The Steel Guitar Forum

I bought this guitar in 2016 with custom case and sent it to Beard guitars to have the doubleshot installed as well as an interior Mic. Condition is very good not scratchless. i used it for about a year in my house. Since i dont know what the interest is, I have not tken pics yet but can send if the...

In the same way Bill Keith and Bobby Thompson revolutionized banjo Jesse did the impossible act of picking between the double sets of mandolin strings and conjuring an eight note roll that did actually keep up with banjo tempos... what a freaking genius...

I had that cassette for awhile... it never really excited me although there was nothing wrong with the way he played it, maybe I got Huey creep on the brain.It was one of the woodshed Workshops...

John told me the story of his part on last Date, he said his vibrato was so strong they stopped the session to see if the tape was broken. What a vibrato

It was Bobby Thompson who played the 24 perfect banjo soloes Lloyd said HE had to do 24 passes to get his steelpart down at least thats what he told me

I sent Buddy a pair of cassettes yes cassettes with those two albums i remember emailing him about whether he liked them he said they are riding around in my Mercedes. Of note too is the slide playing that duels with Buddy on many of the tunes.I cannot remember the guys name(Mac Gayden maybe) but he...

Doc was the bridge between the limited acoustic lead breaks in the thirties and forties til his invention, for lack of a better term, "Watson" picking. Ralph Rinzler in 1961 was goin south to record Clarence Ashley who mentioned his neighbor Doc as a excellent guitar player. Ralphs face mu...

I just cannot wrap my head around this, i thought he would live forever like a steel guitar icon banshee intellectual you name it.So now you are gone and my heart hurts and i wish i had known you better Peter.

There is a repeated uptempo lick on this song and it was driving me crazy.It was obviously Emmons but how how was he doin it. So in 1997 at the St Louis convention at eight in the morning I heard this fiery guitar practicing in one of the rooms. So I asked Buddy how he played it and the answer was s...

There is a repeated uptempo lick on this song and it was driving me crazy.It was obviously Emmons but how how was he doin it. So in 1997 at the St Louis convention at eight in the morning I heard this fiery guitar practicing in one of the rooms. So I asked Buddy how he played it and the answer was s...

Every time I hear him he reminds me of how awfully inadequate most steelers are.I mean no insult but he was far ahead in all ways...

First off I loved the book you took the most prominent recording sessions like Someday Soon and did the appropriate interviews. My take on the book was that he really gave up any semblance of a normal steel life by being driven by an incredible work ethic There were no resting laurels with Buddy. I ...

I always looked at Alabama as a country music version of the Kingston Trio. With THIRTY number ones they had the pulse of commercial success. When the Kingston Trio hit with Tom Dooley there were people who thought they had citified or commercialized real folk music. Similar resentment seemed to fol...

In Hillmans bio he states that JD played overdubs on Biding My Time the album. And on many of the songs you can hear it on the great bells of rhymney there is a tiny section at the beginning instrumental with harmonics my question was is that JD or is it not a steel guitar at all...

that was the title of the ALBUM not the specific song

I interviewed Brumley in 1996 on tape and he just said he was nervous and "somehow it came off"... He would have,, pardon the expression, rolled over in his grave with all this excessive Thomas Wolfe never ending analysis. Way too much

There is a cut on this album The Great Bells of Rhymney, there is a short instrumental section with some really lovely steel guitar harmonics at the beginning of the break. I just finished Hillmans bio and he said JD did some overdubs. Any opinions appretiated

Search box in Utube look for steel guitar performances. Ok it is one guy posting but no one is suing him. If the party has passed away are his relatives goin to go after the person who posted them... they should be happy his or her performance can still be viewed.

I remember like 15 years ago and asking if they would ever release any of the performances at the ISGC. I was told they could never get clearances from each performer. My question is did it just happen by itself? or are people feeling more generous about releasing their perfomances.... I love it but...

To me it shows the value of a great "sideman"!!!

I heard a version of Rose Colored Glasses sung by Stony on utube does anyone know who played on it? As far as I know it was done at a home recording studio... in 1982....

Many years ago I made a query about who played steel on the Stony Edwards song "Cute Little Waitress". As I recall I never got a final answer some thought it was JD Maness but I never got the answer i hoped for. Can anyone help?

I happened to check your I cant Help it instrumental, please dont ever quit really gorgeous tone...

listen to Bryan Sutton he seems to have expanded the bluegrass templet. Seems like you have conquered all the rest...

In 1965 Mardi Gras i played in a New Orleans street jug band in Jackson Square... I was playing banjo but there was a lot of flak from the police who saw no value in a faux Kweskin Jug Band. We hired some very attractive hat passing groupies who for some reason liked us. On the final tuesday we got ...