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A Holiday Gift for My Listening Friends
Introducing the open-me-first musician George Barnes
Dec 25, 2023
I’ve posted several articles extolling the twisted arrangements of Christmas music by arranger Charles Albertine and The Three Suns on A Ding Dong Dandy Christmas. But I recently discovered the identity of the hyperkinetic electric guitarist on the track below — George Barnes. If you have a little time for exploration, check out one of the most unjustifiably forgotten musicians of the 20th century and post your observations here.
For your holiday cheer, here’s a more sedate (but not sedated) track, from 1946:
