Night Atlanta Burned, The/First Nashville Guitar Quartet - Chet Atkins

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

...never heard of until 3 years ago?His music was introduced to me by a French colleague, who had been taught guitar by him, and said that I just had to listen to this boy play guitar. I was absolutely stunned by Marcel's techical guitar skills and the absolute simplicity that he appeared to be giving to his music. Although he faithfully followed the instrumental styles of Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and Jerry Reed, he was in many ways a much more varied musician too and played renderings of Vivaldi and Mozart, Nashville Rumba as well as his own country compositions. So I bought two of his CDs, there are many available but mainly on French labels. The ones I bought were La Guitare à Dadi Vols 1 & 2. Three of my favourite tracks are La Madrugada (the dawn), the Third Man Theme from the classic movie of the same name, (originally played... Read review

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

...time, you would believe that there is more than one guitar at work. However, it is all him. When I first saw him play live, I could hardly believe that this was just one guitarist alone. There is a story that he was voted "Best guitarist" by readers of a jazz magazine so many times that in the end they excluded him from the nominations! He has also won Best British Jazz Artist 7 years in a row "Portraits" contains 14 tracks of which nine are solo; on two tracks he records two guitar parts; three are duets with another legendary jazz guitarist, Chet Atkins. To help the listener know whether there really are two guitars, or whether it is just him, the track listing on the back of the CD mentions after each whether it is "Solo", "Atkins & Taylot Duet", or "Taylor Duet Overdub" - he played another track alongside his first... Read review

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Advantages: amazing guitar work with super cool rock lyrics!
Disadvantages: none

...This album rocks! There's not one thing that I don't like about it. The title track "Burning organ" reveals some of Paul Gilbert's amazing blues guitar influences and is put very well with the organ which I think is a hammond organ. It is an instrumental song and is one of the best tracks on the album. The song "My Religion" is a beautiful pop style ballad but still involves some very complicated guitar playing to make it Gilbert style! My favourite song on the album is "Bliss" mainly because of the blistering fast guitar solo but also because of the super cool rock lyrics! If you like Paul Gilbert's guitar playing but would like to hear him sing too this is the album for you! One of Gilbert's best albums!... Read review

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