Happy 62nd Birthday to Davey Johnstone. He's been the lead guitarist for Elton John for most of the last 40+ years. But he's also played with Alice Cooper, Meat Loaf, (Long) John Baldry, etc. He can play rock, folk, bluegrass - guitar, mandolin, fiddle. You name it, he can do it.
In 1973, he put out a solo album - Smiling Face. It's a superb LP, which inexplicably didn't sell worth a crap. It's so rare that you can't find any YouTube videos of its tracks, and the CD version at Amazon is only available as an import, and costs (new) $101.01. Sheesh.
We saw Elton and Leon Russell a couple years ago during their Union tour, and Johnstone was there, rocking away. So Happy Birthday, Davey! I for one love your music.
BTW, the title track was written for his (at that point in time) toddler son, who also made it onto the album cover. Kewlness.
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