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Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Back In the Day, 1961

Roy Lanham

The Most Exciting Guitar   vinyl

(Dolton Records)




Suitable for nightspot long-leggers and others desirous of astral projection. By the 1959 recording of this masterwork (which went unreleased for two years), Roy had already amassed credits with icons including the Delmore Brothers, Roy Rogers, Jimmy Patton, and Hank Penny. (Later confreres included the Burnette brothers - separately - Johnny Horton, and Jim Reeves.) Bassist Red Wooten and drummer Earl Palmer (himself since of legendary status) fell in with Roy to produce this wondrous document - eminently polished, dirt-road and Jazz-mannered musings in which slyly darting string-touches and lush passages fly adherents to the stars.

This was reissued in 1981 by Bear Family.

Recommended: "Lost Weekend," "Where Or When," "Body and Soul," "Song of India," "A Smooth One," "These Foolish Things," "Steel Guitar Rag," "Lover Come Back To Me," "As Time Goes By," "Wildwood Flower," "Kerry Dance," "Old Joe Clark"

Video: "Where Or When"   "A Smooth One"   "Steel Guitar Rag"   "Wildwood Flower"


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