Tommy Emmanuel and Kenny Vaughan playing Western swing

[ruger9]

I think that's the sweetest neck PAF in a Les Paul I've ever heard...

[slabboardsam]

"Right or Wrong," very nice. Kenny Vaughan is the man. Picking up tickets to see Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives with Junior Brown in June with my dad and uncle.

[ruger9]

I've seen TE and MS&TFS twice each. Not to be missed!

Always wanted to see Junior, never had the opportunity.

[slabboardsam]

I've never seen Tommy, but I'd like to. I had a high school classmate who was a crazy good fingerstyle player who had jammed with him at some point.

[Oscar67]

TE is astonishing as a player, a performer and a composer. He’s also a warm and wonderful person as well as a walking jukebox. I’ve been fortunate enough to see him and meet him many times, from club dates to prestigious venues. Over the years he started to play louder and louder and at some point I stopped going. I’m a rock guy and am used to shows that rearrange your internal organs, but a flattop at 100dB just isn’t what I need to hear (not even his Matons). Incidentally, that turned me towards archtops and jazz. I couldn’t stand the sound of flattops anymore. It’s been many years since I last saw Tommy. What a guy. #respect

BTW, I _love_ the sound he gets out of that LP!

[Oscar67]

BTW, the LP is dead quiet but listen what happens when the archtop’s volume is turned up at the beginning…

[ruger9]

BTW, the LP is dead quiet but listen what happens when the archtop’s volume is turned up at the beginning…

I noticed that too. Something going on with the wiring in that one... and it's even got humbuckers...

[Petimar]

As a Western Swing electric mandolin and fiddle player, I really like this! I think WS players like Eldon Shamblin and Jr Bernard are tragically under rated by the jazz guitar community.

[ruger9]

As a Western Swing electric mandolin and fiddle player, I really like this! I think WS players like Eldon Shamblin and Jr Bernard are tragically under rated by the jazz guitar community.

Hillbilly Jazz. I love the stuff! George Barnes, Jimmy Bryant, Jimmie Rivers...

[MarkRhodes]

I really like that stuff. Kenny Vaughan is a treasure trove of great stories. (Often on YouTube talking to Otis Gibbs.)

Speaking of Eldon Shamblin, here he is with Herb Ellis doing "There Will Never Be Another You."

[Petimar]

Jimmie Rivers, especially the record Brisbane Bop with Vance Terry, (whom I was lucky enough to play a couple of gigs with).

“Music starts at 9:00, fights start at 10:00”.

[slabboardsam]

Jimmie Rivers, especially the record Brisbane Bop with Vance Terry, (whom I was lucky enough to play a couple of gigs with).

“Music starts at 9:00, fights start at 10:00”.

The only good thing about my drive to and from work is "Brisbane Bop" in my car's CD player. I've got a little Western swing combo at college I'm trying to whip into shape, and we're doing "Swedish Pastry" like on that record, I'd like to slip in Jimmie's arrangements of "Back Bay Shuffle" and the Barney Kessel-like arrangement of "Slow Boat to China." I've got a long way to go to try to play like him, though.