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Thanks, Roland, for taking the time to transcribe my part.

Jethro loved the Count Basie sound, which is what we were after on that track. He enjoyed playing their ensemble parts in a chordal style...

Jethro got some of his guitar style, especially those chord voices you hear on "Straight" and "Square", from Roy Lanham of the Whippoorwills fame. . There are some big stretches in those chords, and...

Right, timbofood...no tape. Must have been the pre-coffee floaters this morning.

And speaking of floating, that's what Jethro's fingers seem to do all over the neck. The ease that he played with...

That's his Washburn, with some tape over the name, I think. As Jethro sometimes said, "...the Gibson mandolin company has asked me to announce that tonight I am playing a Washburn mandolin."

The only D'Angelico Jethro owned that I know of was a guitar, a 1948 Excel that was given to him as a brand new instrument by his wife. He used to bring it out and let me thump on it when we'd pick...

They were both Gilchrists. I've played a few of the Collings guitars, and they're well-built and they look good, but they're not what I'm after in an archtop.

You may be right about the set up,...

I've played two...one was a blonde 16 inch that sounded sensational. The sound just leaped out, and it had that powerful "woof" we rhythm guys love. I could make that guitar fit in a duet, small...

This is a great tune...the sinister aspect of the original has always appealed to me, especially with that diabolical banjo clanking away.

When I'm learning a swing number, I enjoy going back...

Archtops are different beasts, and the variance in tone, volume, and feel from one to the next is great. I've played them for a long time in many different situations, and I'm hopelessly intrigued...

...and the tune has a good verse to it. Whenever I hear someone today who sings or plays the verse to a standard, I feel that person ought to be given some kind of prize.
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Great to hear Chris and all get after this fine tune and give tribute one of my favorite breaks of Bill's.

It also warms my heart when people start pulling out metronomes to compare recordings. ...

Thanks to Ryk Loske for posting that great clip of John Pizzarelli and equating it with the general spirit of Jethro, Don, and the rest of the greats. Spot on, sir.

Chet was very much influenced...

Doug Dalton, who played with the Whippoorwills was a pioneer, and they also had some commercial success.

Paul Buskirk was a tenor banjo player and guitarist who could rip it up on the mandolin....

The singer from Wisconsin was probably Jerry Wicentowski. He and Andy are old friends.