All Over Again

The Shade Trio
recorded 21 October 1972 at the Black Garter Club
Hal Smith: lead vocal & rhythm guitar
Zoomer Roberts: lead guitar & harmony vocal
Ross Swall: bass

I knew the guitar solos from most of Johnny Cash's Sun records, and that knowledge served me well in the years I played with Hal Smith. But this song -- which Cash recorded for Columbia circa 1959 -- was news to me. I therefore invented a guitar break that I felt certain would be close to what Luther Perkins must have played. Hal praised it and I kept playing it. When I finally heard Cash's recording years later, I was surprised at how little my solo resembled Luther's.

This was recorded on a Panasonic 8-track deck. There is a glitch where the tape changed tracks. Hey -- it was 1972!