The Steel Guitar Forum

Having wound up with a paper copy of this New York Times piece, it seemed really interesting both photos feature steel players. Can we name them?

Dave:

Thanks for the great thread.

Buddy's playing sounds a bit like what he did on Darrel McCall circa 1975.

Note the phase shifter on some cuts. You might be hearing a push-pull through a Peavey Session 500.

Get you some.

I Can't Convince My Heart
Heart of Glass
These Lonely Hands of Mine

This might be the whole record; I cued it up to a walking waltz with a sticky-bass feel I like a good deal. This may also feature Dicky the singer and songwriter: https://youtu.be/c8AH6jAOUek?list=PLwrT ... 5CcR&t=645.

Beeswax and/or pine rosin/tar might appeal more than saliva. Thinking along the lines of a bowstring (archery) or fly-tying wax.

Thanks for that link, Jim Park.

(Man, I didn't even recognize Redd.)

Pure Love - Milsap - Dolly Parton Intro

Pure Love - Milsap - Fretboard Cam on Ride

a whiney sound

That's the sound I'm looking for!

That's a hot ride, alright, and Lloyd might've been my guess, too. Prague Frank has it down as Weldon Myrick . On There's Something Lonely in this House —one of the other two songs cut on the same session with Louisiana Man—the first fill after the vocals start is a distinctive Weldon phrasing. Howe...

I heard Jimmy Dickens say that he recorded Farewell Party first and Emmons played on it. He did it slow shuffle beat..... like he's so good at doing.:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1TqQ9piLus Doesn't feel slow versus the Bush and Watson cuts. Interesting, though, and it, of course, predates tho...

Interesting stuff. Thanks for bringing that back to our attention, Bas.

Nice, robust tone. What make was he playing?

Beauty. Where are you going to find another pedal steel that matches the cat?

It was way more fun when we called it "The Franklin Drop". Tommy White seems to get a lot of mileage out of his implementation (The White Wash?) of these changes. Both players get some compelling sounds. I'd like to have these moves, but I imagine putting them on a push-pull would yield pe...

Has some good stuff, doesn't he.

And Bourque Chop on bass.

steel had "this thing" that no other steel he's ever played had

It does seem to have this thing . . . or these things . . . nice things. (I'm afraid if I sat down to it, those things might go away . . . or at least be less apparent.)


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It's all in the glands.

Such a nice cut with a sound feel. (For a while, I was looking around for the doghouse bass!)

That looks mighty invitin'.

Did he ever go by "Regular-Sized Jim Webb" to distinguish himself from the "Big" one?

Really solid playing. Thanks for sharing.

Steel players certainly glommed onto Sweet Memories. Part of our beautiful, morose, funereal repertoire, one reckons.

. . . with all the funeral music that's played on steel today.

"Play us somethin' we can die to!" roared the crowd.

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That's a skip-to-the-ride recording for me. The steel playing clean and hot, though, and noticeable, as you observed.

That guy looks like he might be a competent armpit lap slide player, but I read it's pretty easy because all you have to do is kindly slide and waller around a bit.