The Steel Guitar Forum

Hi Alexander,

Thanks for all your work concerning us steel pickers.

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Janne Lindgren

Hi friends,

Please feel free to use all pictures of me as much as you want. Anders is a great photographer and has taken many pictures of me and other steel pickers. Of course I will send you some of my own if you like!

Thanks,

Janne Lindgren steelguitar@swipnet.se

Hi guys, I have been playing sessions and gigs since the 60´s, recording about 5.000 titles through the years with different kinds of artists . I was playing for my living all that time. Today I do one, sometimes two sessions a month and maybe one gig a week. That is how it is in Sweden today and I ...

Hi, some friends of mine from Sweden are going to LA from March 30 - April 6. Can you help me with the name of clubs which has live country music! Thanks guys!

Hi guys, just want to say that my Derby D-10 is the greatest steel I´ve ever played!

Hi guys and thanks a lot for the answers! Especially to Steinar for the long story about my work for steel guitar! But I am sure everybody understood that I was joking when saying that I have to take my steel with me when having a vacation. Nobody will carry about 35 Kg if it is not necessary, no ma...

I just came home from Paris, France after a vacation week of eating fantastic foods, seeing the Eiffel Tower and a lot more. Great town but no country music. Tried the Pariscope! No luck! Thanks to Anders Brundell, Crowbear, Nick Allen and Henry for all the help. Yes, I know Jean Yves Lozach since w...

Hi Larry, I suggest that you are looking at www.bear-family.de which has the best box of Ray Price records you can ever get. Their box is a 10 CD´s (25 to 28 songs on each) one big book with information like studio, time, musicians and more. All songs are from Ray´s best time (if you like real count...

Hi Anders and Crowbear, thanks for this! I am the one going to Paris on Wednesday and I´ll be there 5 days. Billy Bob´s in Euro Disney ain´t Fort Worth, but it is worth to check it out. I´ll check the "Pariscope" too! I´ll not find my way up in the Eiffel Tower since I have been there seve...

Hi Rick, I have already bought the plane ticket and planned to be there after a short roundtrip in Texas. We are about 5 persons coming. OK?

You are all right, Mike is a GREAT steel picker!
Janne Lindgren

Hi Bobbe, thanks for your way of putting words to the problem we have as dealers. I agree with you on all points! When I started my company Steel Guitar Music here in Stockholm about 25 years ago, I got a nice deal with Dekley. A great steel with a budget price and I sold a bunch of guitars. I also ...

Hi guys, I am looking at my Tony Booth records right know. Here are the titles and the numbers: The Key´s In The Mailbox ST-11076, Lonesome7-7203 ST-11126, When A Man Loves A Woman ST-11160, This is ST-11210 and Happy Hour ST-11270. All on the Capitol label! Jerry, do you remember any of the other m...

Hi Bobbe, I met Gene for the first time in 1966 when he made a tour with Judy Lynn here in Sweden. They where the head act at Gröna Lund (an outdoor stage) in Stocholm for about 2 days. A fantastic show for us few country music fans there was at that time in our country. After the show I was talking...

Hi Fernando, pedal steel guitars in Spain, that sounds fantastic to me. Great! We need more pickers in Europe!
Janne Lindgren

Hi Ken, nice to hear that your grandparents were from Sweden. Which part of Sweden? Maybe their new name was Lång, because that means tall. (A with a circle). Some soldiers had to change their name at that time in Sweden. That was because many young men had the same name and came from the same villa...

Just a short note to tell you about a great festival in Sweden. It is called Furuvik Scandinavian Country Music Festival and will be held August 3 - 5. Russ Hicks are doing a 3 hours seminar and he will also enter the big stage together with his wife Laney. Charlie McCoy, Moe Bandy and Danni Leigh w...

Hi Mick, yes you can buy Let´s Take A Ride With Bob & Tommy Vol #2&3 of How The West Was Swung. WR 002 & 003. A double CD which you can order from Scotty´s. Great music!
Janne Lindgren

Hi, I am just looking in the book that follow the CD Box from Bear Family. Following steel pickers played on the early records with Pee Wee King: Don Davis 1946, Roy Jewell Ayres 1947-50, Doug Oldham 1951, Chuck Wiggins 1951, Bob Koefer 1952-55, Jack Bengle 1955 and Charles Adams 1956. It is a great...

Hi Neal, As a Swede I know everything about Norway!!! At least I have been touring many times in that country and I have a lot of very good friends there too! As an answer on your question I just say, bring your own beer from the taxfree shop. The beer in Norway is very expensive (even if you buy it...

Hi Jody, I am just listening to Chet Atkins when he sings "Ain´tcha Tired Of Makin´ Me Blue, recorded in 1946 in Nashville. But he did a song earlier in 1940 with the title "Why Don´t You Leave Me Alone" recorded in Knoxville. This is probably his first vocal song he recorded. You´re ...

Hi Johnny,

I saw the band a Monday evening at Station Inn in Nashville almost a year ago. That was the highlight of my 14 days trip to Texas and Tennessee. Thanks!
Janne Lindgren, Stockholm,Sweden

Hi Brad, I visited London a couple of weeks ago and just want you to know. It is hard to find any kind of country music club there, or some place where you can listen to steel pickers. The Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace and the Tower are of course places you should visit. My favorit thing to eat is...

Steel picker Gerry Hogan, Albert Lee and Hogan Heroes visited Stockholm yesterday, Sunday evening. They did a GREAT show for a full house at restaurant Akkurat. Some of my friends saw the show and where impressed. I should have been there of course, but got ill earlier in the evening. I guess I miss...