Posted on 12/27/2014 12:51:45 PM PST by lowbridge
Winfield Scott "Scotty" Moore III (born December 27, 1931) is an American guitarist and recording engineer. He is best known for his backing of Elvis Presley in the first part of his career, between 1954 and the beginning of Elvis's Hollywood years. He was ranked 44th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2011. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.
Scotty Moore was born near Gadsden, Tennessee. He learned to play the guitar from family and friends at eight years of age. Although underage when he enlisted, Moore served in the United States Navy between 1948 and 1952.
Moore's early background was in jazz and country music. A fan of guitarist Chet Atkins, Moore led a group called the "Starlite Wranglers" before Sam Phillips at Sun Records put him together with then teenage Elvis Presley. Phillips believed that Moore's lead guitar and Bill Black's double bass were all that was needed to augment Presley's rhythm guitar and lead vocals on their recordings.[citation needed] In 1954 Moore and Black accompanied Elvis on what would become the first legendary Presley hit, the Sun Studios session cut of "That's All Right (Mama)", a recording regarded as a seminal event in rock and roll history. Elvis, Black and Moore then formed the Blue Moon Boys.
For a time, Moore served as Elvis's personal manager. They were later joined by drummer D.J. Fontana.
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Some great pictures at the site! Thank you, Lowbridge, for posting this.
Scotty’s stuff was the first I learned after switching from acoustic to electric.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AAOM-BRxcg
“Train I ride...sixteen, coaches long...”
Still get goosebumps when I hear that thundering echo/reverb sound of his. The guitar break on Hound Dog is still one of my all-time favorites too.
He at least used to live in the Detroit area, in retirement. Thanks lowbridge.
Happy Birthdat Scotty....a fine guitarist...I like his style.
been trying to play like scotty for awhile now, for me this is best attempted on a 335.
It’s a fingerpicking thg
nice, I like the sound of P90s,
I have an assortment of very desirable les pauls and fender strats and rare guitars, but use my 1969 ES-335 with bigsby to emulate his Gibson L5 or Super 400 or 295.
My finger picking is not so good,
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