“Blue Bayou” July 27, 2007

“Blue Bayou” by Roy Orbison and Joe Melton, performed by Orbison.

From the 1988 HBO special Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night. Put together by musical director T-Bone Burnett, backed by the TCB Band, which accompanied Elvis Presley from 1969 until his death in 1977: Glen D. Hardin, who had played for The Crickets, on piano; James Burton on lead guitar; Jerry Scheff on bass and Ron Tutt on drums.

Other accompanists included Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Steven Soles and Timothy B. Schmit, k.d. lang, Jennifer Warnes, and Bonnie Raitt.

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