# Happy Home guitar solo > The guitar solo on Happy Home by Elmore James (1955) starts at about 1:20. From the album Single. Watch from the solo, plus the story and gear. Canonical URL: Elmore James, 1955, from *Single*. Solo by *Elmore James*. A mid-tempo number with crying slide answers that highlight his command of vibrato on the bottleneck. Happy Home by Elmore James is #13 in our ranking of the best Elmore James guitar solos. The solo is played by Elmore James and the song was released in 1955. ## In our lists - [The Best Elmore James Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/elmore-james-guitar-solos/) — #13 - [The Best Guitar Solos of 1955](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1955/) — #11 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Happy Home? Elmore James played the solo on Elmore James's Happy Home (1955). --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)