Red Foley - Freight Train Boogie
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Uploaded by pappyredux on Mar 9, 2008
Red kicks off the show with a nice take on the Delmore Bros. classic. Yeah, man - that's Grady Martin on the double neck Bigsby. Righteous!
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The sound on 'Train Kept Rollin' is Martin-read the whole story on the Rockabilly Guitar site (google Grady Martin Paul Burlison).
It has been hard for many former Burlison fans to accept that the man was a charlatan.
Anyway I can only hip you to the facts,I can't put a gun to your head!
Regards,
2 years ago 6
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You are kidding about Paul Burlison playing lead on the Burnette records(please say you are!).
Twas Grady Martin-search Grady Martin Dreamboat here on YouTube and have an ephininy.
Actually Burlison did play lead on the weaker records but all the classics 'Train Kept..HoneyHush..Lonesome Train.. Sweet Love..Rockbilly Boogie ect ect were Grady Martin.
Spread the word!
2 years ago 6
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Early rock n roll pioneer.
Show this to any idiot who claims that blacks and blacks alone invented that musical style
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Speaking of Grady Martin. Grady is smoking hot on Johnny Horton's studio work. Check out Johnny Horton - I'm Coming Home (1957) here on YouTube.
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The album notes on my Delmore Brothers compilation mentions that Jethro Burns played electric guitar on the original recording of Freight Train Boogie. Jethro is rightly famous for his skills on the mandolin but he was a serious guitar picker as well.
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I watched Burlison play live with the Memphis AllStars, he sure played Train Kept a Rollin and all the other songs associated with him that Martin's fans say he couldn't have played. Grady Martin was a top notch studio and concert guitarist, that doesn't mean Paul wasn't as or nearly as good.
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Grady Martin is a new guitar God for me !!
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@BadboybillyC Grady's acoustic guitar playing on Marty Robbins' El Paso is still some of the best I've ever heard.
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Awrighteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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i love hearing people discuss this music because i know very little about it,its great stuff.john cash led me to patsy,loretta,the carter family ect.jimmy deans cajun queen prompted me to discover this great stuff.now its time to check out the delmore bros,never heard of them.
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I found out about this guy when i was 11 turns out hes my great great gradfather
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Grady Martin , the King of Hillbilly, Rock-N-Roll, Jazz guitar, and the greatest tone. Hats off to this wonderful musician.
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what grady did on that double neck bigsby is IMPRESSIVE. Among many other styles of music, I also play western swing which is what this is. There is no such musical style as "Hillbilly". If you're referring to "Bluegrass", this isn't bluegrass but the Delmore brothers did perform a lot of bluegrass along with western swing.
andrealuvshouse 2 years ago
Wow...interesting take on the genres...no such musical style as 'Hillbilly'? The Maddox Bros & Rose, Gene O'Quin, Jimmie Murphy, and about a hundred other acts would be interested to hear that. And the Delmores never played a lick of bluegrass, which is characterized generally by fast tempo banjo & fiddle, in their lives. Close harmony, boogie & blues - that was their game.
pappyredux 2 years ago
I am familiar with all of those groups - they're more traditional folk in my opinion - I play a lot of their music in various folk jam circles. I still would not call them Hillbilly. I have heard bluegrass recordings by the Delmores, but by and large most of the Delmore recordings I've heard have been western swing, and boogie and blues like you mentioned. But yes, I have heard some bluegrass recordings by the Delmores.
andrealuvshouse 2 years ago
Traditional Folk, huh? Well, I guess anybody can call it what they want...I've heard Pete Seeger called traditional folk, but Gene O'Quin? That's a first for me...
Billboard started calling it Hillbilly in their charts in 1939, so there's the 'tradition' for me...
I've probably got 100 tracks (CD, LP & 78) from the Delmores -- where can I find them playing 'bluegrass'? Anxious to hear it.
pappyredux 2 years ago 4