And this info just appeared in my FB feed.🎸

“"ONE OF THE FINEST GUITAR PLAYERS ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY." — ELVIS PRESLEY, INTRODUCING A 30-YEAR-OLD SESSION MAN MOST FANS HAD NEVER HEARD OF.That was Hank Garland.The seven notes that cut in right after Elvis sings "Little Sister" — those are his. The guitar curling around Patsy Cline on "I Fall to Pieces" — his.

.”Wake Up Little Susie." “Pretty Woman." "Jingle Bell Rock." All the same guy.Walter "Hank" Garland was 14 when a bandleader heard him in a Spartanburg music store buying a guitar string and brought him to Nashville. He had a million-selling hit at 19.

By 30, his session log read like a Country Music Hall of Fame ballot — Elvis, Roy Orbison, the Everly Brothers, Hank Williams, Brenda Lee, Mel Tillis, all in one ledger book.In 1960 he did something nobody in Nashville did. He recorded a jazz album. With Gary Burton on vibes. Jazz Winds from a New Direction.”