{"id":511,"date":"2008-04-07T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2008-04-07T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T18:29:00","slug":"danny-gatton-88-elmira-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2008\/danny-gatton-88-elmira-st\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Gatton &#8212; 88 Elmira St."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gattondanny88elmira.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-514\" title=\"Danny Gatton -- 88 Elmira St\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gattondanny88elmira.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"884\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like that tricky panoramic photograph? I can&#8217;t find a credit for the album art in the liner notes. Danny Gatton grew up in Southeast D.C. and this album title was his address. Anyone who is a serious student of guitar probably knows of Mr. Gatton, but I don&#8217;t think his audience ever got much broader than that. <em>88 Elmira St.<\/em> came out in 1991 and it was his major label debut. The record has a little of everything that can be considered American roots music, including jazz, blues, rockabilly and funk. I have played this album at least 100 times and I&#8217;m still stunned by the imagination, soul and ferocious speed of his playing.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Gatton committed suicide in 1994. It&#8217;s hard to believe it&#8217;s been that long. His fans included Les Paul and Steve Vai. He was the guitarist&#8217;s guitarist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UN3i89Va3HE\" target=\"_blank\">Hear and see<\/a> Danny Gatton play<br \/>\nMore about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danny_Gatton\" target=\"_blank\">Danny Gatton<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gattondanny88elmira.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like that tricky panoramic photograph? I can&#8217;t find a credit for the album art in the liner notes. Danny Gatton grew up in Southeast D.C. and this album title was his address. Anyone who is a serious student of guitar probably knows of Mr. Gatton, but I don&#8217;t think his audience ever got much broader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,452,453],"tags":[585,634,689,761,80],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-g","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-blues","tag-danny-gatton","tag-funk","tag-jazz","tag-rockabilly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}