Originally Posted By: MarioD
Originally Posted By: etcjoe
[quote=MarioD]...............
Tony Mottola doesn't get his due often. With his many albums of "easy listening" renditions of various popular songs I think people forget what a formidable guitarist he was. Very tasty arrangements, very fluid and fast player. Could play with anyone and had a good long career.


I agree but Johnny Smith is #13 on the list and some of his albums are "easy listening". Also what about Wes and those "string" albums?

I am not starting a war but most all of the guitarist listed did covers like Tony did. And I am not knocking any of the guitarist on the list. I just think they missed an important guitarist. YMMV


I certainly wasn't knocking Tony for those albums. Wes Montgomery did it, Johnny Smith did it just as you said. They had to make a living! I like those covers actually. They are very soothing and the playing it top notch on every one of them. When I was first learning guitar I used to listen to several Tony Mottola albums and work on figuring out the melodies and then trying to figure out his chordal backgrounds and scales etc. Good Stuff.

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