Ricky Scaggs, for all you "I need more gain".

[Willabe]

For fun listen to this;

http://youtu.be/dVhWx36GFpI

              Brad                  

[Ritchie200]

"Hello Mom!"

I saw Ricky live back in the early 90's.  He is SO good, just amazing.  No studio tricks with this guy!

Jim

[tubenit]

Totally LOVE that type of music!!!

I saw Vince Gill's bluegrass group last year and he can pick a mandolin like crazy good.

Cool thing with the bluegrass/folk acoustic groups is that they always seem to enjoy one another's solo's. I like that aspect!!

with respect, Tubenit

[Willabe]

Glad you guys like it so much.

I saw him in Kansas years back and he and his (electric) band were top shelf with out a doubt. I seem to remember he had a very young rhythm guitar player at the time, maybe 17 or 18?

It was a free concert for a church and donations were accepted as you came in but were not necessary to see the show.

He just tore up "Getting Ready to Walk in Jerusalem like John" and I mean tore it up!

Vince Gill is absolutely 1 of my favorite guitarist, singer and songwriters of all time. I love his strat lead playing and tone. And I think he's a wonderful singer, love his high lonesome tenor. Beautiful vibrato.

He started to write songs for a new (at the time) CD and he ended up with 4 CDs worth of songs, so he put it out as a 4 CD set. Each CD is different, the Rockin Record, the Groovy Record, the Country Record and the Acoustic Record.  Beg, borrow or buy the set, you'll love it.

I grew up listing to AM radio in the 60's and then in the 70's I was listening to the Stones, Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Clapton, Allman Bros., Rory Gallagher, Climax Blues Band (FM Live is a great double album if you haven't heard it) you know all the blues/rock stuff. That led me to older Chicago type blues and R&B, soul. But then in my late 30's, I started to listen to County radio. I was craving more melody in songs and fell in love with it too.      

I also love Lee Roy Parnell, great slide player with great smooth tone yet his tone has some fire in it too, pretty good singer, good song writer, always keeps a top notch band.

Delbert McClinton and Keb Mo are 2 more of my favorite musicians. Oh and Little Feet, Bruce Hornsby, Bonnie Raitt, Aretha, Ray Charles, Willy Nelson, Larry Carlton, Billy Preston, Marc Cohn, War, Santana, Trower, Thin Lizzy, all the 60's/70's soul vocal bands, Al Green, Mavis Staples, the Band for Levon Helm  ........... The list goes on and on.    

It's funny to me as life goes on we really widen what we listen to.            

I'm gonna change the threads title and add Ricky's name. I should have done that when I posted, was just fooling around.


                      Brad      
  

[Davidg]

Thanks for the props to a fellow Kentuckian! Ricky is awesome an older mentor of mine played the bluegrass circuit around Lexington before Ricky made it and actually had Ricky play most of the solos on guitar and mandolin on an album they recorded cause it was best for the record. He said Ricky was a class act as they paid him nothing and there was no chance of the album making any money for him.Keith Whitley played rythym for Ricky from time time I believe and wonder if that's who u saw with him?

[Slimtim]

Mr. Scaggs just makes it look too easy.hell they all did and looked to have had a blast doing it.now i have to hear some country boy lol.

[smackoj]

now all we need to add to that smoker is Earl Scruggs, Lester Flat, Vassar Clements, Doc Watson, Norman Blake, James Brown, Muddy Waters and Johnny Winter....and Billy Gibbons if he ain't too busy.

 

[jloud]

Really enjoyed that.  We used to watch Ricky's show on TNN.  Really miss TNN.  Here's another side of Ricky...and Marty...and Brian... Enjoy. Brian Setzer, Marty Stuart & Ricky Skaggs - Rock This Town 

[Willabe]

Thanks for posting that jloud, that's a good one too.


              Brad     

[cbass]

Love bluegrass.Wish I was good enough to play it well