James Burton Plays A Chet Tune with Ricky Nelson

[dgallent]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiuGGagp ... re=related

Burton plays thumb style with a straight pick. He was a big fan of Chet Atkins and Chet really loved James playing as well.

[keener]

I love it!
Brings back lots of memories. Top-notch talent. Broke my heart when Ricky was killed ... one of my favorite singers. And James Burton picked better 50 years ago than I ever will.

Great video!

[Vidar Lund]

Here´s Chet and James with Albert Lee having a good time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzppllg_ ... re=related

[Mike Nye]

I'd sure like ta have that Rick that JBs playin' ! ! !

I think that Rick might have had more than one of 'em, as I had an interest in a local guitar shop with a guy who was a friend of Rick's manager at the time of his death.

One day he showed me the same model guitar, but tobacco sunburst with triangular inlays without the leather, that he claimed was Rick's, or he'd owned at one time.

It was one beautiful looking & sounding instrument that played lika wet dream, as it was effortless to play like their electrics ! ! !

Someone who'd probably read this post just e-mailed me this link a little while ago. This might be that same guitar, but I don't recall the pickguard being that elaborate. The two gentlemen described as Rick's companions were JB (left) & Master of the "Slap-bass' James Kirkland.

http://www.rickenbacker.com/gallery_image.asp?archive_id=460&gallery_year=1950

Not having made acoustic guitars since the late 60s, Rickenbacker made a failed attempt to set up shop at their Santa Ana facility to again produce acoustic guitars a few years ago, but unfortunately produced only a small handful due to their inability to acquire the skilled and/or semi-skilled labor needed to do so in that area from what I'd heard.

Supposedly, they'd licensed a luthier in the SF Bay area, who does some beautiful work from what I've seen, to produce 'em in limited quantity on a per-order basis.

[smokymtguitar09]

What a treat! That is one of the most enjoyable clips I've seen posted. I was big fan of that TV Show, mainly because they featured Ricky's singing and a guitar player, whose name I did not know at the time. When I was first learning to play guitar the song "Lonesome Town" by Ricky was part of my private practicing on my Sears Silvertone acoustic guitar. The tune was slow enough to capture the chords (of the 3 or 4 I knew at the time). I wonder if James Burton ever recorded any of Chet's signature songs?