https://youtu.be/veSQNQpH9Pg?si=3AtYis6k9GmuPYYA
I may well have blogged something about this song somewhere along the lines, but it if did it was a long time ago and it deserves a re-run anyway.
The tone which the late texas blues master ALBERT COLLINS come up with on the 1970 instrumental HARRIS COUNTY LINE-UP, which barely lasts more than 2 minutes, is one of the best you'll ever hear coming from a Telecaster guitar.
Collins released three albums around the butt end of the 60`s and very beginning of the 70`s which were both poorly produced and commercial lemons, HARRIS COUNTY LINE-UP being one of the few salvagable tunes off those early albums.
Collins would only achieve recognition and commercial success after recording a string of critically acclaimed blues albums for Alligator records from 1978 onwards, if I had to nominate an unmissable album of his for any blues fan it would have to be COLD SNAP which was released in 1989.
To me Albert Collins was the second best Texas blues guitarist of all time, second only to Stevie Ray Vaughan.
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