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James Burton is one of the most important, and influential guitarists of all time, and in this episode of Ask Zac, I answer "why." To do this, I demonstrate some of his playing techniques, talk of his very early use of light gauge strings, and the exposure he had due to his appearing on the Ozzie and Harriet Show, Shindig, and many filmed concerts with Elvis and others.
Note: I relate a story Burton told me of Forrest White visiting an Elvis show in 1969 representing Fender. Forrest left Fender in 1966. It was probably someone else high up with Fender, not Forrest. I mention Rock-n-Roll Circus, and I meant Carnival Rock as the movie that Burton appears in with Bob Luman. Also special thanks to Steve Fishell for writing the June 1984 Guitar Player magazine feature on James Burton that made me a fan of James years ago.
My Spotify playlist of great Burton tracks
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Gear used in this video:
Crook Custom T-style with Vintage Paisley finish
Florance TE-60 Bridge, Adder APC Neck
Ernie Ball strings gauged 9,10,12,24,32,42
1965 Deluxe Reverb amp with Celestion V30 speaker
effects used: amp reverb and Mirage compressor pedal
9v power via Truetone CS6 amzn.to/38S9rZK #askzac #guitartech #telecaster
For me, the solo and backing on Rick Nelson’s “Hello Mary Lou” is a truly outstanding example of how James’ playing becomes an essential part of the track - a bit like George Harrison’s parts on every Beatles’ record.
The first song that caught my ear was Young World...... some great picking there.
Great video. I'm a massive fan of Burton - definite pioneer of the Telecaster style! Appreciate the way you went into the details of his playing, guitars and strings. Thanks for the Spotify playlist too!
You are so welcome!
Excellent information Zac. I feel like I’m in college, you’re an awesome teacher of the Telecaster...Wow I’m mind blown !!
Wow, thanks!
Haha, I actually held a talk at an international musicology conference about "the Telecaster style" some 15 years ago. I also concluded with that James Burton was the one who started it. The talk never got published, but my grand theory was that playing the Telecaster somehow referenced the banjo and "tradition". So it was kind of a tool to "keeping it country" - even if it was a modern - electric - instrument.
I like it!
do you have the talk in video form?
@@luket3149 Unfortunately not, but I am happy to share the manuscript if I find it.
@@hans-hinrichthedens706 that would be great too
I would say that is a very logical theory.
Always liked hearing Elvis say “ play the song James “.
Play it james
I was first introduced to James on ELHs 1975 "Pieces of the Sky" LP. Played guitar and dobro. Been a big admirer since then. Didn't know he played with Haggard. Always learn a lot from your sessions. Keep up the great work! RIP Reggie Young
I learned about James from that ELH album too!
Thanks Zac! Great story about the '52 Tele. I never knew that. JB is my favorite guitar player of all time. PLEASE get him on your podcast and memorialize all of details of his gear over the years so it is preserved fir future generations of Tele pickers!
I am trying to get him. I really want to get more of his story down.
@@AskZac Tell him he has a legion of fans waiting!
James Burton in my opinion is the greatest of all time. Thanx for sharing.
No doubt!
Didn’t realize how much Burton actually influenced my playing style til now. Thanks, Zac for making my morning coffee that much better!
Thank you for watching, Tristen! Burton's influence is huge.
Now that i think about it, i hear a lot of James' play style in the way that Brad Paisley plays.....
@@truckercowboyed2638 James has influenced most Tele players.
@@AskZac in fact my favorite thing to do, is put on a brad paisley song, like Mud on the Tires and try to play the parts that he does. Its so fun when you hit those runs he loves to throw in.....
@@truckercowboyed2638 Awesome!!!
As a Burton guy I thought this video was very informative. Always wondered about the ever changing look of his original telecaster (from blonde to some kind of burst to red)and the modifications done to his pink paisley (including the new neck). I’ve also seen videos of him playing his original tele with a rosewood Strat neck. I think he liked to play around with looks and parts a bit. Thank you!
The Strat necks were interesting. He is seen with both a maple and a rosewood Strat neck during the mid 60's.
I'm falling down the JB rabbit hole and your videos are an amazing place to find valuable information. I've saved and am listening to your playlist on Spotify, it's making me discover a lot more things I didn't know. Thank you!
