This week's guitar-solo is not necessarily a solo, but a song in general.
It's "Little Wing" ; written by the great Jimi Hendrix, perfected (and perhaps bettered) by Stevie Ray Vaughan, and imitated by practically every good guitar player in history. Hendrix had a knack for writing guitar part that not only created chordal structure tot eh song, but included melody in the same arrangement. So, most of the time it sounds like two guitars. Originally written for the electric, Monte Montgomery rocks this out on an old beat-up acoustic. While still sounding like the original, Monte really fancies this version up a bit (maybe a bit too much at times) but throws in a few different flavours (including classical, jazz, and a bit of flamenco).
Beware: this clip is about 10 minutes long. While the whole song seems to be a solo and certainly worth watching, the "payoff" for me comes somewhere between 5:20-6:30. Wowzers
Thx to Sunny for introducing me to Monte Montgomery. Enjoy.
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