Cruisin' Solo 3 Cliff Gallup Gene Vincent

Here is the third solo.  See my earlier post for the first two solos.

Junior Parker's Love My Baby

Junior Parker's of course did the original version of Elvis Presley's  "Mystery Train."  If you listen to Junior Parker's version of 'Mystery Train" it is much slower in tempo than the Presley version. "Love my Baby" was the b side to Parker's "Mystery Train" and listening to the track it sounds like Presley, Scotty Moore and company may have taken the arrangement of "Love my Baby" and used it for "Mystery Train."  What Scotty Moore did not do as is widely claimed (look up Mystery
Train on Wikipedia) was borrow the riff from "Love my Baby" and use it on "Mystery Train."  Here is the transcription to "Love my Baby" and yes it is great rockabilly style track it does not have the same lick as "Mystery Train."

Happy birthday Bob Stinson

This is probably the only non rockabilly post I will put on here.  A few days late but happy birthday  to the greatest ever.  RIP.

Wanda Jackson's I wanna waltz

Here is the solo from Wanda Jackson's "I Wanna Waltz." This is a countryish style solo that I believe was likely played by Joe Maphis.  This song is interesting in the it alternates 4/4 time with 3/4 time.  It also showcases how strong a country singer Wanda Jackson was and in fact I prefer her country style singing to her more deliberate raw type of vocals.  This solo is relatively simple and easy but still quite effective.

Cliff Gallup Cruisin guitar solo 2

Here is the second guitar solo from Gene Vincent's Cruisin' with Cliff Gallup on guitar.   The most interesting part of the solo is the dissonant open string double stops in bars 5-6.  It seems like Cliff Gallups bag of tricks was pretty endless.

Vince Taylor's Brand New Cadillac

Sorry about not posting the other two Cruisin' solos.  I will get those up at some point but haven't had time to tab them out.  In the interim I thought I would post a tab of Vince Taylor's Brand New Cadillac.  This is a rare rockabilly track in a minor key.  As most of you probably know the Clash did a terrific version of this on the London Calling album and this has also been covered by the Brian Setzer Orchestra.  Thanks to Mark Barling who has written a great rockabilly tab book for some input and help into the solo.   Check out his book it has some great Johnny Burnett and Cliff Gallup tabs.

http://rockabillyguitarsolos.yolasite.com/

Cliff Gallup's Cruisin' Solo 1

Here's Cliff Gallup's outstanding first solo from Gene Vincent's "Cruisin."   This solo features his famous triplet pull off's and cool syncopated double stops over the IV (C chord).  I'm having a hard time distinguishing whether the chord in bar 10 stays on D or drops to C but this solo sounds okay when played either way.  If I get time I'll to put up the other two solo's over that course of the next week.