Chet Atkins and Lenny Breau "Sweet Georgia Brown"

[mvp019]

Chet asserted that Lenny was better - who are we to argue with the man himself?

[daffydoug]

@mvp019 Let me put it this way. Chet was known for being very humble and self effacing.

[mvp019]

@daffydoug Let me put it this way - both were great, but Lenny was better; he was doing things that all the great players of his day were amazed at.

[daffydoug]

@mvp019 Guitar players weren't amazed at Chet??

[mvp019]

@daffydoug I didn't say that - I love Chet and so do many others. He was one of the greats.

I recommend that you read "One Long Tune" by Forbes-Roberts - available on amazon, and I am quite certain you will enjoy reading it very much if you like guitar and guitarists. Then post here.

[saitamme]

this is just beautiful. i love how they start the song on the 2nd half of the 32 bars, totally understated and elegant intro.

[daffydoug]

@saitamme Amazing, isn't it?

[insaneguitarfreak]

now THAT was fucking masterful.

[CharlesMcGlade]

Chet plays base here.

[gxtmfa]

Both of these musicians had an amazing ability to make the simplest of songs into master pieces on the guitar. I wouldn't make any assertions that one was better than the other. Jazz guys are going to want to say Breau and they'll want to say that because Breau was a jazz musician. But so was Chet- it's just that no one ever seemed to call him a jazz musician.

[daffydoug]

@gxtmfa That's because he was so versatile and could play ANYTHING from classical, to country, to blues, to rock, to jazz that it was impossible to put Chet's ability in a box. He defied classification.

[gxtmfa]

Both of these musicians had an amazing ability to make the simplest of songs into master pieces on the guitar. I wouldn't make any assertions that one was better than the other. Jazz guys are going to want to say Breau and they'll want to say that because Breau was a jazz musician. But so was Chet- it's just that no one ever seemed to call him a jazz musician.

[jazzpsalti]

man the chorus that starts at like 3:07 is just insane

[Ezekiel16banjo]

jazz chords are my favorite i play jazz '' lenny is playing some that i even dont know there lol great song i can play this vid all day thanks :)) ..

[60lab]

Lenny was unreal good. I lived next to him for about a year in the 70s in Nashville. He was a truely gentle spirit. When he played at Mississippi Whiskers on sundays, every guitar player in town would line up to see him. He could play three songs in three different time signatures and styles at the same time. There's never been anyone like him.

[chaosIsTheOnlyPower]

Chet was beyond words in ability and his contibution to the music industry. Lenny was a monster that Chet tried to save from the abyss of drugs. A triumphant but sad recording. Chet lived the full life and got the acolades. Lenny died too young.

Thanks for the post.

[daffydoug]

@chaosIsTheOnlyPower That was very well put!

[hunkyguyjake]

@chaosIsTheOnlyPower Agree'd but even Chet thought of Lenny Breau as a genius and he actually was one of the few guitarists that could blow Chets mind...and even chet was known to say Lenny was the "BEST"

[kinkeywizard]

forgottenjams com new music forum

[chet328]

the techniqe is referred to as octave harmonic arpeggio

[matt1284508]

Nobody had tone like Chet.Lenny was more of a jazz guitarist but his tone was thin.I think to facilitate harmonics.God bless these two great guitarists as they are sorely missed.

[agoblinist]

Lenny's tone is not great on this but in general he had awesome tone especially on nylon string. I just read his biography One Long Tune and apparently around the time Lenny recorded this with Chet he hadn't been playing much and was very unhappy with his playing in general. But if you listen to his playing on The Legendary Lenny Breau...Now recorded a couple of years later, his playing and tone are absolutely awesome. That album was recorded at Chet's house as this cut was.

[rg1430914]

Two legends,it doesn't get any better than this!!!!Thanks Doug...............

[gitterfritter]

Holy shit ... that was sick.

[Upow]

If you listen with headphones you can hear a door open at 2:18. It sounds like an aim door, but I can't be certain.

[bluesexplosionrob]

The harmonics in this are brilliant!

But another thing has caught my ear, and that's the short staccato outro chord at about 4:37.

Does anyone perhaps know if there's a name for this technique? It's also used in Tim Buckley's "I woke up".

[MaximusDowns]

I don't know the name, but basically he's playing harmonics and harmonizing them with intervals that sound good, sounds like he's doing them in arpeggio form too but my ear isn't that good

[SonicArchives]

harp harmonics is ussually what it is called.

[kingbee847]

come on! Harmonized harmonics?? Give me a break if this is not the most of the best of these two giants!!

[SonicArchives]

He is playing harmonic and regular note at same time or letting them overlap with regular notes so it is a harmonized harmonic, most people call it harp harmonics. Most of the patterns have equal number of harmonics and regular notes. Often they are not unisons though.,

[pissballs]

Lenny really had a cool and interesting way of approaching harmony compositions for Jazz . Chet and Lenny what a treat!

[theelwins]

what album does this song come from?

[daffydoug]

It was the Chet and friends Album

Daff

[theelwins]

hey thanks a lot

i'm so glad i came across your videos

[daffydoug]

Thanks for the kind words, bro!

[jmcljazz]

Lenny was head and shoulders above any guitarist then or today!

[SuperBluesbro]

@jmcljazz so what... that's not what it is about.

[ChrisCalder17]

Thanks for posting this, I love hearing Chet and Lenny play together

[maurieer]

Really nice to hear two masters play like

Chet and Lenny.

5/5

[hermanshermits124124]

Amazing, thanks!

[woodjoy]

Bravo this is magic

[daffydoug]

I agree, there is something real special about these two playing together in this arrangement. The sound is just incredible! All those great jazz chords. I love it!

[rokyrex]

great tnx for putting this up! :)

[Topdoginuk]

Good stuff.