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The steel guitar, it needs to be said, was the “special sauce” in early country music of the 1940s and ‘50s. From the soaring glissando and celestial, ringing harmonics to the scorching, breakneck single-note runs and big stacked chords, whose warm, electrified sound (uniquely) spanned the audio spectrum, the steel
Fun Facts & Trivia — Top Tweets from King Records Month 2018 As with the previous piece (“King’s Jazz Legacy“), it seems pointless to keep all this rich history from last year’s King 75th Birthday Celebration (a wide-ranging musical extravaganza organized by Brian Powers of Cincinnati Public Libraries) tucked away
Fascinating to consider that Mr. “Sugarfoot Rag” himself, Hank Garland, would go on later to record one of the smoothest, coolest West Coast modern jazz albums — in fact, the very same one that inspired George Benson. Check out the kick-off tune: “All the Things You Are“ Hank Garland Quartet
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