Nice job Zac, very informative as always..Thanks for the kind words about the guitar and explaining the headstock, so I don't have to. Very classy mention of Peter Florance.
Absolutely. I miss Peter.
@@AskZac Me too!
Bill one of these days when it’s financially feasible, my biggest guitar desire is to own a Crook Custom! Always blown away by what you make!
Peter was a friend of mine and I actually called him the day he passed away to see if my teles we're ready to be picked up. He didn't answer. Miss him so much! That man changed my life and I am honored to have known him. And yes, his pickups are the best I've ever heard I'm my opinion. Great episode.
I miss Peter too. I was thinking about him the day before he passed.
Fascinating! I’m a bass player/fiddle player, but I’m also an extremely mediocre guitar player. One of my most intimidating moments was when I was playing my ‘52 reissue Tele at a festival gig, and James Burton was there. Yikes! But all went well. He was at this festival to receive an award, and there was also a session in which he and Estelle Brown from the Sweet Inspirations talked about their time with Elvis. It was absolutely riveting! I got to chat with James briefly, and, of course, he was super nice and soft-spoken. That was one of my most memorable gigs. James is a national treasure.
Glad you got to meet him. Very cool!
You have helped my fall back in love with not only playing my guitar, but with my guitar. I’m spending allot more time with her when, I’m off the road these days. Thank you. I got a personal tour of the Louisiana hayride building and his studio. It’s a day, I’ll never forget.
You are so welcome. Thank you for sharing that. I would love to check out the Hayride building
@@AskZac It pretty bad ass bud. You have an open invitation anytime you see Jackson Taylor & The Sinners playing anywhere, bud. Bring any amp you want and you’re in the band for the night. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Carnival Rock is here on TH-cam. James was much younger than he is currently. Wow! 😁 I almost didn't know which was him except I knew he was playing the blackguard Tele 👌 Thanks, Zac!
One of my favorites!
Thanks for all the Spotify playlists. Just great stuff!
Thank you!!
I agree with you about Burton. Spent a little time around him, when I lived in Nashville.
Very cool
Thank you Zac for the video..it's refreshing to watch a video where someone's not trying to sell something...Great information about Mr. Burton....I'm old enough to confess that I watched the Nelson clan on TV.....in B/W as a kid!! LOL
You are very welcome, and that is very cool!
Me too. I always loved that tele sound. Was drawn to it since I was a kid. Didn't know why. So, I bought one a couple weeks ago. I'm learning. Yes, you can teach an old dog new tricks.
Seriously. That's why I can't watch LockPickingLawyer anymore. Anytime he does anything, he has to throw in that, little ad "I do sell these over at blah blah blah and blah blah blah". Nope. My response? "No thanks. I don't need you trying to sell me everything you use on your channel now. See ya! ✌️"
And I refuse to watch anymore. That's BS and I ain't gotta put up with it
Great show Zac! Really like your relaxed, informative style. Cant' wait for the next one. Best wishes for your success!
Thank you so much, Ky
My favorite James Burton licks is in Young World by Ricky Nelson.......those licks made me want to be a guitar player.
Yeah buddy a trip down memory lane.James was great player,and like you said had a major influence on guitarist of the day.Great video ..I remembered him on several shows of the 50s an 60s.And yes I watched Ozzie and Harriet shows.👍🎸😎
Albert lee said, James Burton was his hero . I love this style .
Richard Thompson too - he did a song called Guitar Heroes (about a young lad who's too busy practising his guitar so he can be like his heroes to do his schoolwork or spend time with his girlfriend) and James Burton was one of the names mentioned.
I enjoy watching and listening to James Burton playing on Roy Orbison’s Black and White Night live recording. Great video!
I love that video!!!! Some of his best work
Love it that you don’t try to overplay. Great demo.
Zac-Thank you so much ! James Burton played on a Joni Mitchell tune called Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire, from her For the Roses recording.
I had one of those paisley teles in high-school..in 69 70 71 ,you couldn't GIVE those guitars away..I stripped the paisley off and refinished it..it was tough..it was a super sticky wallpaper type that they used..lol
My favorite ask Zac yet!
Thank you, Trevor
I loved Elvis’ TCB band. Ronnie Tutt was my favorite.❤
Thanks Zac. You're exposing me to some great players and a new "vocabulary" that I'll be adding to my style. Thanks!
