Man Of Mystery - Embassy's Swingin' Guitarist 1959-1962 CD

Bud Ashton
Man Of Mystery - Embassy's Swingin' Guitarist 1959-1962 CD

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Man Of Mystery gathers 28 original recordings releasesd on the famously infamous UK label Embassy Records.
It presents the work of the label’s guitarist Bud Ashton who twanged his way through covers of most of the big UK instrumental hits of the late 50s and early 60s.
For many years Bud truly was the ‘Man Of Mystery’ that the title of this collection bills him as.
It eventually became known that Bud Ashton was simply a catch-all name for any guitarist who Embassy hired for their sessions.
Among those who claimed their session fee as Bud are believed and in many cases definitely known to be Vic Flick, Big Jim Sullivan, Bert Weedon, Tony Moretti and mostly Bob Rogers of the Ted Taylor Four.
Man Of Mystery features every Bud Ashton 45 released between 1958 and 1962, along with a number of tracks credited to the equally pseudonymous Steve Stannard Group which feature a prominent Bud Ashton guitar break.
As you would expect from musicians of such high calibre, Bud’s cover versions of hits by The Shadows, Duane Eddy and other leading instrumentalists of the era are as first rate as Embassy’s vocal releases so often are, and in many cases almost on a par with the originals.