Ventures - Beat Guitar Genius

Grumpy is sharing this fantastic Ventures album. I've got a lot of their stuff but this was a newy to me. One of the tunes sounds like reworked classic but reverbed up. As a commentator said in a forum I visited did the Ventures ever make a bad album? Definitely not I reckon. Recycled yep but so what. Go here for this goody.

Beyond the Beach

Another 19 instromental tracks for your enjoyment.

Smells Like Surf Spirit

Here's another spiffy surf compilation with modern surf bands featured. Surf Spirit.

Surf Twang from Down Under

Here's a repost from Sandy's Surfspot. This is a great album of Aussie surf instrumentals. Highly recommended for those who haven't grabbed it yet.

Surf Twang

Aki Aleong & the Nobles

Here is a legendary album featuring Aki Aleong who produced the album and didn't do anything else and the Nobles a pretty good surf group who were known for a couple of classics such as Earthquake and Hiawatha. Well worth listening to if you haven't got it already.

Adrian & Sunsets go surfin

This was being shared by Frisian who runs a great site by the way but now here it is.

Al Casey - Surfin Hootenanny

Here's an album containing 35 tracks of the best of session guitarist extraordinaire Al Casey.

Al Casey was one fine studio musician. He worked as rhythm guitarist on many of Duane Eddy's biggest hits. It was the big guitar style he developed that Duane adopted. He also worked with Jody Reynolds, whose guitar instros were similar to Eddy's. His work with Duane was via producer/writer Lee Hazelwood, who also contracted him for this, his first solo album. Al was almost totally unfamiliar with surf when he agreed to do this album. There are some rough spots that demonstrate that, and a few numbers that are really outside the envelope if you subtract the reverb on his guitar. Sundazed has captured a couple of alternate takes, probably nineties remixes from session multi-tracks [3 or 4 tracks at best]. If you get past the Blossoms aka the K-C-Ettes ghastly vocalizing and the blues numbers, there are some real gems here. This is also the first time in stereo from the master tapes. The Stacy CD is from vinyl, or at least it sure sounds like it. (Phil Dirt Reverb Central).