I didn't think twice. The Immediate Family consists of Danny 'Kootch' Kortchmar Guitar/Vocal, Leland Sklar Bass, Russ Kunkel on Drums, Waddy Wachtel Guitar/Vocal and Steve Postell Guitar/Vocal.”
― brimstead, Friday, 19 January 2024 23:04 (eight months ago) link
Oh right.
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 January 2024 23:06 (eight months ago) link
A friend showed me this, which is pretty interesting, though the interviewer looks like a distracting cross between Paul Williams and George Lucas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zpTY20TL44
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 January 2024 23:15 (eight months ago) link
Kunkel is okay but not revelatory. Wachtel is a legend just for his hairdo.
But Lee Muthaflippin Sklar? That dude gives me a frisson of gratitude every time I reflect on our collective good fortune that we get to co-exist with him. This story alone solidifies his place among the GOATs, where he put a non-functioning "shimmer" switch on his bass.
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 January 2024 23:39 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6lEX0guChs
Yes, Lee Sklar seems like a great guy.
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 January 2024 09:59 (eight months ago) link