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Thread #79458   Message #1962181
Posted By: greg stephens
09-Feb-07 - 08:17 AM
Thread Name: Lonnie Donegan's guitarists
Subject: RE: Lonnie Donegan's guitarists.....
Keith Sellers: couldn't agree with you more. We were doing a trial recording of "Nobody's Child" with the Boat Band the other day, and we listened to Lonnie's original LP version a few times. I went out and borrowed an arch-top just to try to recreate Denny Wright's sound a bit. What a stunning track that is, the high point of a fantastically influential LP. And while it's obviously Lonnie in the centre of the frame, the guitar work just makes it super-perfect.
(John Peel, I recall, thought the Frankie and Johnny on that record was one of the greatest tracks of all time). That LP was well worth the vast chunk of pocket money I shelled out on it in 1956 at the age of 11(my first LP).