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just an fyi, i ordered doug’s cd through his website on september 19th and chose standard delivery. i just recieved the cd in the mail today (october 4th) exactly 2 weeks. sounds great and glad i got it!
I ordered mine at the end of July. It took a month to get here.
It is a good cd. I like the Lucinda/Doug Duets.John McLaughlin, Thurston Moore, John Scofield, Eric Clapton, Gabor Szabo, Trey Anastasio, David Gilmore, Billy Gibbons, Peter Townsand Keith Richards, Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Paige, Mark Knopfler, Carlos Santana, Andres Segovia, Neil Young, Marc Ribot, Steven Drozd, Ronald Jones, J Mascis, Gary Lucas, Ry Cooder, Jack White, Kin Thayl, Dickey Betts, Robbie Robertson, Stephen Stills, BB King, Pat Metheny, Lee Ronaldo, etc.
You forgot Chris Spedding!
Doug is great and adds so much to Lucinda’s shows. Let’s not get carried away, however. Personally I’ll take both Gurf Morlix and Kenny Vaughn over Doug. The best Lucinda shows I’ve seen all had both Kenny Vaughn and Bo Ramsey. What a combo!
i ordered Pettibone’s CD and it sucked.
totally kidding. it’s great!! Doug’s got a myspace page up that has about 4 maybe 5 tracks from the CD up there. the duets with Lucinda are great as is the rest of the CD. I received the CD in less than a week with standard shipping. all good.
Altough I like Doug Pettibone when he play with Lucinda, I don’t like his solo CD. I bought it in London after Lucinda’s concert the last year, and I sold it some months later. I thought he as a different style on its own…
Cheers.
After seeing Doug Pettibone in Copenhagen this week, I can say that he certainly is a very fine guitarist. One of the best ever? Well, that’d be a big stretch. Yes he is very very good, but there are a million other studio cats like him in Nashville, LA, etc, who can do what he does. He supports Lucinda well, but we are not exactly talking about the most complex songs ever written. One thing that’s great about Lucinda is the utter simplicity of her songs. Pettibone subtly adds grace and power to those songs, and plays some stinging leads and sublime lines, many of which were written by other guitarists like Charlie Sexton.
>Best guitarist ever? well, no.
I tell you I saw Buddy Miller play with Steve Earle a few years back, and he’s another one of these brilliant hard core studio guys, that knows how to play behind a singer songwriter type like Lucinda. I think he’s at least as good as Pettibone, if not better. And his solo stuff is good too.
Don’t get me wrong, I was really impressed by Pettibone. He was perfect!
pettibone’s as tasteful a player as you’ll find anywhere. as my favorite picker of all time said once, the important notes are not the ones you
play, it’s the ones you leave out.Ahhhh…Back to my favourite subject.
This debate always takes me back to the Guitar Olympics of the 70’s – Steve Howe- John McLaughlin – Jimmy Page – now they knew how to play really fast…….. Dave Gilmour was too slow to make the final squad which just about shoes how redundant the argument is – Jimi was God of course but everybody else was a mere disciple…. so let taste be expressed and all agree that everybody has a right to have a personal preference.
Well to my ears Pettibone does a great job for Lucinda. He plays that endearing studied-sloppy style better than anybody else, filled in for years as a singleton guitar player and is always interesting.
One day I hope to hear the live CD collection that I bought five weeks ago and have not yet received. Others have been privileged to hear and seem to approve but this honour has thus far been denied me. If and when that day ever dawns I can hear how Doug copes with sharing the aural space… my guess is with consumate ease cause he is a pro. Until then its Three Hail Marys every hour on the hour for its safe arrival.
So let all pickers pick and whilst we are on the subject – God Bless Buddy Miller – a true virtuoso and an original Gretsch Country Gentleman.
Here is a little nostalgia blast from the past.
Doug P. playing at Bogarts in Long Beach, CA Feb. 1992
He’s had a haircut or two since then. 😆http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C0mOciQ92w
lwj
I caught Doug Saturday evening. He was accompanying Mariane Faithfull at a benefit show In Lafayette, La.
Zachary Richard, Sonny Landreth and Ani Difranco.. Very nice performances by all……but Marianne Faithfull was very, very, poor. I felt sorry for Doug….he did a good job under trying circumstances. I could only think back to how good Lu and Doug sound together. Maybe someday…
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