While listening to my favorite jazz station I heard this classic version of Rte 66, Nat King Cole Trio. The solo of his guitar player did not sound like either a guitar, or a guitar solo. It sounds like electric mandolin taking a solo at about 1:40 in this YouTube version of the same recording. Not only is the tone and range very mandolin, the notes are very un-guitar, and not that clever. Did his normal guitar player switch to mando for this recording? I can't find info on it.
The song is in G, a mando-friendly key. Playing along with the solo it lays right in mando range, as do the comping chords that you hear fitting with piano. I am sure the player begins on 7th fret A on the D string.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCeGi6a-eK4
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