TABLATURE TUESDAY: TRAIN KEPT A-ROLLIN' - OCTAVE SOLOING

Octave soloing is associated with jazz more than rockabilly.  Django Reinhardt sometimes sprinkled his solos with octaves, and Wes Montgomery was famous for playing extended solos with octaves.  Cliff Gallup's climbing octaves at the end of the first solo in "Race with the Devil" is the exception that proves the rule.  Paul Burlison provided another exception in the "Train Kept A-Rollin'" when he played rarely-heard doubles octaves throughout the tune.  They were the same first-and sixth-string octaves Montgomery later popularized in his crossover hit, "Bumpin' on the Sunset."

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