Tiny w/ Billy Jack Wills Band is just outstanding! I've got an old LP & I love it. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, by that time w/ Billy Jack, Tiny was on the 5-String, where as during his Bob Wills tenure he was still playing the Gibson only using 4. On the cover of my Billy Jack LP he's got the Bigsby 5.
The Bigsby was built in 1952.
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Hi Folks - I've read this forum as a nonmember for a while now, but just had to respond to this thread.
Ditto to all the Paul Glasse electric stuff (especially Talk that Talk on his Road to Home album).
Ditto to all the Tiny Moore stuff.
I also wanted to throw this out there: Johnny Gimble's Still Fiddlin' Around record has got a couple killer electric mando tracks on them. Especially the tune Mandolopin'. It's got some more of those trademark Gimble diminished runs, and is a really cool composition as well. Recommended to me by the one and only Mr. Glasse himself, so you know it's a good one.
Try listening to Randy Elmore if you get a chance. He has worked with Johnny Gmible for twenty years and is quite inventive. Mandolin is tunned like Johnny's with a "tunomatic" bridge set for four strings. Ricardo
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