RIP Reggie Young

Didn't know who he was.
I do now.
Thanks Reggie.
"Guitarist Reggie Young, who played on an estimated 150 Top 40 hits, including Elvis Presley’s “Suspicious Minds” and “In the Ghetto,” Dusty Springfield’s “Son of a Preacher Man,” Willie Nelson’s “Always on My Mind,” Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” and Dobie Gray’s “Drift Away,” as well as the electric sitar on the Box Tops’ “Cry Like a Baby,” died yesterday (Jan. 17) at his home in Leiper’s Fork, Tenn. The cause was complications related to a heart surgery he underwent in recent years. Young was 82.
In addition to those hits, Young accompanied the Highwaymen, the supergroup featuring Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson, on record and on tour. He can also be heard on recordings by Billy Swan (“I Can Help”), Billy Joe Royal (“Down in the Boondocks”), B.J. Thomas (the sitar in “Hooked on a Feeling”), J.J. Cale, Etta James, Sinead O’Connor, Herbie Mann. Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Gladys Knight, the Staple Singers, Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers, Joe Cocker, B.B. King, Aaron Neville, George Strait, the Crusaders, Roy Orbison and Dolly Parton. '
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