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What great stories. My condolences to the Brumley family and all his friends and fans. When I was 15 and saw my first Desert Rose Band show, it was the first time I'd seen a live country music act after growing up and watching all the greats on television. My grandparents from Sicily loved Buck Owen...

Hi Dave. I'm in Palm Beach County. I'll remember you when I buy my first PSG (hopefully this year) and maybe we can do a whole afternoon lesson to get me started. I'm currently in a bluegrass band but we're not gigging yet. I'm ready on banjo and lead guitar, our fiddle player is ready, but the rhyt...

It's also an interesting reminder of how much Red Rhodes played on "Notorious Byrd Brothers" I'd recommend getting a clean copy of the original lp or a reissue from Sundazed Record and listening on a good record player. The cd just doesn't capture how beautiful that album is. Gary Usher t...

I suggest you go for a 12 Universal or extended E9. Look up the article in the forum archives by Maurice Andersen " Steel Guitar, Back to the Future" That's a great article and gives me a lot to think about. Thanks guys.. I'm glad I'm not totally off in thinking a double neck might be a w...

I'm going to look into getting my first PSG when the economy gets better. It will be my third instrument after six string guitar and banjo, and I know enough theory to play some jazz. I don't know know if I should learn E9 or C6 tuning first or both. I like both 60s country rock and 40s western swin...

Clarence piqued my interest in guitar after I found old Byrds albums, mainly Untitled. His whole career still fascinates me, but my interest in flatpicking has grown after studying his work in that realm. Some of my favorite shows that have survived on tape are the reformed Kentucky Colonels and Whi...

It was a thrill to meet Jay Dee and witness this reunion. He played his Emmons for both show. I'm going to put a full review up on the myspace page. I'll try to fix how dark this came out but here it is for now: http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c384/OutlawSteph/SanDiego057.jpg http://i31.photobucke...

As I understand the Buckaroos' history, Buck taught Don how to play lead guitar and handed those duties over to him when he got good enough. I think Don was just a fiddle player when they met. Buck was probably a very impressive picker in his early days but let those skills lapse somewhat. He's doin...

Classic! This is from one his solo albums on Capitol Records in the mid 60s. I wish they were reissued.

WOW! This was the 70's I think. How moronic? How feeble? How futile? How absurd? 1967. They never took Emery or his narrow mind seriously.. just an old character. It was either Roger McGuinn or Chris Hillman who was asked years later by Emory how Gram Parsons was and all they could say was "st...

Dang that's beautiful. It's one of my favorite songs and I usually don't care for covers, but I really loved it. Your tone is incredible.

....i heard jaydee quit the desert rose band cause hillman was a jerk with all the money and jaydee could barely afford to gig. Don't believe everything you read. Pre-Garth, you didn't have to sell a ton of records to get chart success. That's why the DRB put out such high quality albums and still ...

If any of you guys are around West Palm Beach/Treasure Coast area and want to play some country rock and progressive bluegrass with a mediocre Telecaster picker, flatpicker, and Scruggs/melodic style banjo player.. that would be me. Feel free to shoot me a message. I'm in an acoustic old-time band r...

:D Just got my tickets for the Coach House 8/28.:D Cool! If any of you guys see a skinny young woman with brown hair in a vintage style western shirt, that would be me. Say hello. I love meeting other country musicians. I'll be at the Belly Up and Coach House. Mr. Maness, it will be an honor to see...

He's on the right track for the Jimmy Bryant sound: clean tone, no string bending, all picked notes and some pull-offs. No gimmicks, just good picking. Great job kid! All he needs now is a Fender single coil PU guitar. ;-) Agreed. That was great! I'd love to see the younger musicians get into some ...

I was curious if anyone from this forum will be attending the Desert Rose Band shows in San Diego, San Juan Capistrano, Copper Mt. or San Fran.? See Chris Hillman's site for more info.: http://www.chrishillman.com/tour_dates.html Jay Dee Maness will be there! :D I saw the band with Tom Brumley in '9...

I've always liked Vern's music. First time I heard him was with his brother, the Gosdin Brothers, they did a song called Hangin On its still one of my favorites Good one Bill! This was recently reissued with a load of bonus tracks: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Y30109YSL._SL500_AA240_.jpg...

Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen have been making wondering records for decades and don't get a fraction of the buzz. Both were way ahead of Gram in country music as they played bluegrass in the early 60s, as did a lot of their peers in country rock. So I can understand how annoying all this "Gr...

Loved it! I've got to pick up the album. Jim Lauderdale has such an authentically country voice.. like the old days, and works with the best country musicians ever. IMHO

Also, the fourth FBB record with Al Perkins has been reissued by Sierra Records.

Thanks guys. I have many of the Buckaroos albums from the 60s but need to invest in some later ones as well.

It's too dark to see.. but dang I've listened to this 10 times in the past two days it's so beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANN3JyVA ... 08&index=5

I have on tape Charlie Louvin telling the story... it would have been in 1994 playing with the Osborne Brothers at a festival. Basically.. the Knoxville Girl wouldn't perform a sex act. Charlie said the girl said "you want me to do what to what?"

In fact, it was in Charlie Louvin's set lists this year. I really enjoyed it. Someone needs to reissue the albums he did with Capitol Records in the 60s.

Merry Christmas guys!

I'd say the only way you can write about it with authority it to listen first. If you can get one of these boxed set linked below, you'll hear examples of the earliest recorded country music starting in the mid 1920s and going through the early 50s. I found it pretty fascinating. It's easy to debate...

double post.