Buddy Merrill plays "I Walk The Line" on his Fender Stratocaster

[kayfowler1]

one of the best I Walk The LIne I have ever heard

[bluesborn]

It's so nice to hear a musician play what's the word I'm searching for?Oh right."Music".

I really love the sound of the guitar and accordion together especially when they double up on the melody lines.It's not a sound you hear very much and it really glitters.

[2SugarsPleeze]

COOL! what year was this please?

Also did anyone notice how high he had the neck pick up set???

[2bwhiteproud]

listen to that Strat Gibsons should be sold by the RICK:).

They are heavy sound bad and don't stay in tune other than that they;re GREAT Guitars:).. No Gibson could EVER sound this good EVER!.

[theCaliforniakidd1]

Buddy Merrill is a god  on guitar,I believe his amp was a fender vibtone 56 .Back in the day we didnt use peddle much mostly through the amp and using the tone control at ful open and raised picksup usually in the middle selecter position being a three way wiring way back when .Players today seem to need more "floor " Toys to pull a "hot lick"

Most Musicians that worked for Mr. Welk were studied musicians , all read music and were multi instrumental.

[richard42960]

hey bobluman, new strats do sound like this. Mine does! $1500.00 and change for a new American deluxe, blend the neck & middle pickups with the 5-way switch plug into a fender blues deluxe & most important: use a compression/sustain pedal (in the loop) & in no time, you're swingin' like Buddy!!!

[bobluman4]

i wish strats still sounded like this ...

[matt1284508]

Tone to the bone!

[pyrofella]

Good lord -- I walk the line - for the music box??? lol - it sucked

[bobluman4]

@pyrofella sounds good ........

[surfinjohnnyq]

maple neck  ,,,,heck ya

[bigdaddystinkeye]

That's a nice old 50's Strat. Wonder what year this was? I Walked the Line came out in the 60's, didn't it?

[redflyingv]

Classic pure Fender Strat sound!!!

[BlueMoonGuitar]

@redflyingv

No doubt... Incredible tone. Cat could play too. Good technique, tasteful phrasing... good all the way around.