With a career spanning 3 score years and including work ranging from BB King to Elvis, Etta James and Roy Orbison, session guitarist Reggie Young delivers a classy instrumental album that oozes style and substance. He teams with buddies like Clayton Ivey-Catherine Marx-Jim Brown-Mike Rojas/key, David Hood-David Hungate-Dennis Belfield/b, Chad Cromwell-Shannon Forrest/dr, Jennifer Lynn Young/cel and a Jim Horn-led sax section teamed with Steve Herman/tp and Charles Rose/tb. Throughout the seven tracks, Young takes you through a sumptuous mix of soul, country and jazzy blues, never pretentious, and always swingingly professional.
STAXY horns team up with a hip backbeat for Young’s lyrical work on “Memphis Grease” and his rich tone glistens on “Soul Love.” A vintage R&B love song has Young cozying up to the strings on “Seagrove Place” and he lets the strings sigh with Young’ cello on “Jennifer” and the mellow chamber’d “Exit 209.” He knows when to lead, support and fill in, making like the perfect conversationalist in a roundtable discussion. A perfect “How To” if you want to be a respected sideman; exuding warmth and class.