Joel Paterson Let It Be Guitar - Joel Paterson Plays The Beatles (CD)

(Ventrella Records) 16 tracks, digisleeve

After his Christmas album Hi-Fi Christmas Guitar Joel Paterson is back with a Beatles cover album! Let It Be Guitar! Joel Paterson Plays The Beatles is a collection of instrumental, guitar-oriented songs from the Beatles catalogue and shows the characteristic mixture of guitarist Joel Paterson from vintage jazz, exotic, blues, rockabilly, western swing and country.

The album presents new arrangements of these familiar melodies with a variety of musical styles and guitar sounds that influenced Paterson's music, including Les Paul, Chet Atkins, Jörgen Ingmann, James Burton, Buddy Emmons and Ernest Ranglin. The liner notes on the album are by the way by JD McPherson. Recorded in Chicago at Reliable Recorders and Paterson's home studio with Joel on guitar, pedal steel and lap steel; Beau Sample (Devil in a Woodpile, The Modern Sounds, The Fat Babies) on bass; Alex Hall (The Flat Five, The Western Elston, The Fat Babies) on drums and Chris Foreman on the Hammond B3 organ.

Paterson is one of the busiest musicians on the roots music scene and plays with The Modern Sounds, the Joel Paterson organ trio with Chris Foreman, Devil in a Woodpile, The Western Elstons and many other projects in Chicago.