The first side of the album was R&B, and the second side was jazz. “I didn’t have the musicianship that I would have loved to have had, but that eventually came. Sometimes I made it more, but most of the time… well, let’s just say I made it. Every song came to me the way it came to me, and I tried to live within the context of the song. I didn’t have anything special going on, but I was growing quickly.
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I was pretty much a flat-out guitar player at the time.
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“What's New?“ – George Benson, Giblet Gravy (1968) I’m a mixed bag of all those people.”īelow, Benson shares some stories about the recording of five especially noteworthy tracks from his remarkable career. Wes Montgomery was a big favorite of mine. King, Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, Barney Kessel… And of course, there’s Tal Farlow, Hank Garland, and Grant Green. “I studied everybody – Charlie Christian, B.B.
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“I kind of take from everybody and it comes out like me,” he says modestly. Starting in the mid ’70s, Benson’s golden singing voice – he actually started out as a vocalist, performing in clubs at the age of eight – landed him on AM radios, but nearly a decade before, he established his reputation as a supremely tasteful instrumental craftsman whose warm tone, effortless speed, (you never got the feeling he was sweatin’ it) and hook-filled phrasing combined to form an instantly recognizable signature sound. “They said, ‘Man, we loved what you did with our music.’ After that, I was glad I made the record.” He adds that his wounds healed quickly once he heard from the Beatles themselves.