Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland - Sugarfoot rag 

Amazing guitar work! 👍

I first heard this song as a child over 50 years ago and still find myself whistling it from those memories whenever I am in a good mood.

The saddest part of his life was that if he had died in that car wreck that left him with a severe brain injury and unable to perform anymore, he'd be a famous legend. Instead, almost everyone has heard his guitar playing, but never knew who he was. RIP To A Legendary Guitar Player.

when guitar players smiled, before they learned to grimace.

Dropping by to pay my respects to a legendary guitarist. Much love, Mr. Garland..

I just discovered him , I was watching a video of Junior Brown playing one of his guitars which led me here,what a talent up there with Chet Adkins,Merl Travis and many others 🙌🏼🎸.thanks for sharing this video.

Mr. Hank Garland…without a doubt, one of the most FANTASTIC guitar pickers who ever lived! Watch him on the old Arthur Godfrey TV show backing up Patsy Cline on, “Walking After Midnight.” Pure Genius…both Hank & Patsy!

His finger work and alternate picking was extremely good

I love how he keeps smiling throughout his performance.

Monster player. Much respect.

This was the original "Eruption". As Eddie was overheard by Ted Templeman playing his "warm up" exercise, the producer heard Hank Garland playing this which was also just his little exercise to loosen up his fingers and said "Hey we gotta record THAT!".

Hank Garland had a prominent role in developing the Gibson ES 345 guitar which he played on this show and many recording sessions with major stars. From the sound of the track, he is probably playing the stereo guitar through his Ecco-Fonic model 109 echo unit then into two amplifiers or separate channels of a stereo amp for special effects. ⛦ ⛧ "Garland played the 345 on countless hits from 1958 through ’61. It’s known to be one of his favorite guitars, owing to the many sounds he obtained from the instrument, and can be heard on virtually every Elvis Presley recording date of that period, including the Blue Hawaii and Follow That Dream movie soundtracks, as well as hits by other artists including “I Fall To Pieces” (Patsy Cline), “Where The Boys Are” (Connie Francis), “Apache” (Sonny James), “Just Because” (Patti Page), and many others. It’s the guitar featured prominently in fills and the solo of the Everly Brothers’ “Bye Bye Blackbird.” Hank also used it (before its modification with a vibrato) when he appeared on TV shows like The Faron Young Show, where he played his signature instrumental “Sugarfoot Rag.” - WOLF MARSHALL. - from "Hank’s Protos - How Hank Garland Helped Gibson Develop Two Models Not Called Byrdland" by Wolf Marshall, VINTAGE GUITAR MAGAZINE, September. 2011.

A true guitar virtuoso hands down!!!!!!!

Just a touch of reverb.

Beautiful

Very pure and honest playing that just happened to be AMAZING !

That bass line and drums is pretty crucial to making this sound as great as it is too!

From the tiny town of Cowpens South Carolina .

Incredible. The really good ones make it look so effortless, at that. Who knows what he would have gone on to do, had it not been for that accident. Still, an incredible body of work for such a young guy, up to that point.

Bernie Smith lived in Louisville for many years. He appeared with Randy Atcher, and was on Randy's radio and TV shows. The radio show was The Old Kentucky Barn Dance, and part of it was broadcast nationally on the CBS radio network. The TV show was Hayloft Hoedown, and Bernie always played this tune as an intro and outro for the show. Bernie died a few years ago.

One of the greats. Of the greatest. Mr Hank sugar foot Garland. R. I. P.

George Benson looked up to Hank....What does that tell ya...Also Kudos to Billy and Amy Garland for taking care of Hank all those years after the accident...!

Dig that incredible tape echo sound!

these KIDS today have the best guitars,amps effects Hank done this with 70 y old items. WOW

I can hear the precursors to "surf" guitar in this piece, I would guess via Nokie Edwards of the Ventures who played with BucK Owens and covered this song on their "Ventures Plays the Country Classics" Album.

I love hank garland he is awesome 🤗🤗🤗

One of the Greats!!!

American southern guitarists absorbed so many styles and influences -"cowboy chord" what an insult-Hank, Roy( Clark, Buchanon), Chet , Jerry R. Glen C.Danny Gatton --the list goes on. Usually play an arch top or Telecaster-not that into effects-All in the fingers and your mind. Keep the clips coming-always amazed.

Beautiful, clear, crisp.

Iv'e been checking out guitar player from the 50's for the last couple of days. Man their was some incredible talent back then. Les and Mary, Chet and now this guy.

I know he had played this tune a bunch but I love the way he was connecting with the audience with his eye contact and nice smiile.

Um mestre das cordas, sem sombras de dúvidas.maneco - Porto Alegre-RS - Brasil.

Mi gran admiración por este genio de la guitarra!

Monster of a guitar player. Its sad his talent was robbed from him for a long time.

Hank is playing his guitar thru an Echoplex tape delay/echo unit and using a state of the art Standel amplifier with on-board reverb like Merle Travis, Chet, and so many others were using at the time.

