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Bucky Pizzarelli – “Sweet Sue” (Solo)

After knocking “Darn That Dream” out of the park, we asked Bucky Pizzarelli for another one. As he strummed a few chords, casting about for inspiration, I recalled that he’d been playing a lovely version of “Sweet Sue” in his sets with Pearl Django, introducing it as the first song he’d ever learned on the guitar. It seemed so obvious, I made the suggestion, and he killed it, but I should’ve said “Stardust”…