Charlie Byrd - "The Guitar Artistry Of Charlie Byrd" Analogue Productions label_Vitamin and the then-recently disbanded Smiths

and the then-recently disbanded Smiths

an unquenchable urge to swing

forests of pine and mesquite

twenty years on

undeniable

Charlie Byrd - "The Guitar Artistry Of Charlie Byrd" Analogue Productions label_Vitamin and the then-recently disbanded SmithsPicture this: it's 1960, and the world is still reeling from the Eisenhower era, poodle skirts, and the faint hum of early rock 'n' roll trying to steal jazz's thunder. Charlie Byrd's album The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd drops like a perfectly timed rimshot, ready to remind everyone that jazz can be sophisticated, soulful, and swing like nobody's business. It was at Edgewood Studios in Washington, D. C. where Byrd, the Virgina born guitar wizard,