PS - Junior Bravard - the missing link!
You are so welcome!
Damnit. I learned that lick you play in the intro and now I can't stop playing it. It's so damn fun
It is infectious. Too soon?
@@AskZac Never too soon
I love your channel. I just discovered it. I use to play with Jerry Reed back in the early to mid eighties.
Are you in the ACL footage?
Ask Zac excuse me for being ignorant...what is ACL...??
Austin City Limits. Yes I am the tall skinny guy to the right on your screen playing guitar and fiddle.
@@fiddlix So cool! I remember that well. What are you up to now?
Ask Zac doing a session or two. Some live performance. Teaching etc.
Nothing I didn't know one of my favorite players if not my favorite . You have great tone !
Thank you
It was fun for me as I was leaning to play guitar and learning about guitar players.
I heard Papa Gene's Blues and my thought was "Wow, whoever played on that must have listened to a lot of James Burton."
Well I was correct, James played on that track.
Yeh I've had people argue me down about that being Roy Nichols on Bottle... and Fugitive... Also, thank you for bringing up Phil Baugh on Swinging Doors in a recent episode! He's so forgotten!
Yes
Lace Sensor Pickups are very, very sweet.
Thanks so much for the research and knowledge you are providing with your series of videos, including the Truetone interviews, Zac. I'm aware of your ongoing contributions to furthering guitar playing, collecting, and general guitar-centric information on many fronts. Great overview on James' style, versatility, and influence on popular music. One thing you neglected to touch on was his unique hybrid right hand picking style (flat pick and fingers, also with the use of a banjo finger pick) that add to his signature sound. Maybe you can include a demo of his technique in a future video. Keep up the stellar work.
Thanks, and you are correct, I did not talk about the hybrid tech, and the metal fingerpick. I can't play with a metal fingerpick, so I used pick and fingers
Boy this was really great. I never knew Burton’s Telecaster was a ‘52, I always assumed it was later, because of the red color. So much great information about his gear, and his life here. There’s a few records you left out. Steve Young‘s first record features James on dobro and telecaster. That record is called ‘Rock Salt and Nails’, and it’s some of my favorite playing of his. James also has two instrumental albums out, one under his own name and one with Ralph Mooney on steel guitar. They are fantastic.
Those albums are fantastic. I have the one with Mooney on vinyl! Thanks, Alan!
He painted it it was originally white
We had that color paisley come through our pawn shop in Waco. Would’ve been around 1990.Didn’t know what I had.
John Denver Wildlife Concert. You can watch James do his thing. I’m really enjoying these videos, Thanks
You are so welcome
WOOHOOO! Another Shreveport Native, the Legendary James Burton! We have a statue of him in front of the Municipal Auditorium, an Historic building with a very treasured history. We have a statue of Lead Belly a couple of blocks from James and at least one other I can't recall atm. I know it's not Kenny Wayne. Hmmmm
I guess it could be Elvis. He has a pretty long history here in the Shreveport area with the Louisiana Hayride at KWKH and the Municipal Auditorium as well as The Strand Theater. Shreveport was a poppin place back in the day as far as music goes 👍👌😁
So it turns out Elvis's statue is about 10 feet from James at the Municipal Auditorium. I thought it might be there lol. We love our musicians in Shreveport. Proven by the fact that we have an actual Kenny Wayne Shepherd Day every year on Feb 12! 👌 I'm sure we have a James Burton Day, also. It wouldn't makes sense if we didn't.
Hello Mary Lou and all of Nelson’s recordings after Susie Q to me were most influential. My bro’s and I were on Louisiana Hayrjde in ‘59 after he left. We recorded Susie Q in ‘64 too. So we were greatly influenced by him. He really started the Tele sound. We never missed Ozzie and Harriet.
Thank you for sharing that, Gary
Thanks dude. God bless you and James. I hear he’s on the mend.
Thanks Zac for another entertaining and informative video Zac! I knew a little about Burton but now it seems I need to go researching Jimmy Bryant too! Thanks :-)
Oh and yes, your guitar looks and sounds amazing!
I’m here via the Chris Scruggs interview.
Yep... At 3:25 I agree that the quintessential "Tele Tone" was in fact not Bryant, as you pointed out on your 10 albums show- he used a jazzy, but clear neck-pickup tone. Yep, Burton invented the Tele-Twang. 😊
Agreed
Great vid Zac - I hadn't understood how important James B was.
