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Can anyone help on finding recordings or information on Reggie Young? This will be appreciated as I cannot seem to do well on a Gooooooogle search.

Many thanks

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"One never retires from music, any more than one retires from breathing."

He played on some Hag songs including "Running From Life" and I think he played On "Only Daddy" by Waylon, not positive about that. Great player with a unique sound. Sorry I can't help more.

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Howard

If you are referring to the guitar player/session man,Reggie Young, here are a couple of tidbits that might help. Reggie was a prominent session player in Memphis,TN before moving to Nashville and continuing there. In Memphis,he recorded with such greats as Ace Cannon,Bill Black's Combo,Charlie Rich, etc. After his move to Nashville,I kind of lost track, but I know he played on a lot of hits that came out of Nashville during the 70's and 80's. Reggie's creativity is almost legendary!
He played on some of Merle Haggard's hits during the 70's and 80's, as well. I'm pretty sure that the guitar rides on "Think I'll Just stay here and drink" were split between Reggie's playing and Merle's attempts.
~~W.C.~~

Check out the late '70's album (I don't remember the name but it includes "I Can't Help Myself") by Eddie Rabbitt. Really tasty stuff by Reggie and Sonny Garrish.

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Bill Cunningham

I could be wrong, but I think thats Reggie Young doing the cool guitar intro on Dobey Gray's song "Drift Away" Reggie did a lot of Nashville session work including Waylon, The Highway Men, and Eddy Raven to name just a few, Reggie was on tons of stuff in the 70's-90's.

Brent Mason cites him as a mentor for studio work. Even toured with the Beatles on a package tour (He was not with the Beatles) with a group.

Reggie was the guitarist on Eddie Bond's early Mercury rockabilly sides, such as Boppin' Bonnie, Slip, Slip Slippin' In and others. Those songs and solos belong to the bible of classic rockabilly and most of the rab guitar players have cut their teeth learning them, including myself. I believe Reggie wasn't much older than 17 when those were recorded, real classics.

Here's the allmusic.com link to 6 pages of credits--that should keep ya busy ...
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE47816D84DAD7F20CE9D374AE9BE7CFA07D342F99750234558C0B3345B9E147BE052E9DDD2B5E577B479A9B32CAE5A06D9CBEE469CA1&uid=CAW01060404140 9&sql=11:rauvadskt8w4~T4

For the country stuff Haggard's "I Think I'll just Stay Here and Drink" is an often copied classic example of Reggie stretching out...

Some highlights from his years in the "American Studios" house band in Memphis:

Elvis: "From Elvis in Memphis" among others

Dusty Springfield: "Dusty in Memphis"

Herbie Mann: "Memphis Underground"

B.J. Thomas: "Hooked on A Feeling"


A well know rock guitarist I know has often told me that you could learn all you need to know about "soul music" guitar playing from listening to Reggie's playing on "Drift Away"<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Pete Finney on 04 April 2006 at 11:08 AM.]</p></FONT>

I'm sure John Hughey could offer much help. Reggie and John left Memphis for Nashville about the same time.----j----

Somewhere online is either a web page or article dedicated to him. I know i read it once. He talked about hits he played on. You need to...ready? Google it! LOL

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-johnson

Here's one link for you: http://www.vintageguitar.com/artists/details.asp?ID=73

and another:
http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/interview_reggie_young.shtml

and still another: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.lewry/younginterview.html

Do you have time for one more?


http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Reggie%20Young:1927117176 age=discography:b=71

I'd complain about the smiley in my link but I find it humerous and I don't know why it appears.

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-johnson


<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by erik on 04 April 2006 at 04:04 PM.]</p></FONT>

I've always loved Reggie Young's playing. His fills on the last verse of "Amarillo by Morning" and his solo on the Travis Tritt tune "Anymore" are some of my favorite "record licks". <font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Bob Watson on 04 April 2006 at 10:31 PM.]</p></FONT>

For as long as I have been buying records, finding Reggie Young's name among the musicians' credits has been a guarantee for quality music. His playing is always tasteful, inventive and fresh, whatever the style.

Checking my album catalog, I find I own about 70 albums with Reggie Young on lead guitar – and probably a few more anonymous ones. He was on most of Moe Bandy's very best albums, which I tried to copy lick-for-lick back then (on steel, tele and strat). He's played on albums by Gary Stewart, Tanya Tucker, Hank Thompson, Red Steagall, George Strait and John Anderson, just to name a few.

He's also a superb acoustic player. On Swedish public radio there's a weekly country(-ish) music show that did a long interview with RY some years ago, where he played some ad-lib solo acoustic guitar pieces in between that were stunningly beautiful. I wish he'd record an entire album like that.

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Pete--

"Dusty in Memphis" One of my favorite records ...

I believe he also played the descending double-stop lick on Billy Swan's huge hit "I Can Help". A lick I choked on a few times during my geetar tenure with Billy in the mid 80s. -MJ-

About a year or so ago, one of my cousins & his wife was at a resort in Arkansas and ran across a man & wife and noticed he had a guitar case. Since my cousin don't leave home without his guitar, he asked the guy if he'd like to do some jamming in the lobby later on after they got settled in.

To make a long story short, they did and the man & wife turned out to be Reggie Young & his wife!! Reggie told him some stories about playing with the Highwaymen & Haggard and a few others. In fact, it was Waylon who introduced him to his now wife.

My cousin said they were very humble and super nice people, not to mention his awesome playing. I would have loved to have been in on that jam!!

I did some intense research on Reggie and had emailed it to them so they could see just who they had jammed with.

It's great when you can run across this caliber of players and find out they are just really nice common people, before you find out how accomplished they are.

I read in Guitar Player Magazine that Reggie Young had so much session work he could not do it. Someone told him to charge double, he did and still had too much work. What a player.

Thanks to all. A lot of good reading about Reggie. Age? I remember Phil Baugh telling me that he and Reggie were born on the same day - same year. I believe in 1936.

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"One never retires from music, any more than one retires from breathing."