The Steel Guitar Forum

On the first recording (the best known one) of "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", Jerry Byrd, not Don Helms, is on steel. (Recorded at Herzog Studios, Cincinnati, 1949.)

Thank you, Larry!

-P.

I'm not talking about the the Bonnie Lou of B. L. & Buster, but about the one who recorded "Seven Lonely Days" (and also, by the way, "Just Out of Reach"...) for King in the '50s. I have a pretty good King discography, but there are no musicians listed for most of her recordi...

Bill Nevins wrote:I talked to his wife and she said he did play with Skeets but never on any of his recordings...

Hmmm....

-P.

Purely an opinion, but those long glisses on "Paper To Burn" sound very much like Jerry Byrd to me. "Hello Trouble" could well be Isaacs, largely because Isaacs at times reminds me of Noel Boggs and I can hear that Boggs thing on that song. It was recorded several years after &q...

Hey, thanks, Fred. One of my internet friends, James "Tim" Ausburn, also knew Skeets and said the same things about him that you did. Certainly that air of sincerity comes across in his voice. If I had had to venture a guess as to the steel player, I would in fact have guessed Bud Isaacs. ...

Skeets has been mentioned a number of times on the forum. When I was an undergrad in Carbondale, IL in the '60s I used to listen to his country show from St. Louis on KSTL, I think it was. Recently I saw that a few of his recordings are on U2be. They're on the MGM label from the early '50s. He's a g...

P.S. I said "Roy" but meant "Ron." Thanks again.

Roy,

Thanks very much. You are right. The photo I saw of Martin earlier didn't look like the player in the clip, but I looked at some more images and this one does for sure.

Much appreciated,
-P.

The steel solo starts at 1:30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3pM-NHd_3c

I don't think it's Doc Martin...

Thanks,
-P.

The steel player looks like Gene Jones. Is that possible?

Heh. And I thought SR meant Starday. But I guess the photo doesn't lie. ... Umm ... wait a second ... there's Photoshop, isn't there? .... No commas in Why Baby Why on the album cover, either. Thanks, -P. P.S. The trouble with opening your mouth in a new forum is that you might learn something....

Back to the original question. (I should know, since I asked it. ;-) ) I said that I couldn't find the non-original recording I had on PragueFrank's site. Someone else found it there. I missed it because I was searching for "WHY BABY WHY", and this particular cut is listed as "WHY, BA...

b0b wrote: That's obviously not the original recording, Peter. It's E9th pedal steel, and it's not Herb Remington Well, that suspicion is what caused me to ask in the first place. :-) To further belabor the point.... According to PragueFrank http://countrydiscoghraphy2.blogspot.cz/search/label/Jones...

Here it is: https://youtu.be/alxT2xDZX7Y Sounds like A6th non-pedal to me. Whoa. Non-pedal for sure. The version I have listed as the original 1955 recording is different. Listening around on youtube, it's this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lFT4E0NEps&list=PLUdmMccuxH2FkiVL5sF5cIRob...

This was recorded in '55, and to my ear, Herb Remington is using pedals on it -- especially toward the end of the song. But of course this would be unusual for him in that era. In fact, the steel playing has that very diatonic sound later associated with Nashville, which is also unusual for Herbie (...