I absolutely love how calm you are throughout any of your videos.
Thank you!
Looking forward to this Zac. You always have some cool insights.
Thank you so much, Grant. You keep this fun.
Thanks so much for sharing this info, Zac, just to give you a little example of its value, after watching this video i could watch youtube JB old videos from a new perspective. Like a 1965 tv show in which he plays the tune Love Lost. All the best!
Wonderful
Love that Paisley ❤️
ME TOO!!
I love those licks... Coca Cola Cowboy lick was in there. Love those songs
Thank you Zac.
You are welcome!
This is why I subscribe..
Thank you
Ricky Nelson was "instrumental" in getting me interested in music, playing with his band at the end of the *OZZIE AND HARRIET* show. How appropriate that James was his guitarist.
I thought I knew a lot about my hero James Burton, but you taught me a couple of things in this video. Your Tele sounds wonderful through that Deluxe Reverb. I have no way to know but I'm guessing that amp is not a reissue, or if it is, it is an older one. I used to own a true '65 blackface Deluxe and could kick myself for selling it. I am not sure if you have ever heard the work James did on my debut album or not as for many years the only way one could hear it was if they owned a pre-release promo copy.
Let me first say that there is not a finer human being that God ever put on this planet that I have come into contact with than James Burton. I not only believe he is the greatest guitarist of all time and musically love the guy, I love the man too. James is so cool that he gave me (then a 20 yr old kid interrupting a newspaper interview he was giving while sitting in the same restaurant) his phone numbers back in 1995 when I thought I would be signed to MCA Records and produced by Tony Brown. Ironically, Scott Borchetta then the head of promotion said I wasn't country enough which is a bitter pill especially after all he has done for the genre, but I digress.
Two years later I found myself recording my debut album with Producer Barry Beckett and he honestly let me do what I wanted to do, although I would argue that three of the best, and certainly the most country of all of the songs recorded for the album were never given a final mix but that was the decision of Kyle Lehning at Asylum and not Barry Beckett. One of the songs never mixed for the album is the great Jamie Hartford song that is reminiscent of Waylon's "You Asked Me To" which James played the solo on. James did not track with the rest of the band, but like pedal steel player Russ Pahl laid his tracks down in one overdub session.
Although I specifically asked Barry's assistant Regina Warden who booked him to request of him to bring a standard Telecaster (one of his iconic guitars would have been nice) as I wanted that classic Tele tone he had on Ricky Nelson, Elvis, and Haggard's records. To be honest, although I ALWAYS loved WHAT he played it seemed like everything I was hearing had that "Strat" 2nd position of bridge and middle lace sensor pickups which was not the sound I wanted for my album, especially on my recut of Elvis' 1961 hit "His Latest Flame". I had already recorded a demo in the studio with Russ Pahl without a solo like Elvis' original version. However, when we did it live on stage I felt like it needed a solo. Russ who used his Father-in-law Billy Sanford's Danelectro (that Billy used on Orbison's "Oh Pretty Woman") on our demo, played a really cool solo on it during a live performance. So that was my original intention for the solo section we tracked for the song. What I never planned though was Brent Mason taking his Tele off during the tracking session and playing the same part on his Jerry Jones. Later that week when Brent was doing some overdubs I asked him to do a Burton-esque solo on that song. He said to me, "I definitely can, but it sure would be cool if you actually got James himself". So I gave Regina the numbers I had on James and he was glad to do it. I don't know if Regina asked him about the guitar request I had or not, but he came straight to Masterfonics in Nashville directly off of a private jet from being on tour with Jerry Lee Lewis with only the red prototype of his signature model Telecaster.
