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Guy Cundell


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Post  Posted 21 Mar 2017 4:21 am    
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'I'm All Through Trusting You" Jimmie Widener, April 1946

Some reissue compilations have this solo down to Noel Boggs. While I don't doubt that Mr Boggs could reel off a Murphey impersonation, this seems to me to be Joaquin Murphey.

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The solo: http://picosong.com/p2HS

The whole song for context:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qm-DvXb3mQ

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Mitch Drumm

 

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Post  Posted 21 Mar 2017 4:57 am    
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Yeah, Joaquin.

It's got that Joaquin bounce in the early portions of the solo that distinguishes it from Noel--who was on some later Widener recordings.

The immediately preceding matrix from the same day ("I Can Tell Just As Plain") is even more readily identifiable as Joaquin.

http://picosong.com/p2dL

As usual, I laughed out loud at his ideas when I just now listened to this for the first time in several years.

What's going through his mind to come up with this stuff--leaving aside having the technique to execute it?

It's like that Ferlin Huskey with Joaquin track I know you've heard. The man was clearly possessed.


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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 21 Mar 2017 5:09 am    
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Murph. No question in my mind. It has his characteristic phrasing.
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David M Brown


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Post  Posted 21 Mar 2017 5:36 am    
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Thank you for posting a piece in F#9 tuning.
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Mark Roeder


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Post  Posted 21 Mar 2017 8:59 am    
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my vote is Murph
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Guy Cundell


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Post  Posted 21 Mar 2017 2:47 pm    
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Thank you, gentlemen. I will ink that one in as Joaquin.

What a solo on 'I Can Tell Plain As You"! Superb! Thanks, Mitch! BTW, I collected plenty of music last November and ate mainly barbeque as you suggested, but I am yet to have a Moon Pie. Man, those things look dangerous!
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Guy Cundell


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Post  Posted 21 Mar 2017 4:37 pm    
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'Compulsive obsessive'





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Stephen Baker

 

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Post  Posted 21 Mar 2017 4:38 pm    
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They are a bit like a "Waggon Wheel" but fatter and softer.
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