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“If You See Me Getting Smaller” by Albert Lee.

Guitar gunslinger with piano chops does a Jimmy Webb tune.

As always, God bless Philadelphia and click pause on the music player located in the side bar before playing the YouTube.

“Luxury Liner” by Albert Lee. Great version of this song from the old American Music Shop show. Albert is running is some fast company here and just gittin’ it!

As always, find a drummer who can and will play a train beat for four minutes and good things will come your way then, click pause on the music player located in the side bar to your left before playing the YouTube.

Back in the day, when there were hip record stores, there was always this guy that worked at them. Hip record store guy that knew more than you did. I used to frequent places like Vintage Vinyl and Wuxtry’s up in St. Louis. Used record stores. I got in to a conversation with one of these dudes, told him I was a guitar player and he got me started on Albert Lee. The next time I was in town I picked up everything I knew about that had Albert Lee on it, Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, there was an Albert Lee solo record, “Hiding”, that had just come out. I walk up to the counter with a stack of records and hip record store guy that knew more than I did said, “You need to get Heads Hands and Feet”.

Heads Hands and Feet was the band Albert Lee was in before he became a big time known entity in the States. And, aside from having one of the all time classic band logos…

…they were a truly fine band. I loved hearing Albert in this context because it was a band. Nothing against a big batch of fine studio work but, there’s something charming about a group of longhairs getting together to corn it up rough and ready.

This morning, I was looking around YouTube and found, to my surprise, several cool Heads Hands and Feet videos. This one from a 1972, Paris show is a version of their song “Country Boy”, that later became a big hit for Ricky Skaggs.

As always….hit Pause on the music player to your left before playing the YouTube.