Topic: Tarheel Slim--No Time At All, Trix 3310

[jpeters609]

Thanks, Peter. I shoulda known it was Jimmy Spruill. Wild Jimmy was quite an electric guitarist, to be sure. And like Mickey Baker (not to mention the great Grady Martin), his work can be heard on a lot of records recorded by others in the 50s and 60s. There was a collection of Wild Jimmy Spruill's recordings that came out on CD last year. I think it was called "Scratch 'n' Twist." But unfortunately it doesn't include the songs with Tarheel Slim (or Wilbert Harrison's "Kansas City," which features a fine solo by Spruill).

[oddenda]

For those interested, Spruill played with thumb and fore-finger with NO picks. He also used no effects other than his amp and his guitar controls. This I know from personal experience. "Brilliant" is not full-on enough to describe Jimmy. The third "NY Fenderman" was Joe Richardson (a/ka Fender Guitar Slim, a.o.) - all did marvelous studio work in the late fifties/sixties.

Peter B.

[David Kaatz]

MP3 available:
http://mississippimoan.blogspot.com/2010/08/tarheel-slim-no-time-at-all-1974.html

[David Kaatz]

By the way, my brother Al had and may still have an unusual instrumental 45 of Slim playing an open tuning piece that I once learned and unfortunately have since forgotten. 

Dave

MP3 available:
http://mississippimoan.blogspot.com/2010/08/tarheel-slim-no-time-at-all-1974.html

Quoting myself twice...
Now listening to what I downloaded from above link earlier.  Great sounding album.  This set definitely contains the '45 sides I mentioned.  No Time At All is one of the tunes I was thinking of.  I once played this, it has been so long it is probably going to be a total relearning.  I'll have to get to it!

Dave