Some classic stuff on his blogsot too: “One draft of the icy water left frontman, Damon Albarn, talking like a cockney whelk vendor for years afterwards.”
Google is your friend, wise to use it before posting:
Reggie Grimes Young Jr. (December 12, 1936 – January 17, 2019) was an American musician who was lead guitarist in the American Sound Studio house band, The Memphis Boys,[1] and was a leading session musician.[2] He played on various recordings with artists such as Elvis Presley, Merrilee Rush, B.J. Thomas, John Prine, Dusty Springfield, Herbie Mann, J.J. Cale, Dionne Warwick, Roy Hamilton, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, the Box Tops, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Merle Haggard, Joey Tempest, George Strait, and The Highwaymen.
Ah yes well you see, my immediate thought too was “who he?” followed almost immediately by “I shall google the name”, which I did, on account of I thought it would be quicker to do so than to ask and wait for an answer, but now I’m writing this which has taken longer than either of those courses of action. Time management is a very difficult art to perfect.
It’s his guitar on Dusty’s Son of a Preacher Man, Elvis’s Suspicious Minds and In the Ghetto and Dibie Gray’s Drift Away – and about a million other things.
His album from a year or so ago – ‘Forever Young’ is well worth a listen.
I did two hours of Chips Moman and the American Studio/Memphis Boys on radio just days before we heard of Reggie’s passing. Pure chance – I did the show after watching the “late Elvis” documentary.
Thanks for the heads-up Geoff; it seems a little pocket of popular music knowledge has been filled in for me, but alas too late to enjoy while the fella was still breathing. From the names quoted above, I reckon I must have at least several dozen albums on which he played.
Note to self: read sleeve notes more carefully, even if they are in 2 font on a 5 inch CD cover.
And that’s the great thing about lots of those Muscle Shoals / Memphis musicians.
They do the right thing in the right place – they leave space for the song and enhance and embelish it rather than overwhelm it. That’s a lesson that loads of bands should learn.
It’s a bit of a cliché but it’s not what you play, it’s what you don’t play that counts.
Someone told me I didn’t play some really good things the other night.
backwards?
Eh?
Prob not. Still on twitter, mind. Or not, as the last tweet suggests.
Tweets by backwards7
Some classic stuff on his blogsot too: “One draft of the icy water left frontman, Damon Albarn, talking like a cockney whelk vendor for years afterwards.”
Oh Foxy, surely you recognise a Bristol postcode when you see one?
GL mate, have been for 27 years!
You’re right though – I’d have spotted it if it was in upper case!
Who is Reggie Young?
I thought I might look stupid by asking that question, but I’m in good company in my ignorance.
Google is your friend, wise to use it before posting:
Reggie Grimes Young Jr. (December 12, 1936 – January 17, 2019) was an American musician who was lead guitarist in the American Sound Studio house band, The Memphis Boys,[1] and was a leading session musician.[2] He played on various recordings with artists such as Elvis Presley, Merrilee Rush, B.J. Thomas, John Prine, Dusty Springfield, Herbie Mann, J.J. Cale, Dionne Warwick, Roy Hamilton, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, the Box Tops, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Merle Haggard, Joey Tempest, George Strait, and The Highwaymen.
Ah yes well you see, my immediate thought too was “who he?” followed almost immediately by “I shall google the name”, which I did, on account of I thought it would be quicker to do so than to ask and wait for an answer, but now I’m writing this which has taken longer than either of those courses of action. Time management is a very difficult art to perfect.
Google may be our friend, but there’s nothing wrong with providing a little more information in the first instance.
It’s his guitar on Dusty’s Son of a Preacher Man, Elvis’s Suspicious Minds and In the Ghetto and Dibie Gray’s Drift Away – and about a million other things.
His album from a year or so ago – ‘Forever Young’ is well worth a listen.
I did two hours of Chips Moman and the American Studio/Memphis Boys on radio just days before we heard of Reggie’s passing. Pure chance – I did the show after watching the “late Elvis” documentary.
Thanks for the heads-up Geoff; it seems a little pocket of popular music knowledge has been filled in for me, but alas too late to enjoy while the fella was still breathing. From the names quoted above, I reckon I must have at least several dozen albums on which he played.
Note to self: read sleeve notes more carefully, even if they are in 2 font on a 5 inch CD cover.
I love the fact that his CV goes all the way back to Eddie Bond and the Stompers, of whom it has been said, Who?
Here he is in 1956, spanking a tasty plank on Rockin’ Daddy…
And here he is four years later, doing, er, not very much (but doing it well) in Bill Black’s Combo.
And that’s the great thing about lots of those Muscle Shoals / Memphis musicians.
They do the right thing in the right place – they leave space for the song and enhance and embelish it rather than overwhelm it. That’s a lesson that loads of bands should learn.
It’s a bit of a cliché but it’s not what you play, it’s what you don’t play that counts.
Someone told me I didn’t play some really good things the other night.
Purely coincidentally, Ace Records have just released this album:
https://acerecords.co.uk/forever-young