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OK, here are the facts concerning "Talkin' To The Wall". First, I didn't play on "All Nite Cafe". That's Pete Drake.
The very next record of Warner Mack's was the record that launched my career and style, "The Bridge Washed Out", Warner's first and only #1 record. The following record was "Sittin' On a Rock", followed by "Talkin' To The Wall" , all of which I'm on. By then, everyone was using my style and Warner called one day wanting to know why I was using it with many other singers and wearing it out. When I asked him for record and artists names I had to tell him...that one is Weldon....that one is Hal, etc. I was trying to find other ways of playing so I didn't sound the same on everybody's songs although I did experiment more with this style on early Johnny Paycheck recordings such as, "The Lovin' Machine".
After about a year or two, among the three of us, the style was certainly dead! Of course Weldon and Hal had bigger fish to fry anyhow, with Connie Smith and Loretta Lynn, each with his own fingerprint.
My steel at the time was, on all records between 1965 &1967, Sho-Bud double neck with a pearl inlay heart in the center and a 1965 Fender black-face Deluxe, with one D-120F JBL speaker.

Lloyd Green

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Ricky,
I forgot one thing. There is a counterfeit version of "Talkin' To The Wall". A few years ago Warner Mack went in the studio and cut a "Greatest Hits" cd to sell on the road. Whoever the players were they were unable to duplicate our Decca recordings. It's pretty bad, And they were trying to replicate all those hits, including "The Bridge Washed Out".

Lloyd G.

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