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Guitarist Joe Edwards was a Nashville session player for more than 30 years and still performs on a semi-regular basis with his wife Jan as he celebrates his 80th birthday in 2013. Most of those shows take place in the Nashville area and in neighbouring Indiana.
Edwards also played on the Grand Ole Opry for 48 years, entertaining audiences with his guitar and fiddle talents.
In 1969 producer Chet Atkins put together a four-LP box set of guitar instrumentals for Reader's Digest under the title Golden Guitar Magic. All these recordings came from the vaults of RCA Victor and included Joe Edwards playing Chet's composition Trambone.
Trambone
Many, but not all, of the tracks on the LP box set were reissued by Reader's Digest on a two-CD set in 1995, with the title shortened to Guitar Magic. It is out of print, but if you're searching for a used copy it should have one of the two covers below.
There was another Guitar Magic CD issued by Reader's Digest in 2007. This contains a number of tracks by Francis Goya and is not the one you're looking for, although it's pretty good in its own right.
As for Joe Edwards, you can keep up with him and buy his CDs from his website. Here he is playing Red Wing on both guitar and fiddle, with a bit of video trickery.
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