Track Listing

1. Intro/Sunnymoon for Two
2. Land of Make Believe
3. Blues Newburg
4. 88 Elmira
5. Secret Love
6. Apache/Surf Medley
7. Caravan
8. Linus and Lucy
9. Orange Blossom Medley

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74710 in Music
• Released on: 1997-04-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live

Album Description
The master of the Telecaster burns it up on this live set from 94.

About the Artist
Guitarist DANNY GATTON has been a local guitar legend in his native Washington, D.C.-area since the early '70s.

A student of vintage American music, GATTON has always been hard to pigeon-hole, blending jazz, country, blues and rock. He toured briefly with country legend Roger Miller and rockabilly great Robert Gordon. He was part of an all-star jazz ensemble CD, New York Stories for Blue Note Records. He appears on Chris Isaac's release San Francisco Days. In 1991 GATTON gained long-overdue national attention with the release of his Grammy-nominated Elektra debut 88 Elmira Street. "Gatton is a do-anything guitarist who can wail in any style" (Billboar~). "God Himself rnight well be impressed by Danny Gatton" (Esquire). He and his band played a series of international music festivals including the Montreux Jazz Festival, appeared on the David Letterman Show, Austin City Lirnits and MTV Live and was pronounced "1991 Face to Watch" by Entertainment Weekly. .

Customer Reviews

I love this cd
I was lucky enough to have seen Danny Gatton play live and this cd really reflects what his show was like...great! I also like that it was mixed and produced by his band,it just makes it more real somehow.The liner notes are by the people who knew him and worked with him and they're really interesting. It's so sad that he's gone but this cd is what it was like when he was alive.

Danny's Last Hurrah
Recorded a month before his tragic suicide, this new trio of Danny's plays mostly jazz at this date (with some rockabillty thrown in; Danny was never far away from bluegrass). He opens with a fast blues, as usual, and plays numbers that he has played many times before. One difference is that he is playing on a new guitar: with two necks, one a regular Tele, and the other a six string bass. To judge by the applause, he is playing to a small house at the Birchmere. Not to draw a bigger crowd, to a genius of his caliber, must have been disheartening to say the least. But Danny seemed to prefer his small band of hard core devotees to road travel, so he sort of chose it.
The music is superb. "Secret Love" beyond beautiful. "Blues Newburg" done very slow, is the best interpretation I have heard. The "Surf Medley" is fun (my son tries to play "Apache" like Danny"). "Caraven" is given a rousing treatment. And "Orange Blossom Special Medley", Danny's usual ending number is a wonderful romp through bluegrass, funk, and jazz.
This is one of my favorite Gatton albums. I think it will be yours, too.

The best, simply the best!
I was a late listener to Danny's music. I thought I'd heard "the best" and owned a lot of great player's music. Then someone loaned me Hot Rod Guitar, and I've never been the same since. Gatton is the most unorthodox and inventive player I've ever heard. In Concert is SUPURB (inadequate word, actually)! It seems there's never a moment that he doesn't surprise me and his playing makes me laugh consistently (I think, "it's impossible to do that on a guitar!"). Buy this CD, and appreciate greatness! I'll bet Danny and Lenny Breau are having a time!!!