Essential Chet Atkins, The - Chet Atkins

Advantages: Great guitar, good jazz, relaxing
Disadvantages: few

...Martin Taylor is one of the - if not the - best jazz guitarists in the world. And that is not me talking, it is as voted, repeatedly, by jazz fans. He came to fame when he released his first album, "Taylor Made", in 1978 and was invited to tour with the great Stefan Grapelli, a partnership which continued through the 1980s. Taylor played on a number of albums with Stefan Grapelli but also went on to release several albums himself, some with his own band and others mainly solo. He has also worked with a number of other great musicians such as Chet Atkins (who features on three of the tracks on Portraits) Taylor is a self taught guitarist; he has developed a unique style of playing in which he picks several parts simultaneously. Listening to a solo piece, hearing a bass line, rhythm part and a lead melody all going at the same time... Read review

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.... She's My Baby 4. Beware My Love 5. Wino Junko 6. Silly Love Songs 7. Cook Of The House 8. Time To Hide 9. Must Do Something About It 10. San Ferry Anne 11. Warm And Beautiful 12. Walking In The Park With Eloise - (bonus track, UK single) 13. Bridge On The River Suite - (bonus track, B-side) 14. Sally G. - (bonus track, "Junior's Farm" B-side) The band: Paul McCartney - Lead vocals, bass, guitars, piano, drums, backing vocals Linda McCartney - Vocals, keyboards Denny Laine - Guitars, vocals Jimmy McCulloch - Guitars, vocals Joe English - Drums, vocals Horn Section: Tony Dorsey Thaddeus Richard Steve Howard Howie Casey Country Hams Paul McCartney Chet Atkins Floyd Cramer Denny Laine Geoff Britton... Read review

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Advantages: Unusual, highly talented flat picking guitarist
Disadvantages: Not any that I know of

...There are well over a 100 possible review slots for Country Guitar on Ciao, and yet I can only find one review. I am not therefore expecting this review of little-known Marcel Dadi to be exactly what you might call a "whizz bang" in terms of general interest. Never mind!!!! Marcel Dadi was a highly talented "flat picking" guitar specialist, and a personal friend of Chet Atkins. Sadly Marcel perished with all the 229 others aboard the Boeing 747 TWA Flight 800 which plunged into the sea off Long Island New York in July 1996 when he was at the relatively tender age of 44. At that tragic time, he had just been honoured as a new entrant in the Nashville County Music Hall of Fame and was on his was back to France after the ceremony. So why should I get wound up enough to write a review about a relatively obsure musician who I had never... Read review

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