Eighty Years Young
Redding at friend Chris Gantry’s birthday party, celebrating 80 years young. The guitar James is playing here was custom made for Gantry by Washington state luthier Brent McElroy, plays like butter, and sounds like a dream. If memory serves, this was smack dab in the middle of a sing-along, make-up-your-own-verses version of Leavin’ (written by James with Jeffrey Joslin).