Reggie Young

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Reggie Young playing.

There's multiple players credited with guitar on that album, but Reggie Young is a very distinctive guitar player.

I think that's him.

Um, and, uh, you know, it's just, it's, it's a little on the sterile side, you know.

Yeah, definitely.

It was, it was, I believe the guitarist, uh, Reggie Young, he kind of...

They had gone out to dinner after one of the days working in the studio.

He was like, "You know, guys, like, I th- really think you need to spend some time with these words," right?

Dobie's celebrated version of Drift Away was recorded in '73, Mentor Williams at the helm.

The session lineup included major talents like guitarist Reggie Young, whose riff really anchors that track.

There's also the rhythm section that blended soul, country, and soft rock perfectly.

And then there's Dobie's warm, emotional, soulful delivery that turned the song into a liberating, transcendent escape that glided all the way to number five on the Billboard Hot 100.

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I mean, Reggie Young and-

Wow

... uh, G- uh, Greg Morrow and some great players.

And he goes, "This is awesome." He goes, "You gotta play it for Pat Quigley." And so I played it for Pat.

Next day I went back down and played it for, and Pat looked at me, and he goes, "When can you..." He didn't know I'd already recorded it.

And you know, Dylan, that's the only song in my whole career that I ever, you know, since the label I was on didn't want to make a record, so I went, I, the, this song, I believed in it so much that I, I went and hired Reggie Young, all these guys.

I did a session on my own dime.

I know you know The Highwaymen.

Reggie Young.

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Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Chris Christopherson.

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O'Connor won three Grammy Awards, in 1991 for Best Country Instrumental Performance, in 2000 for Best Classical Crossover Album, and in 2016 for Best Bluegrass Album.

He was named the Musician of the Year by Country Music Association six years in a row.

We have Reggie Young on guitar.

So this is not a normal country session player sound.

Like Hank Williams Jr. had Reggie Young and stuff on guitars for him.

This isn't what that sounds like.

And then here's a solo.

That was his gateway drug, and eventually he got into really traditional stuff and bluegrass and all that, but this was the gateway drug.

That lead guitar sounds like Eddie Van Halen, but when you go to the Lone Wolf personnel, here are the guitar players who played on this album.

Steve Gibson, Wayne Turner, Billy Joe Walker Jr., and Reggie Young.

Those are all old country session guys.

I had seen one in Memphis before I moved to Muscle Shoals.

Reggie Young played one over at American on a couple of the tracks, and so I got me one, and I loved it.

Loved the sound.

It just is so different from regular guitar and everything.

And I had one heck of a rhythm section.

At the time, they didn't know it, and I didn't know that everybody was going to become famous.

But I had, Reggie Young was playing lead guitar.

I was playing rhythm.

Was he 17 when he wrote that, or 16? Wasn't he like a

teenager? He was a young guy, and we started to record it, and I had the A-team, the best of the best, David Brigg, Reggie Young, Eddie Bears.

Wow.

either Mike Brignadella or, I think Mike was on that.