Danny Gatton

[Paul Wargo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyjtW-rvWoQ&feature=related
I've been wanting to put something on by the late great Danny Gatton for awhile now so here's another attempt on my part to post something. In the related videos there's a really cool beer bottle slide performance you might enjoy also.

well......hear goes

[Singin Jimmy]

Excellent.  I was not familiar with Gatton.  Tragic story - I looked him up on Wiki.
I looked around for the beer bottle slide and didn't find it but linked to Gatton (when I ran it) was a 12 year old Joe Bonamassa playing Danny Gatton's guitar.  It's worth a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyjtW-rvWoQ&feature=related

I started listening to Bonamassa (now 31 years old) last year when I found him (probably recommended) on emusic.  Enjoy

[Mark M]

Paul, thanks for the great vid! I have never heard his version of Sleep Walk and what an intensy wild version it is and much different than the original Santo & Johnny version that I attempt to play on the lap steel. If I remember correctly the original version of that song was one of the very first vid's featured on Youtube Vid of the Week, I'll have to look back in the archives now out of curiosity.

What a mastery Gatton had of the electric guitar and is why he was known as the "Tele' master" (tele': short for the Fender Telecaster that he played). Paul, thanks also for the Gatton music you've given me that has helped broaden my knowledge of this great player.

Jim, you somehow you added the same link as Paul ( did some experimenting and found that in order to add a new link you have to open Youtube seperately and not as a new window). Since I also LOVE Joe Bonamassa I went searching for that vid of the 12 yr old Joe... I think is is it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLB900atJFs&feature=PlayList&p=FF6C3578FF07EC70&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=22

Absolutely incredible for a boy that age. At 12 I was struggling with Gloria..... the song.

Also, I found this beer bottle solo by Gatton   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfBF4rr7FiA

Very cool and I've now found a new way to wipe down my guitar neck!

Mark

[Big Jer]

Great video, Paul!  Also enjoyed Little Joe & the bottle/towel jam.  Good job finding them, Jim & Mark.