| I'm a fan of them too,but I don't know why there aren't more threads about them.Marshall Grant has a book out about his time with Johnny Cash and the Statler Brothers.He came into a store in Nashville where I was playing for his book promotion.I was playing with a guitarist real quietly without an amp on gut strings.I was playing fast walking lines,all slapped,some triple slap stuff,etc,working my ass off for no money.Then Marshall comes over,takes my bass,plays one measure of root five double slap,then tells me I'm doing it all wrong and that he better not catch me playing like that again.
Have you heard some of Bill Blacks stuff after Elvis? I think it was his own band called the "Bill Black Combo".Great stuff,I think it might have been played with a bass guitar,but god it really swings.As Washington DC's own Bill Kirchern likes to say " Swings like Satan's own dick"!!!! | 
