Amos Garrett anybody?

Bob-Dubery

This afternoon I'm listening to Geoff Muldaur is Having a Wonderful Time. Most of the backing is by top session players such as Ron Carter, Bernard Purdie, Ron Carter.... and on several tracks there is guitar from Amos Garrett.

I know the name from.... somewhere. Doesn't matter.... he gets solos on two tracks and plays some lovely rhythm parts. This guy is a wonderful player.

Anybody else know anything about him?

Squonk

I had an Album in the 70's, Paul Butterfield album that had him on it, was still my Woodstock days, so I was collecting some very dodgy albums by Alvin Lee, Country Joe etc. Also bought ISB, strangely enough. Ordered them from Lenny at the old Hillbrow Record Library. Around 77/78

I cant remember anything about the album though, so have no idea about his playing etc.

But Geoff Muldaur sounds interesting, I must have a go

Bob-Dubery

Squonk wrote: I had an Album in the 70's, Paul Butterfield album that had him on it, was still my Woodstock days, so I was collecting some very dodgy albums by Alvin Lee, Country Joe etc. Also bought ISB, strangely enough. Ordered them from Lenny at the old Hillbrow Record Library. Around 77/78

I cant remember anything about the album though, so have no idea about his playing etc.

Well the first thing that caught my ear is the bending. He's one of these players who bends more than one string at a time, and also starts a lick with a bent note (or notes in this case) that he then brings back down. So he sounds like a pedal steel player at times. Jerry Donohue gets up to similar tricks.

But Geoff Muldaur sounds interesting, I must have a go

IMO the one for you to start with is Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. Live album, recorded at a small club somewhere in Germany. Just Muldaur and an acoustic guitar. I've found that the most accessible of his records, and there's some great finger-style blues playing on that disc.

Bob-Dubery

OK... youtube is our friend.

Here's some clips of Garret (I didn't include a rather grainy clip I found of him singing a country song with the immortal first line "your heart is as cold as the tv dinner that you threw at me last night")

Doing Santo and Johnny's Sleepwalk (a tune I have some affection for)

A rather oddly edited clip in which he eventually (about 3:43) gets around to playing Bert's Boogie

A bluesy live track with Maria Muldaur (once married to Geoff Muldaur, Garrett seems to have worked a lot with both Muldaurs)