Brian Setzer Duets album.......

I saw someone mention this in another part of the forum and the idea is so cool. If you Had a chance to pick a Track and guest artist(living only please) to play on a Setzer Duet album who and what would you choose?

Id love to hear Brian play with keef (hes still alive isnt he?) doing "T n A" Trading off verses and solos...

No bites huh. wow another thing I suck at.

Hell, I'll play.

Here's the thought behind my picks. We've all heard Brian do rockabilly, big band, straight up rock and roll. But combos that would lead to something we've never heard, something so far off the mark it's nearly impossible to hear in our heads.

I mean, we all know what a Setzer/Jerry Lee Lewis duet would sound like. that's easy to hear.

The most conventional duet would be a Brian Setzer/Harry Connick Jr (think of Harry's much overlooked, kind of funky, Star Turtle album). Setzer on guitar and Connick on piano with or without vocals. How sweet would that be.

Or what would Brian Setzer sound like with Mick Fleetwood pounding out the beats? The possibilities.

Here's one to think about. Setzer bops on over to Paisley Park and cuts some tracks with Prince, with Brian on fretless bass guitar. We've never heard that. How screwed up would that be?

Setzer and Bootsy Collins. One of my favorite bits of the Wolfgang album is that funky fuzzy seventies thing on "take a break guys". More of that please.

How about Setzer and Feist. Her latest album has some of the most interesting sounds I've heard in a while. What's that duet sound like?

Or what if that bunch was the Brian Setzer super group, with The Purple One as producer. Insane. That would be the most messed up album ever, if not the greatest album ever.

I think i'd like...

Setzer and McCartney and/or Ringo...

i think that would be just awesome incarnate.


Cori

Chillicat wrote:

I think i'd like...

Setzer and McCartney and/or Ringo...

i think that would be just awesome incarnate.


Cori

I'm sure you'll all shoot me down in flames for this but i've liked very little of McCartneys work since the Beatles and although the man is rightly so a legend, i don't think he'd do Brian justice. I'd deffo go for Ringo out of the two.

On a Strange note i was actually in McCartneys house on wednesday unfortunately the great man wasn't there just the housekeeper.

NOW : i know i'm gonna get laughed off the forum but I reckon Brian with the BSO could make Christina Aguilera do something decent, i'm not a fan of her music but she has a voice.

Brian Setzer and Doc Watson!!! That would be the coolest!

Hotrodtodd wrote:

I saw someone mention this in another part of the forum and the idea is so cool. If you Had a chance to pick a Track and guest artist(living only please) to play on a Setzer Duet album who and what would you choose?

Id love to hear Brian play with keef (hes still alive isnt he?) doing "T n A" Trading off verses and solos...

I completely agree with that suggestion. I suggested in an earlier post that Brian team up with Capt. Teague (aka Keith Richards) for a duet, so let me mention another song that would be perfect...

The Rolling Stones' "Stray Cat Blues".

I said this awhile back, but I still think a guitar duet with Les Paul would be the coolest!

How about Yngwie Malmsteen in light of the classical album - they are both approaching classical from 'unusual' directions!

Or how about Dolly Parton - good singer and plays a mean banjo!

An obvious match made in heaven would be the Blasters.

If you could have dead guys then surely Elvis is the undisputed choice -worlds greatest ever rockabilly singer with all time greatest rockabilly guitarist!

Personally -on a controversial note(!) - I always thought that Scotty Moore was over-rated. Besides those iconic great solos on the Sun stuff and a few others a lot of the rest is a bit mundane.

I'd like to hear Brian & Richard Hawley get together. Hawley wrote one of the best rockabilly songs in years, "Serious". It's on his masterpiece record, "Lady's Bridge". Yeah man....Brian and Richard.....THAT would be one hell of a team-up.
-Tommy

HEY GANG!!

Hows about...Brian and Hardcore Techno....Brian and Ambience...Brian and Acid House...Brian and Demis Roussos?

...GOTCH YA !!!!!!!!!!!!... Cheers Pete.

I like the idea of Brian and les Paul doing Hold that tiger.......Or A Gypsy Jazz Django type thing.

A Brian Setzer/ big Bad Voodoo Daddy reunion would be great! The Alex Henderson reunion would be fun but all of this would have to go down in AC and I will not wear a hat because we know my past history with Casinos and headwear.

Chad

Wow tough question........think think think.......

KT Tunstall ? and Cher ? come to mind.
As soon as I log off something else will hit me lol.

Billie Joe Armstrong ? is another.

Got to agree with Shakin Seethings about the Mc Cartney thing.
How about Robert Plant or George Thorogood? That would be AWSOME!!!!!!!

PICKIN' PETE wrote:

HEY GANG!!

Hows about...Brian and Hardcore Techno....Brian and Ambience...Brian and Acid House...Brian and Demis Roussos?

...GOTCH YA !!!!!!!!!!!!... Cheers Pete.

UNTHINKABLE!!!!!!

carboncat wrote:

Got to agree with Shakin Seethings about the Mc Cartney thing.
How about Robert Plant or George Thorogood? That would be AWSOME!!!!!!!

I agree with all of the above also.

I think Brian played with Robert Plant in the Honeydrippers at one point....but that is definately a top notch team. How about Alicia Keys doing some jazz stuff. She is one of the best singers out there and can play a mean piano. I would love to see a pure jazz Brian Setzer album, it would blow people away.

I did see something on youtube with Robert Plant and Brian with the BSO,I think they did "Good Rockin Tonight" together

Pompado'er wrote:

How about Alicia Keys doing some jazz stuff. She is one of the best singers out there and can play a mean piano. I would love to see a pure jazz Brian Setzer album, it would blow people away.

Thats a GREAT IDEA Would make a great album!!!!