My '65 Deluxe was being worked on the entire time I recorded the album, so the label rented me a 1957 Tweed Deluxe owned by a friend of mine for my guitar tracks, but it had been returned at that point, so a '65 Deluxe reissue is what was brought to the studio for him to play through. He used no effects in the studio except for on one of the songs never mixed for the album he used my script logo 1974 MXR Phase 90 and explained to me that when he used one on Jerry Lee's "Rockin' My Life Away" he had to get lucky as he wanted the phase sweep to happen at a certain point. That was the true moment I realized how much thought he actually puts into his solos. He plans out every aspect of them in his head and truly cared as much about my album as he did any of the classic stuff he is known for. I had him record a guitar pass on the Dwight Yoakam song we cut "Doin' What I Did", but during the mix it was unanimous that we preferred the approach of Brent Mason's track, BUT we did use James' licks on the outro fade in combination with mine and Mason's Tele tracks. James played an incredibly beautiful solo on the song "I'll Be Lovin' You" using that "Strat" tone I said I didn't want. It worked extremely well there because Brent had actually used a Strat on that song while I had done the hook lick on my Telecaster with the tremolo in my Music Man 210 amp. Brent's Strat and Burton's stratish tone are mixed on the record as though they are the same guitar.
When it came time for him to do a pass on "His Latest Flame" I asked him if he would mind staying on the bridge pickup as I wanted as close to a classic twangy Telecaster sound as possible. .He was fine with doing that. In everything he played we just let him do his thing and tried to stay out of the way as much as possible. On the first pass he did on "His Latest Flame" he actually also played a rhythm pattern throughout up until the solo. We ended up not using any of the rhythm stuff he played as I felt like it detracted from the simplicity of what was already going on.
I want to stress to you and anyone else who reads this that when it came time for the guitar solo, I was truly not prepared for how amazing it was. I honestly yelled out loud when the first lick of the solo after Greg Morrow's drum fill hit. Who else besides James Burton is going to hit that behind the nut bend ending on the 6m chord (Em)? That solo was something he was not going to stop working on until he got it like he wanted it. It is a composite of three guitar solo passes and if I remember correctly he punched two areas of it. Most of the notes in the solo are from the first pass.
Here are the songs he recorded for the album in their entirety. I truly believe the first two for sure are some of his greatest work that unfortunately most know nothing about.
1. "His Latest Flame": th-cam.com/video/CELehLbtxC4/w-d-xo.html
2. "I'll Be Lovin' You": th-cam.com/video/tvqPcS16xZI/w-d-xo.html
3. "Doin' What I Did": th-cam.com/video/Vj_WJhhUqw8/w-d-xo.html
4. "Hopelessly Yours" (rough mix of the unfinished master): th-cam.com/video/plNjc8RgAGA/w-d-xo.html
What a gorgeous guitar !!!!
Thanks, John
Another good one! I especially enjoyed the detailed insight on the strings (after previously hearing so much about his using “banjo strings” and nothing more). And I’m diggin’ your Spotify list right now as I write....
Thanks. I hope the playlist will help people understand Burton’s importance
This is fantastic content!
Yep... Slowly becoming my fave guitar geek channel😁
Nobody does analysis as well as you do. Thanks very much.
I appreciate that!
you seem to know a thing or two and i enjoy listening to you
keep the good work up
greez from germany
Thanks, Mr. Anderson!
Great stuff!
Enjoy all your information Zac, and your playing, 👍
Thanks 👍
Good segment Zac! Thanks man!
You bet!
Really good and interesting video, Zac. Scotty Moore and James Burton were both great -- Elvis always had great players around him.
Don't forget Grady Martin and Hank Garland. Those guys were power houses!!!
Absolutely love this video. GP by Gram Parsons and Branded man by Merle are two of my favourite albums of all time. Love James playing. Loving this channel Zac. Keep the vids coming
I will! Thanks for sharing in the appreciation of Burton
I enjoyed this. Thanks
Thanks for watching
Man, I think I need to listen to some Merle now. Great one, Zac. Thanks.
What a great video.
Thank you for this, Zac. Very informative. I've shared this
Gracias!!!!
I'm a little late to the party but thanks, I am enjoying your productions.
Welcome!
Zac,,,watching this in 4/2022. I know you love your esquire....but honestly that Paisley guitar is the best sounding of em all....especially here in my end of youtube land.
Awesome as usual brother 👍
Thank you so much, John.
That was Fascinating!
Great video. Thank you.
Looking forward to this! I love his playing on Suspicious Minds
The original recording was Reggie Young. Burton played on the live versions. Check out my Ask Zac on Reggie.
Oh wow! Thanks! I didn't know that. Going to watch that now!
Burton is flying on the live version!
James added a whole to it in the live version. Lots of cool licks. James is definitely the reason I play telecasters
@@scottluck2516 Agreed!
