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4.0 out of 5 stars
Who knew??!!,
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This review is from: Nashville West featuring Clarence White (Audio CD)
To discover that Clarence White was playing a non-B-Bender-equipped Telecaster like he does on these recordings from early 1968(!) is nothing short of revelatory. For guitarists, especially those with an interest in countrified electric guitar, what a twenty-something White was doing is on the same level as what Jimi Hendrix did for rock guitar - it is that astounding. It is noteworthy that while there were some very good country pickers who must have inspired the young White on electric guitar (he was already established at the time as a very adept acoustic country flatpicker with the Kentucky Colonels), most notably Don Rich with Buck Owens and Roy Nichols with Merle Haggard, what Clarence White developed was an attempt to emulate the pedal steel guitar by bending multiple strings.
Okay, the singing by Gib Guilbeau is pretty pedestrian bar-band country, and the songs are mostly '60s country standard-fare, but Gene Parsons (like White, a future Byrds member) was a kick-butt drummer driving the band - and White - to better heights than they had a right to, given the material. The recordings are surprisingly clean, although the backing vocals are mostly lost, which is too bad as Guilbeau's thin voice takes undeserved prominence in the mix; thankfully, the lead guitar is very present. But if you are a guitar-picker or simply curious as to the beginnings of modern electric country guitar (think Pete Anderson, Vince Gill, Brad Paisley, or Marty Stuart - who provides liner notes for this reissue), this recording is a must-have documentation of where it all came from.
3.0 out of 5 stars
It sounds like a bootleg...,
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This review is from: Nashville West featuring Clarence White (Audio CD)
I love Clarence White and was excited to find this CD as I'd heard good things about it. I'm glad I own it, but wish it was better produced with more cohesion and stronger vocals. The mix is pretty bad overall. Still, this is Clarence White making the switch from acoustic flat-picking to all out electric ripping. I own the original version of this CD and don't know if the 2009 release is cleaned up at all, but I do know it has some extra tunes. Spend the extra dollar to get the newer one.
5.0 out of 5 stars
if dont have - gotta get,
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If you like electric guitar at all - you really need this one. 'nuff said.
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