I have listened to each song and have formed an opinion.
 This opinion is not proof that my head is stuck up my ass.
 This opinion is not proof that I'm an "effing moron."
 This opinion is not anything more than my opinion.

 We OK on that?

 The CD is a compilation featuring:

 01 Cherokee - sounds like Les Paul playing a fat-bodied Gretch guitar thru a Fender Champ.
 02 Lappin it up - sounds like Brian Setzer and his Big Band
 03 Melancholy Serenade - Wasn't that Jackie Gleason's Theme Song?  Nice late 50's sound.
 04 Nit Pickin - Roy Clark's Foggy Mountain Breakdown meets Scotty Moore
 05 Sky King - Maybe best song on the CD, could've been on Beck's Blow by Blow
 06 Homage to Charlie Christian - Sounds like Homage to Chet Atkins to me
 07 Sleepwalk - Dreamy, Who knew Angelo Badalamenti could surf? Great song!
 08 In my Room (Beach Boys) -
 09 Sun Medley - Just what you'd think, he does Elvis/Scotty Moore and does it great.
10 Cruisin' - More Clark, Jansch, Atkins - it's good country pickin'
11 The Simpsons Theme Song - Gatton's Danny Elfman impression.
12 Dolly's Ditty - Sounds like 'Book 'em Dano' chasing a bad guy on Hawaii Five-O

     Are we seeing a pattern here?

13 Ice Maiden - This is a jazz piano solo. Is this Gatton playing?
14 Well, you Needn't - a great mechanic's song - spectacular playing, some of the best
     finger-pickin' I've ever heard, but in all fourteen songs, ...where is the passion?
     Gatton plays like the grandson of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.

     Write this down - Gatton is great - he's a monster guitar player.
     After one listen thru, I'll say Danny Gatton was a fantastic session player.
     Nobody could hear this guy play and say bad things about him,
     but I'm just not a big fan of rockabilly music.

     If you like sock-hop rock and roll, more power to you.
     He could've been the best guy in The Ventures.
     That's not meant as a cut to Gatton, he's just playing 40-year old music.

     After one listen, I can put this guy in the technical Hall of Fame.
     Like watching a good pool shooter, inside 30 seconds, you know what you've got.
     Thirty seconds into Gatton's playing on any song and you know you're hearing a master.

     He touched on the blues in Sky King, and I loved his Gleason tribute,
     and I understand his need to touch The Simpsons and The Beach Boys.

     When a great guitar player hears a tune, he MUST master it, or it'll drive him crazy.
     Great guitar players sleep, eat and breathe guitar, so much that his bandmates wonder
     how he got so weird. I know a guy named Rick who often turned down sex with spectacular
     looking women because he'd rather go back to the hotel and practice his guitar.

     So, ...

     ...if we're grading on a curve, Gatton gets an "A."

     I'd sure like to hear his Hendrix, his Page, his Gibbons, his Slash.

     ...but that doesn't make him bad, and it doesn't make me bad.
     I just prefer hard rock over Roy Clark/Chet Atkins finger pickin' Nashville excitement.

     ...and, on the off-chance you're saying,

     "Koresh, what does he want?
      For what is BartCop holding out?
      What's his idea of exciting guitar work?"

      I thought you'd never ask.

      Click  Here  to hear some exciting guitar work as an  file.

      Click  Here  to wisely save this masterpiece as an MP3 file.

      This is exciting guitar.
      This is passion.
      This is what's worth paying $500 a ticket to see live and up-close.

      It's also 33 years old, so it sounds newer than Danny Gatton.
      The bad news?

      Let's say Danny recorded his stuff in 1998  (a guess)
      He had thirty years to move the discussion forward from what was recorded in 1968.
      He had the tools to tear the sky open, too, ...but no...

      He played rockabilly, instead.
      Instead of opening doors or exploring new territory, he played better rockabilly.

      Bottom Line?

      Danny Gatton?
      He's very good on guitar, one of the best technicians ever.
      But he doesn't make you jump up out of your chair and scream, "F-me."
      I think there's a reason he didn't sell a lot of records.

      Somebody wrote and said his label was concentrating too much on Metallica
      and just let Danny marinate without any promotion, but how big is the market
      for a better Dick Dale or Reverend Horton Heat?
 

      So, in closing, we give Danny his props for technical work,
      but not everybody is a big fan of fifties music.
 

     ...but again, thanks to Norm Plankity for his generosity.