The Steel Guitar Forum

Chuck "Mr. Blue" Lettes once again knocks a Santana Tune outta the park with "Europa"!!! I honestly don't know which Santana Tune of his I like better, "Samba Pa Ti" on his Vibrato Label CD or this newest smashinf effort "Europa"...Carlos would love these 2 in...

I am the fortunate fool!!
BTW....Sunday June 14 is the Colorado Steel Guitar Fest in Denver at Lannie Garrett's Cabaret downtown!!!
Scotty & Mary will be there!!!
Chuck Lettes & Bob Case are doing a bang-up job with the PROGRAM OF PLAYERS!!!

BE THERE!!!

Thank you one and all! Al Talley, President of the Texas Steel Guitar Association, was so kind in allowing this award at his magnificent 25th Anniversary Texas Steel Guitar Convention. Al also did a beautiful job of honoring so deservedly Mr & Mrs Charlie Norris for their great contribution inti...

Everything is great! See you in Dallas with Emmons and Bush!!

Joe Goldmark is the real deal, a totally one-of-a-kind item. NOBODY sounds like Joe, his tone, sound, and approach to steel are SOOOO refreshing. He created himself in his own image and likeness, and boy do I like it!! Scotty is such a genius for getting the best of the best to play St. Louis and I ...

You may want to check out Neil Flanz's recording circa 1961 of "Danny Boy" from his instrumental album(he has 2 GREAT steel albums). Neil told me he took it right out of the Jimmy Day-Buddy Emmons song book!! For C6th fans, the GREATEST version ever done was by Curly Chalker on Charlie McC...

Buddy IS sporting his Bigsby. The steel's legs were too short so Buddy had to accomodatte his long legs by placing the volume pedal to the right of the Bigsby's legs, not underneath the steel!!

Buddy Emmons recorded it on E9th!! He just makes it sound like C6th!! Just like when Buddy Emmons cut for the Gatlin Bros band "Houston" and "The Girl Goes For the Bartender", he did those "C6th sounding licks" on E9th. It was Buddy Charleton that told me Emmons did it ...

Buddy has had so many GIANT intros, turnarounds, and solos that it is truly difficult to determine his "BEST". EVERYTHING he touches is gifted to my ear. When he cut "Half a Mind" with ET (by a neophyte unknown writer Roger Miller in 1957), Neil Flanz mused,"Jerry Byrd is no...

Bobby Garrett is known as the "King of the Thumb Style" on his HOF plaque. When I told Buddy Charleton Bobby was going into the Hall of Fame, he said,"I thought he already was!" Charleton said to me, and Garrett confirmed, that when Bobby was on steel for ET, Emmons on guitar, he...

Mike is a distinguiished colleague in the realm of steel guitar innovators. There is no one that sounds like him, and he like no one else. I have adored everything he has ever recorded. He has just sent to me his new project on guitars, not steel, again embraced by his inimitable touch and unique ap...

Mike is a distinguiished colleague in the realm of steel guitar innovators. There is no one that sounds like him, and he like no one else. I have adored everything he has ever recorded. He has just sent to me his new project on guitars, not steel, again embraced by his inimitable touch and unique ap...

I definitely have to echo JB's comment. Chuck does a "masterful" job on Clapton's "Tears From Heaven" on E9th. I LOVE it everytime I hear it!! Chuck really makes his Mullen "sing"!!

Johnny Bush called me at home last night, after he had called Herb Steiner first of course (does the Buck Owen's song "Second Fiddle" come to mind?), and told me that 3 hours earlier he had talked to the "BIG E" and said to him "Well Bud, I'm going to sing in St. Louis this ...

Muttonhead knocked me out for years hearing him in Denver with "Timothy P"!!!!! He is such a good guitar player that I don't know what he does better!! Wish you the best Jerry!!!!! We miss you in Denver!!!!!! With steelers like Jerry, Ronnie Miller, Chuck Lettes, John Macy, Buzz Evans, Bri...

Rick Price was dynamite with Johnny Bush as well!!!!!

MEGADITTOS ERNIE!!!!!§§§§§µµµµ££££€€€€€¤¤¤¤¤

Wish on...............

Tommy and Dumplin' are 2 of my current favorites and you cannot meet greater human beings as well!! Whatta show!!!

Loud and clear Paul!!

Buddy Emmons guitar playing is great. He played his unique way, taking another level from Billy Byrd. You must remember that Buddy, Garrett, and Day were in their late teens and early twentys when they did these GIANT accomplishments that electrified the steel guitar and music world in general. Who ...

With Emmons committed to playing, the question is not who will bw there, but will not be there!!!
The fools!

Bobby Garrett was and is one of the GREATEST E9th and C6th steel guitar players of all time. Most are defined by a single neck and Bobby like few others have defined themselves by both necks. I once asked Bobby if he ever played E9th for Hank Thompson on any of the 95 sides he recorded in Hollywood ...

Anyone can contact me as well with Vibrato Records, the finest label for steel guitar music (Chuck Lettes, Buzz Evans, Mike Smith, Buddy Emmons). wayne.yakes@riaco.com 303 788 4280
YOU CALL, WE HAUL!!

I remember when Johnny Johnson and other ET musicians rushed to Bobby Garrett (who was playing in George Jones first band!!) after Buddy Emmons left ET and went with Gordon Terry (FIDDLER) to California to find their fortunes. All thought that ET would hire Pete Drake because Jack Drake(his brother)...