A couple years back Johnny posted in his blog this video with King Curtis and Al Caoila’s Guitar Boogie Shuffle–is this good stuff or what?!? Man, that rockin’ Sax sound from King Curtis 🙂 I’m going to start looking up some more stuff on Al Caiola himself as I’m ashamed to say that I don’t know that much about him as I would like to; seems like he was one of the premier players of his day—he sounds amazing. Does anyone know if King Curtis and Al Caiola did anything else together besides this one song? I would love to get my hands on their stuff, if there is more of it! 🙂
that’s because Caiola was pretty much just a studio session musician. we’ve all heard his playing on many hit songs but he didn’t do much as a leader like Curtis did….this was just 2 session guys laying one down!
That is amazing…makes me wanna go get a custom track made for this one and play it. Better yet, I’m thinking I can show this to my guitar friend Nathan whom you’ve seen on a video here before and see what he and I can come up with together, this is just one of those songs that I simply have to do. Nice thing about what King Curtis is doing here is that he’s keeping the licks/riffs pretty simple, seems like that’s always the best approach.
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