SCOTTY MOORE

"I met Scotty Moore in the early 50's when we were in Memphis. That's the place where the Mississippi Blues met Nashville Country Music -- Thus the begining of Rock and Roll. Not many people can claim to be the first at anything, but Scotty can. Although he's too modest to admit it, he was the very first Rock and Roll guitar player. His style of guitar playing set the standard in 1955 and is still being copied today some forty years later. I was honored when Scotty called and wanted me to get the original members of The Bill Black Combo together and do a track with him on his new album. This project was long overdue. Scotty Moore is an original, and it is good to see him out there again doing his thing as only he can do it."

-- Reggie Young

"The first time D.J. Fontana performed with Elvis, Scotty and Bill, he was hidden behind the curtain. That was the way they did it in those days at the Lousiana Hayride in D.J.'s home town of Shreveport: Drummers were meant to be heared and not seen. The anonymity did not faze D.J.
"My job was to stay out of their way", he says.
Interestingly that tradition came to represent, sybolically at least, D.J.'s style as a drummer. The result is an understated, elegant style of musicianship, more related to jazz than country, that set the standard for all drummers in the early days of rock 'n' roll.
D.J. is an innovator who instinctively understands that less is usually better. It is that concept of music as an art form whose sum total is greater than its individual parts that has made rock 'n' roll what it is today. Over the years, D.J. has done his best to help kee the equasion honest."

-- James Dickerson

TRACK LIST

"Deuce and A Quarter" - Keith Richards & The Band
"I Told You So" - The Mavericks
"Locked Up In The State of Illinois" - The Bodeans
"Goin Back To Memphis"- Bill Black Combo
"I'm Gonna Strangle You Shortie" - Joe Ely with Lee Rocker
"Bad Little Girl" - Cheap Trick
"Soulmates" - Ronnie McDowell & The Jordonaires
"Hot Enough For Ya" - Steve Earle with Lee Rocker
"Strange Love" - Joe Lewis Walker
"Is All Of This For Me?" - Tracy Nelson
"Unsung Heros" - Ron Wood & Jeff Beck

REAL AUDIO SAMPLES

"Deuce And A Quarter" - Keith Richards And the Band

"Locked Up In The State Of Illinois" - The Bodeans

"Unsung Heros" - Ron Wood and Jeff Beck

MP3 DOWNLOAD

"Deuce And A Quarter" - Keith Richards And the Band

"Locked Up In The State Of Illinois" - The Bodeans

"Unsung Heros" - Ron Wood and Jeff Beck

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