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Fresh
from backing early hits by Tennessee Ernie Ford and other Capitol
Records artists, Speedy West, country music’s first pedal-steel
guitarist cut a series of staggeringly wonderful sides in the
early ’50s. Here’s the best of West—accompanied
by his perennial sidekick, lightning-fingered guitarist Jimmy
Bryant—featuring a series of fiery instrumentals such as
“Speedin’ West,” a song so beloved it was tabbed
by many a country DJ as his theme song, balanced out by reflective
ballads such as “West Of Samoa” and tranquil desert
excursions like “Sunset.” Tracked 50 years ago, this
material sounded timelessly wonderful then and is just as verdant
and invigorating today!
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