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04-01-2019 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by KirkP
Echo Boogie was the flip of Apache and is a great tune--I think it was the original A side of the disc.
Danny W.
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This came out in 2002 on the "Junk Yard" album. I was living in NOLA at the time and heard this often of 'OZ. Retain a soft spot for it.
Here is Clint Strong playing it just a few years ago.
Here's the Joe Pass version
And the huge hit by Bobbie Gentry from 1967
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Axe master Johnny A has built his modern solo career on instrumental pop tunes, and nobody does it better, IMO. BTW, was hired as lead guitar for Yardbirds reunion tour.
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I like that Joe Pass version on Ode to Billy Joe. His pop work often sounds called in, but he seems into this tunes. I’ll post a few.
Rod Cook is one of my favorite rock/pop/blues guitarists in the Seattle/Tacoma area, and can burn the house down on this tune. (This is from a jam. I didn’t find a video with his own band.)
Danny Gatton.
Patricia Barber has a nice version with vocal, bass, and finger snaps. I’ve tried this feel in duet with bass, and it’s kind of fun.
Last edited by KirkP; 04-03-2019 at 12:55 AM.
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I am afraid I cannot see the point of an instrumental version of Ode to Billy Joe. It is a song, and it is all about the lyrics: the black-eyed peas, the biscuits, Choctaw Ridge, and the news that Billie Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. But each to his own.
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Originally Posted by Litterick
Well, here's another one, Lou Donaldson's trick. It's a nice groove and catchy melody (for a groove tune).
I wonder who did the first instrumental version of this song.
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Originally Posted by cosmic gumbo
I met Johnny in the Gibson booth at the Winter NAMM in 2004, and got a chance to play one of his personal guitars. I immediately ordered a slightly custom version and bought another soon after. These are fabulous guitars, and I found Johnny to be an amazing player. These are still my favorite stand-up guitars.
Danny W.
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That's Tom T Hall (great songwriter) introducing Boots Randolph here.
Dexter Gordon takes a low-key turn at it
A studio-jam version...
A curious approach taken by Oscar Peterson here...
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Originally Posted by Litterick
One could argue that the most important feature of any blues is the vocal, but that hasn’t stopped people from playing them as instrumentals.
I think the most difficult tunes to make compelling as instrumentals are in the Beatles repertoire, due to the complex arrangements that audiences might have difficulty deviating from.
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Originally Posted by Litterick
EDIT: Note to my self: Make instrumental version worth mentioning, if you can.
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'Ode To Billie Joe' Was A Surprise Hit That Prompted Dozens Of Jazz Versions : NPR
Not all the versions mentined in the radio interview / feature, but maybe three-fourths.
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In the spirit of the avant-garde, I played them all at once.
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Very different from each other:
Joe Satriani
Sonny Landreth
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Originally Posted by Phil59
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This seems to be the most recent article surveying the vast styles of instrumentals that were hits:
Rewind the Biggest Instrumental Hits of the Past 50 Years
I imagine if they said songs older than half-a-century more surf songs (Wipeout, Walk Don't Run) and a deserving nod to Santos and Johnny's Sleepwalk would be on here.
If another pop culture wave (surfing), dance craze, hit film comes along that uses an all instrumental pop tune (who knows, maybe with some great guitar work) non-vocal music will just be in the background for the average listener.
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Originally Posted by cosmic gumbo
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