John 5! Influence! LOVE

Hank garland was My grannys brother.We used to visit him alot when I was a teen.He once offered Me guitar lessons but I was more interested in girls! ( I hate this fact now) as well he was going to gift me a guitar.I really REALLY hate the fact that I did not get closer to hank while I had the chance..But it is what it is.

Yes, all successful songs are always disputed by others. They don't claim the failures.

His playing is noticeable on many legends songs including Patsy Clines Crazy and walking after midnight and many others.

That right hand technique is to die for…my hand can never figure it out

His jazz album with the 17 year old prodigy Gary Burton on vibes and the great Joe Morello on drums (Dave Brubeck's drummer on Time Out) is fantastic. To unwind from recording sessions, the Nashville A team would play jazz at night.

Good Ol' Hank. I love Sugarfoot Rag.

It does not get any cooler than this!

Holy shit snacks, this is great!!!!!

Bloody awesome 👍

Я люблю его исполнения и как чела.

Dude could play. I have heard he wrote this song based on his finger exercises. Elvis Presley heard him practicing and told him that was a hit record. He was right.

I loved watching Country Style USA, and I signed up for the Air Force basically because recruiter Charley Applewhite was the show's host for a time. Not to take away from Faron Young, he's still one of my all-time favorites.

Ye gods! I've known this song for my entire life, and many other songs he played on in counry and rock and roll and jazz, but just today learned about Hank Garland the man. What an amazing talent! Before today I thought Grady Martin was the best of that era, but Hank, who played with Martin, may have been better. They probably learned from each other; their left hand single note style is similar.

Awesome!

I can't believe I can't come up with the name of the emcee. Super-famous country star from the 50's and 60's. Can anybody help me out? Tip of my tongue, etc....

That's some crazy slapback delay he's using there.

FYI--- Hank played on Ozark Jubilee , hosted by Red Foley , way back in the '50's . Very early , black and White... It can be found in a search.........

Just damn!

I'm related to this man. super cool

the thing is i just got done watching the movie of him

Iconic

Never heard of this guy until today. Better late than never. He is great!!!!

That's one bad dude...

Holy wow! Ive been impressed by the wrong dudes!

great but needs more tape echo, haha

He's one of the guys that inspired Doc Watson's flatpicking style. Sure is easy to hear if you're listening for it.

Jazz Winds New Directions [ something like that ] Hank Garland and Gary Burton

Awesome

The amp sounds like an old bassman or tweed of some sorts, the effects from an old fender reverb unit. Or maybe an old tube tape echo. Regardless he made the most of equipment of his era and that's one part of being a great guitarists, finding a sound and making it yours! This is 2016 and my guitar and amp are both from 1971! The equipment from bygone years really was great!

Very relaxed pick grip and lifts thumb off pick at 30 sec.

a million thoughts for a friend 'lite'. crossed paths at my young age of eight or nine, thought Hank was above average then! we laughed at things most peoples would not consider funny. cheese and rice, He became a player relished by the world of guitar. in over fity years, never forgot a note he played, nor a word he said. kenxqed♫

I came here because of Bill Kirchen's version of Hot Rod Lincoln, where he lists all the cars/drivers that pass him by, for years I could not understand one name, it sounded like Sugar B Garrow, never could find anything online. Today the song popped into my head again and I found this link that ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SBz6ldqXVrA.html that list's "all the cars who pulled over to let him by", so today I finally learned what that person was! Sugarfoot Garland :)

It’s sounds like cripple creek a little

What a tragedy

Why have I never heard of this guy before?!

That sounds like it as a few Les Paul tricks in there.

@chuckroast01 of course! From Shreveport. Big hit with "Hello Walls" Thanks

See Jimmy Colvard do sweep picking in 1966.

Dat some wet wet reverb!!!

Garland was an early influence on George Benson.

That’s him on Elvis “ Little Sister “

I am drunk it's true. But this puts a smile on my face that hurts

great

Someone asked Chet who was the best guitar player to ever come to Nashville he said Hank garland

Watching "Crazy" on Netflix. Hope Garland's family got some money from the movie deal. Doesn't sound like Hank got royalties of anything he done. Is it true he co-wrote Jingle Bell Rock but received no credit for it? I read that somewhere.

Also influenced Rock n Roll through Link Wray...

I am related to him🦄🐶😪🐶

Play guitar on Elvis record. A big Hunk o' love.

Tocava fácil demais!

I only know this song from the snatch of it on Rhinoceros' LP

Yeah john did a fantastic cover of this but its nice to hear the original.

The 27 thumbs down on this video are from the most tone deaf MFs of all time.

I never thought that I'd ever utter these words, but there is too much echo on his guitar....Just a tad too much.

Gibson ES335.

Hard to find movie about Hank's life - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_(2007_film)

John 5, 2024

Needs more reverb!

I PLAY LIKE THAT...YEAH RIGHT!...LOL.

so fast xD impossible play this today ..... so insane realy :O the true GOLDEN FINGERS !!!

This is cool but I gotta say, Nokie Edward of The Ventures does the best version of this tune by far.

Sounds like Danny !

Wonder where that Gibby is now?

@arew234 Faron Young

Sound a little like Les Paul