The Steel Guitar Forum

One of the great heros of WW1 was Sargent Alvin C. York. You may have seen the movie about his heroics. He was played by Gary Cooper. York's statue can be seen on the State of Tennessee Capitol lawn. The southeast corner. One of the great heroes of WW2 was Audie Murphy. Audie was from Texas and made...

The only time I've had the pleasure of hearing Django was when I was stationed in Germany. He was often heard on AFN, the Armed Forces Network.

Charlie has ten children. I attended a double wedding when two of his daughters were married at the same service. He is very involved in the Masons.
Has a high ranking position in that organization. Lives here in Hendersonville, Tn.

Garth tried to have his home in Goodlettsville declared a sort of Grace Land. The neighbors gave him his privacy while he lived there and are up in arms with his desire to now make his Goodlettsville home some sort of tourist attraction. What an ego. He is entertaining but sing...nah. I've heard Elv...

Will be in Ft. Lauderdale and Pompano Beach, Florida the week of October 28 thru November the fourth. If anyone knows of a good country music spot in that area let me know.
(Gary Harris) annharris612@integrity.com

I think it is a foregone conclusion that Jerry is not coming to the ZI. At his age we shouldn't want him to risk taking this long journey. Last year I flew in to Nashville from south Florida. The Nashville airport was socked in because of fogg. We went in to a holding pattern south of Nashville for ...

Are you old enough to remember the Jimmy Dean show on TV. Each night they would feature an uptown version of square dancers and I fell in love with the cute brunette on the end. (female of course)

Several years ago a friend of mine who was a record producer at the time approached Hank Thompson about doing an album and Hank declared that he was indeed western swing. My fried said he was astounded that Hank would consider himself as being in that category but apparantly others agree with Hank. ...

Spade Cooley came to Nashville with his band and booked the War Memorial Building. It was said that there were more band members than audience members. As told to me by Billy Robinson this week at the NTSGA shindig.

The late Justin Tubb wrote and recorded a song that said about the same thing several years ago. I've forgotten the title.

I also bought the tape and was not disapointed. I feel that I got my money's worth although I would prefer a CD.

Several years ago I attended a recording session as a guest of a friend of mine. The artist recording was Mr. G. Jones along with Melba Montgomery. During one of the breaks I was commenting on the beautiful sound of an experimental steel that was featured on the Opry a few days prior to this. This g...

Who (or is it whom) ever did the steel work on the Spade Coolie version is the best. Bob Wiils version is right next to it. Jerry Byrd's version is still in a class by it's self.

The Opry used to consist of farmers, mechanics and other trades people. The Opry wasn't commercial in that sense. When some of the members became somewhat famous the National Life and Accident Insurance company which owned the Opry began to print brochures or tracts with the picture of some of these...

Love trucking songs. "Coming out of Detroit" or was it Pitsburgh. Loved Dave Dudley singing about "soot as black as coal"
No steel guitars but wonderful guitar work.

Mr. Gaylord is not getting any younger. What's going to happen when he goes to that big Opry in the sky? What is going to happen if this Opry Mills thing proves to be a bust? At some point there may be a need to satisfy heirs or lein holders. It may be necessary to sell all of Gaylord's assets for w...

"V" grooves, you must be joking. It seems to me that only when you pick with open strings that this would possibly make a difference. When the steel bar is placed on the string wouldn't that erase any benefits from a perfect fit in the "V" groves? What about the little "U&qu...

If Jerry Byrd didn't play on "Whistle My Love" sung by George Morgan then I was badly fooled. This was about 1952. I read a letter by Buddy Killen written to Kelso Herston stating that he was as happy as he had ever been. He was playing bass for George Morgan and Jerry Byrd was playing ste...

I was the "stage" guest of Buddy Harmond a few months prior to his being let go. It was worth the effort but seeing the back of performers heads while they perform is not the same as being in the audience. My dad told me years ago that the Delmore Brothers were asked to sing more to the Op...

Saw Ray Benson on the Imus show this morning. That guy is constantly beating the bushes. Says his next album will not be a "Wills" thing. He admitted that many had contacted him and reminded him of the many Wills songs that needed to be recorded by his group. I love those "A Sleep At ...

I saw Wesley Rose in our local Kroger store a few years before his death. I told him that I was the one who sold him a new "1958" Ford for his daughter. He remembered the sale and repied, "And she didn't take care of it." I delivered the car to his home and he, his brother and on...

Several years a go when I owned a ZB, the Rickenbacker was stored in a shed on the back of my property. I didn't go out there for months at a time. One day I went out there and to my horror I discovered that my roof was leaking and water had leaked on my guitar case and ruined it. Had the guitar bee...

Checked my E mail today and found that I had a reply from the Hank Garland family. It came From jazbilly@bellsouth.net. They live in Orange Park, FL.

Shirley Temple had the same problem. Her father and uncle "invested" her earnings. When she became an adult and demanded her money they broke the news that she was broke.
She said that she would have made the movies even had she known that she would never profit from them.

A music store owner told me this story. It seems that a friend of his, a steel player had always wanted to play for Ray Price and finally his dream came true. He arrived for a practice session early and eagerly awaited the arrival of "Mr. Big". Ray came in and didn't even bother to speak t...