{"id":98594,"date":"2015-04-13T08:21:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T12:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=98594"},"modified":"2024-08-23T18:34:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T22:34:32","slug":"ricky-nelson-and-james-burton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=98594","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Nelson and James Burton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Burton, of course, is known for being Elvis&#8217; guitarist throughout the 1970s, but he played with everyone, most notably Ricky Nelson. Listen to some of that old Ricky Nelson stuff. Listen to Burton&#8217;s guitar solos. Astonishing stuff. Completely contemporary, thrilling stuff. James Burton is still alive. Me and Charley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=69813\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">went to go see him in 2013<\/a>, and it was such a memorable awesome night. Burton played with legends. Burton is a legend. I went on a bit of a Ricky Nelson\/James Burton tear yesterday and found a couple of clips. <\/p>\n<p>The first one is from 1958, from <i>Ozzie and Harriet<\/i>. Ricky and James sit down and play acoustic guitars together, an extended duet. Wonderful!<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qiuGGagp67Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The second clip is from when James Burton played with The Nelson Brothers (Matthew and Gunnar Nelson), sons of Ricky Nelson. They play a really fun Ricky Nelson song, &#8220;It&#8217;s Late,&#8221; (listen to how strong the 1950s are in the lyrics! The couple stayed out too late, and they will be in big trouble!).<\/p>\n<p>Ricky Nelson&#8217;s original is a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nBnhQ_wjkP8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The contemporary version, with Nelson&#8217;s sons and James Burton, is awesome as well. <\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BnkCxcStvIA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nZoom in on what James Burton is doing on that guitar in that last clip. Goosebumps. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Burton, of course, is known for being Elvis&#8217; guitarist throughout the 1970s, but he played with everyone, most notably Ricky Nelson. Listen to some of that old Ricky Nelson stuff. Listen to Burton&#8217;s guitar solos. Astonishing stuff. Completely contemporary, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=98594\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[2714,2723],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98594"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193824,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98594\/revisions\/193824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}