Wings held sessions in Nashville, Tennessee from early June into July 1974 at a time ...Joining Paul, Linda and Denny Laine, were guitarist Jimmy McCulloch and drummer Geoff Britton, who had just signed up with Wings on May 16th. The main idea for going to Nashville was just a different place to rehearse. After all, it was known as the center of the music industry and was even nicknamed “Music City.” Things went well and by July they ended up doing some recording there at Soundshop Recording Studios. The most well-known recording from these sessions is the Wings single “Junior’s Farm” which Paul had written after being inspired by Bob Dylan’s “Maggie’s Farm” written some years earlier as a track for his Bringing It All Back Home album (1965). While “Junior’s Farm” was undoubtedly a great rocker, the song that ended up on the b-side of the single had more of the Nashville influence. In fact “Sally G” was actually written while they were there. According to Skull Schullman, owner of the Printer’s Alley Club (mentioned in the song), Paul wrote the song in his bar. It was originally to be “Diane G” after country singer Diane Gaffney but Paul changed the name after learning that Diane had once sued a newspaper. Paul invited Nashville musicians Lloyd Green (pedal steel guitar) and Johnny Gimble (fiddle) to join in with Wings on the recording, which took place on July 9th. During the July sessions, Wings were also joined by music legends Floyd Cramer and Chet Atkins. Together they recorded an instrumental track written by Paul’s father, James, many years earlier. The song, “Walking In The Park With Eloise,” was also released on a single the following December with the artist billing credited to The Country Hams. The same Country Hams line up had just recorded a second McCartney-composed instrumental titled “Bridge On The River Suite” which served as the b-side to the single.
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