All these old tunes takes me back to the late 1950’s when I played in a skiffle group during my time in the RAF when posted as a medic at RAF Hospital Wegberg, Germany. Made our own fun in those days. Thank you for sharing this. 👍🎼🇬🇧🇦🇺🔭
Mr. Dykes has a Facebook page where I shared this thought a moment ago. (Thanks, Frank Giffen!) "The 'live' version of you and Mr. Pomeroy performing FREIGHT TRAIN is maybe my favorite of your 'best' at RU-vid. "I met Dave in Chet Atkins' office; I was there with Duane Eddy to have lunch . . . " What a name-dropper you are, Doyle. Here it is, from NAMM 2012. This great song (which I've been playing poorly since I was 16) never got a better workout than this. If I could keep only one rendition, this would be it. Chet would have smiled down on you that day. My God, and I say it reverently, just listen to this! p.s. Just when you think it can't get better, the brilliant segue into Limehouse Blues, and then Lover Come Back to Me. Goosebumps, every time I hear this. Yes, my favorite live recording by anyone, EVER! post script 3/2/2020 posted links to Doyle's recordings with his James Olson (best-ever steel-string acoustic -- he plays same model as James Taylor) and Doyle playing Little Drummer Boy on his Kirk Sands -- best nylon-string acoustic electric. (Says who? Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed and . . . Doyle Dykes.) Shared this day at the world's largest website for musicians Harmony Central in their "Songwriting" folder: www.harmonycentral.com/forums/topic/1940624-great-melody-great-lyric-great-rendition/page/6/#comments
One of my very favorites also. And can you see Dave Pomeroy really enjoying the playing and the moment. That says it all about Doyle's playing. He is THE BEST.
I feel Tommy E has been able to capture a broader audience for different reasons and that gets him votes from more casual observers but I agree that nobody is more technically clean than Doyle. If I had to pick, I'd pick Doyle.I'll admit that I am biased after seeing him perform in person and then getting to talk with him a while. They play together occasionally and, if their ever close enough to me, I'll be there for sure! I guess when you get to their level it's impossible to say whose best??
Doyle is better than Tommy, cleaner, more controlled and he plays on time. Tommy just plays for speed, Doyle plays for quality of tone and for the song. Because Tommy is off on a speed trip every song, much of the time he plays sloppy and quite poorly.
The best country music Travis picking guitarist joins the best bass session man in Nashville. These two guys make it sound like a 4 piece band. Incredible playing.
I know! He is the reason I started using Taylors a few years back and I've bought 3 now. They should've tried harder to keep him as he is not only among the elite players in the world but a great human being also. Oh well, Taylors loss, Fenders gain...
As I understand it, Guild (Fender) offered him things Taylor wasn't willing to match. No ill-will here. As you may know Doyle is a wonderful human being. He's doing great though.They've already built a DDSM Guild guitar and he seems busier than ever. He and Bob Taylor will always be good friends.
I was at the thimb picking contest the year they had doyal play as the headliner and they put him in the thumb picking hall of fame that night and he was truly humbled by this and he said his guild deal had fell through on him and that he had a years worth of bookings with the guild people and the cancelled all his gigs and he said it had left him in a terrable spot trying to get jobs to take the place of the guild jobs he lost so I'm not sure what happened but soon after he was playing goldens and this made me sad. He is such a incredable talent everyone who plays a guitar should be familiar with royals work.
Are you asking why Doyle is not playing a Gibson? He is actually on a Fender stage and Guild is part of Fender guitars. So naturally he would be playing a Fender product. All the amps in the back seem to be Fender. Over the years I have seen him associated with several brands Taylor, Godin, Gretsch, etc. Chet played Gretsch, and then had a contract with Gibson so they made the Gibson Country Gentleman during that time., Later when Chet died, the family took up the relationship with Gretsch again. And Gibson has stopped making all the Chet guitars.
Taylor guitars were always a Martin wanna be. Other luthiers can make better. It's all in the wood and materials. I played a Chinese with Adirondack Spruce that beat all the Taylor's and Martin's in the store. $1000. Guitar. Go figure?