Yeah, used to watch Ozzie & Harriett and Ricky and his band would usually play near the end. I think James was a teenager at the time, maybe 16? Loved Gram, ELH, Burritos,etc. I also think Buck Owens and his band were huge Tele influence.
Yes
My career of buying guitars, goes back to when they were just "old" guitars, less than $200! That's still where my mindset is at! My J&D Telecaster is from China, my SG style guitar is also from China as well! Thanks to Harley Benton! Both of these were well under $200! In the '70's, Ron Wood taught me nevermind the name on the headstock, play the guitar!
Great mindset.
It's a better idea to support the American worker but if you're brokedick send your loot to China!
Hey man! Great video many thanks! Anything about his wah wah, fuzz/distorted and phased sound around '69-'74? What gear did James used for that? His fuzzed wah wah sound during his days with Elvis is so unique!!
Let me see what I can find out
The use of banjo strings reminds me of an interview with Albert Lee and he did the same thing in England back in the 60's I believe.
I am a huge Albert Lee fan
A quick search and I found this excerpt from an article:"Sometime in the late 1950s, Burton put banjo strings on his Telecaster to facilitate bending and, in short order, young pickers from Jimmy Page to Albert Lee and many more were trying to figure out how the devil he did it."
So, yes James Burton gave them the idea!
@@AskZac Going way back, Albert Lee was a big influence on my country playing style...then there's Danny Gatton!(Vince Gill too and also loved Pete Anderson's style with Dwight)
@@guitar78ish I believe it
@@guitar78ish Love all the cats mentioned
Is that James playing behind Howlin Wolf on the old Shindig show that the Stones insisted have Wolf on? You know everything. And is the bass player Delaney Bramlett, or that cat Osborne from the Wrecking Crew.
That clips is James on guitar with Wolf. Not sure on the bassist
Hi I also have a Pink paisley from 2005. I would like to buy a soul food pedal to get that James sound. What do you think?
He did not really use overdrive pedals. I did not use overdrive in my video. James did use a fuzz some in the '60s and early '70s.
Just great!!
Thank you. I hope you enjoy!
Fools Rush In! and The Wildlife Concert
Check out Jame’s playing on “The Year We Tried To Kill The Pain” by Bob Woodruff. I’m still trying to learn the nuances of the intro and solo!!
Great example of James using his sig model Tele with the Lace Sensor pickups. Nice!
wonder why James is opposed to refrets. frankly I have heard some talk that guitars are never quite the same afterwards; I have a strat that needs one badly but it's my reference guitar and Im super paranoid that even someone really good wont be able to keep the magic that it has =/
Im a bit ashamed to admit it but as much as I've listened to both Elvis and John Denver live albums, I never picked up that the same guy was playing guitar on so many of them. I got a bit of a chuckle out of you call Denver easy listening though. My dad's a child of the 70s so Denver got a lot of play on road trips and the like in my family, so I have quite the residual fondness for his music.
The playlist was a super cool idea btw. Especially love the Midnight Train!
I do not know. I have had guys I know that have had a hard time with a guitar after a refret. Some gave up on them.
IMHO it depends on who does the refret work. I have had old vintage Telecasters (1953) that completely lost the mojo and feel. I turned around and gave it to Joe Glaser and he completely brought it back. This was back in the 1980s. I moved to Athens GA and found an original 1969 Paisley Telecaster and the frets we’re completely shot when I bought it. I gave it to, at the time, was the best repair person in town. He put huge railroad ties for frets and really ruined the feel and sound of the guitar. I was offered a lot of money for it so I sold it as it was. I got to play the guitar a few years later after it had changed owners a few times and sometime during that time period someone had restored the fingerboard to its original glory and it had the original mojo in spades. I wished I had both of those guitars back now. I at least know where the 1953 is. Joe Barden has that guitar now.
Bad re-frets ruin guitars! You have to get somebody good. Glaser is always a great guy to do it.
@@AskZac I read somewhere that Steve Morse had more than a dozen refrets on his guitar, I think it was something like 17 refrets.
I think Roy Buchanan along with James was equally important for creating "Telecaster" music!
Alway great Zac
Thank you, Martin!
