The Guitar That Changed The World!
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Scotty Moore deserves this album's title, exclamation point and all. His big, hollow-body Gibson electric provided the architecture that allowed Elvis Presley's raw talent and charisma to assume its shape on those early Sun and RCA singles. Ten years after cutting the original 1954 version of "That's All Right," Moore went back into the studio to cut an all-instrumental album of those same songs. It wasn't the same, though: Elvis was missing, of course, and so were madcap bassist Bill Black and Memphis producer Sam Phillips. This was a Nashville session featuring Elvis drummer D.J. Fontana, saxophonist Boots Randolph, guitarist Jerry Kennedy, and countrypolitan producer Billy Sherrill. It might as well have been called "Chet Atkins Picks on Elvis," so slavish is Moore's tribute to his original hero. The 1964 session, finally reissued on CD, will be of interest to Atkins fans and rockabilly revivalists trying to cop Moore's licks, but everyone else is advised to stick to RCA's various permutations of the Sun Sessions (such as 1999's Sunrise). --Geoffrey Himes
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