Al Casey: Guitar. That credit has been on hundreds of recordings, many of which you've heard. That photo up above is a young Casey in high school, a kid with a muffled confident smirk for good reason. He had already been playing pedal steel for over ten years, and it's not an easy instrument to play. With a start like that, playing a regular six string (that requires only the use of your hands, and not your feet and knees) must have been a cake walk. Within five years the whizz kid would be playing and co-writing with Duane Eddy. He dabbled in rockabilly, and later in surf-type instrumentals, and as a member of the Wrecking Crew played on recordings by the Beach Boys, Phil Spector, Elvis Presley, Glen Campbell, The Association, The Monkees, Johnny Cash, Eddy Arnold, Simon & Garfunkel, The 5th Dimension, Harry Nilsson, The Partridge Family, Frank Sinatra, and Nancy Sinatra. Look at the photo again. Doe it not look like he knows he's the shit?
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Listen:
Al Casey - Teenage Blues mp3 at Rocky-52.net
Jody Reynolds (Al Casey: guitar) - Daisy Mae mp3 at Probe Is Turning-On the People
Jody Reynolds (Al Casey: Guitar) - The Fire of Love mp3 at Probe Is Turning-On the People
Al Casey - Baja mp3 at Probe Is Turning-On the People
Al Casey & the K.C.-ettes - Surfin' Hootnanny at Rocky-52.net On this one he apes Dick Dale, the Ventures and Duane Eddy
Nancy Sinatra (Al Casey: Guitar) - These Boots Are Made For Walkin' mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Visit:
Al Casey at Spectropop
Al Casey at Wikipedia
Al Casey at The Rockabilly Hall of Fame
Earlier post about the Wrecking Crew
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