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Space Guitar: The Essential Early Masters | 
| Artist: Johnny "guitar" Watson
Label: Varese Sarabande
Category: Music
Buy New: $11.98
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 139622
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 066611
UPC: 030206661125
EAN: 0030206661125
ASIN: B000621448
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 2 days
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| Tracks:
| • | Highway 60 | | • | No I Cant | | • | Motorhead Baby | | • | I Got Eyes | | • | Walkin To My Baby | | • | Whats Goin On | | • | Thinking | | • | Half Pint Of Whiskey | | • | Space Guitar | | • | Gettin Drunk | | • | You Cant Take It With You | | • | Cuttin In | | • | Broke And Lonely | | • | I Just Wants Me Some Love | | • | Sweet Lovin Mama | | • | In The Evenin | | • | Gangster Of Love | | • | Space Guitar (Unissued alternate version) |
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Album Description
Includes Watson's best mid-'50s recordings for Federal Records and early `60s sides for King. Also features one of the biggest hits of his career, the top 5 hit "Cuttin' In" and the stratospheric instrumental "Space Guitar." As a bonus there is an earlier second take of "Space Guitar" that's similar in structure but utterly different improvisationally.
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| Customer Reviews:
Early Guitar Watson Showcase February 27, 2008
Terence Allen (Atlanta, GA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Johnny "Guitar" Watson is best known for his hit song "Gangster of Love," but when most of these recording were made, he was just a young blues singer/guitarist who was trying to find his way.
This nice collections shows off the young Watson, who was even billed as Young John Watson, show off his singing and playing skills on such cuts as "Half Pint Of Whiskey," " Cuttin' In," "Half Pint Of Whiskey," "Gettin' Drunk," and two versions of his classic "Space Guitar."
Watson was a very talented singer and player who in his later years embraced an eccentric funk star, but these songs show his blues beginnings, and reveal a talent that still isn't as appreciated as he should be.
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