Saturday, September 1, 2018

Hard to Find On Youtube, So Get It While It's Hot

This vid is on again off again on youtube.  Happened to look for it and it's there right now so I'm putting it out.

Let's watch the man play one of his best (imo)


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  1. Hey! I played this piece on the piano when I was 11 years old, believe it or not.

    Malaguena was originally written for the piano by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona in 1933 as the sixth movement of a suite called he Andalusia.

    I learned it to please my father who was crazy about Oscar Levant's recording, which I found very inspiring needless to say.

    Even though it was written for the piano, it sounds vowed good on the guitar. Must be Chet Atkins' own transcription of Lecuona's work. I wnder if he ever wrote it down? --

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    1. Don't know Franco. He did record various versions of it. He liked it as much as we do apparently.

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  2. If you'd like to hear the composer, himself, play Malaguena as orginally written, you can hear it at this link

    https://youtu.be/F2ksNyyuViQ

    Another selection by Ernesto Lecuona is included there which later became popular as a song called The Breeze and I.

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  3. I remember as well struggling through this... a wonderful selection... thanks..

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    1. 1st tune I really tried to play on guitar Bunk. 13 at the time.

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  4. Not fond of this song except when my uncle played it on the piano ...but only because I ADORE my uncle :-)

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  5. Chet Atkins was one of the most guitarists in the world. I was never much of a CW fan
    but my mother was. I grew to appreciate the classic CW artists as I grew older. The
    new age country music is like rap to me. It is nothing more than pop music dressed up
    with nasal tones.

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    1. UNK. Chet said (quite accurately) that modern country music killed country music. I agree. Modern country music makes my skin crawl. I'd actually listen to rap than that crap.

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  6. I expected Chet to start rapping at some point during the interlude to this. Way to get my hopes up... :/ seriously cool acoustic. Finger pickin' good.

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