Hi Zac....I noticed on the intro to Gram Parsons/Emmylou Harris Ooh Las Vegas I play it slightly different to the way you do ( I play the D string 9th fret, G string 7th fret, E open and D 8th and repeated ) are you lifting off on the G string 7th fret ??.Absolutely love James and I have been playing a Fender Paisley reissue Tele since 1985 as my main weapon of choice ( Check out my bands video on you tube called Last Clean Shirt.. My Babe New Years Eve 2014 )One other thing is that as brilliant a guitarist that Albert Lee is when he took over in Emmylou's Hot band from James is that this tune never sounded the same to me as Albert never got that incredible descending Burton signature lick correctly and neither do all the others including incredible Tele players Vince Gill & John Jorgensen to name a few get this lick correctly either....Not a criticism as I have been trying to play it for over 30 years as well and I have an approximation of it but it don't sound like James playing it so if you have the time could you see if you could break it down for us as I am sure it will be greatly appreciated by many others including myself.Sorry to waffle on Buddy....Regards Tony Baker, Swansea, South Wales, UK.
Tony, so let me get this straight. You want me to play a James Burton lick that Albert Lee, Vince Gill, and John Jorgenson don't play right?
@@AskZac Hell Yeah!!....Ha Ha, Sounds a bit much when you put it like that buddy but no i just thought that as you played the intro spot on that you probably knew the tune and that you may have learned or been familiar with that lick at the end played by James Burton.
This was not a criticism of the other guys and no disrespect was intended as they are all phenomenal Tele players but to me this song never sounded the same without James.
Incidentally if you go to Mystery Train Crossroads 2010 video on you tube you will see Albert, Vince & James as well as a few others playing together and its very interesting to watch the difference in styles plus James plays that lick at the end.....Always a plus for me being a Burton fan and by the way i really enjoyed your Reggie Young video another one of my hero's as well so all the best buddy and keep on Chicken Picking.
Regards
Tony B....:)
Zac, Excellent as always.... a tad surprised You didn't mention His Fingerpick ?
I should have mentioned that. I did not mention that he uses a Fender Medium pick either. Good catch.
Zac Childs im a big fan of yours, i watch the truetone stuff when it comes out and I thank you. my question is what was Brad using for strings and gauges thanks
Thank you, Stephen. Ernie Ball 10-46 slinky
The ghost of Lightning Hopkins is visible on-screen at 4:39!
Hey Zac really appreciate the information.. awesome 👍 James is a favorite and a great influence..but also check out some Toronto Ontario Canada guitar telecaster players Robbie Robertson. Freddie Keeler.. Dominic Troiano. Bobby Star. They all played with Ronnie Hawkins in Toronto in the early 60,s...banjo string in was fairly normal...u might enjoy these guys.
They learned from Fred Carter Jr, who played with The Hawk in the 50s.
For sure he was here with Ronnie for a while then Robbie took over with a little help from Roy Buchanan .but I'm just saying we had truckload of tele players in Toronto in the 60,s who were awesome players as well so the telecaster influence was Monster LoL. I bought my first 52 for 75 bucks. wish I still had it .. keep rock n
@@mikemckenna4924 Is there info on those players?
U can check Dom Troiano..u tube.. Robbie of course...I'll see what others I can find and let u know.. thanks for your great tele videos..u really take time to explain and Show.. Very Koooool 😁
Thanks Zac!
You bet!
Lookin fwd to cking out your Spot list.
You should do one on Hank Garland sometime great content as usual!
Thanks for this!! I’m going to look up those songs. Jimmy Bryant did a lot of sessions too though. Ernie Ford, Kay Starr, Spike Jones. Not as prolific as Burton though. Did you know Burton replaced Bryant as Capitol Records country studio player?? Bryant was too demanding.
Bryant was amazing. From the stories told, it sounds like he had difficulty in getting along with others at times. Hence him not appearing on the cover of his own Country Guitar Jazz album.
Zac Childs And he was really influenced by Barney Kessell and Django. There’s a guy posting here alternate takes of: Bryant’s Boogie look it up. Rare stuff! Chris Clem is the channel name.
Dude …you have spirit orbs floating around at about 4:41 talking about Lightning Hopkins
Awesome info! I’m guessing those are 5/16” saddles. Ordering some type this week to try out.
Yes they are. Steel.
Ask Zac thank you!
Great video, as always. Maybe I missed it, but how do I find the Spotify play
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In the description