Jarosław Śmietana: Talking Guitar (1984) & From One to Four (1986)

Following up with the Extra Ball material with these 'solo' albums by their leader and guitarist Smietana.  We have the smoother fusion always led by electric guitar instrumental vocalizing, recalling for example the later albums of Karl Ratzer here, sometimes so smooth it's almost featureless.  And a bunch of jazz standard renditions to contend with as well.

From the first album, Cased up Cars:





Note the 'double-guitar' melody (separated by an octave) which I thought was patented and owned solely by George Benson.  The clean sound of the amp/guitar makes me yearn for more distortion, electricity, gain and fuzz-- but of course, we are now in the middle of the eighties, when such actions were strictly forbidden.

From the 2nd, note the clever play on the folk song called Scandinavian Song:





Completely unexpectedly, the second album here proved better than the first.  I'll throw in the one from 1987 too.