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Tommy Allison

 

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Post  Posted 23 May 2006 4:27 am    
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There are just too many for me to pick just one but, John Hughey's solo in Lost In the Feeling would be real high on my list.
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Howard Tate


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Post  Posted 23 May 2006 8:28 am    
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As for solos and not instrumentals, everything I've ever heard by John Hughey, Mooney, Emmons, all the great things by PeeWee Whitewing with Hank Thompson's band, I got to stop, this is too hard, my opinion changes after almost every song I hear.

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Jim Cohen


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Philadelphia, PA
Post  Posted 23 May 2006 8:31 am    
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Howard, you'd better quit while you're ahead...

(Thanks, man)
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Larry Bartram


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New Jersey, USA
Post  Posted 3 Sep 2007 5:57 pm    
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Jerry Garcia, Dire Wolf on Workingman's Dead; Rusty Young, El Tonto de Nadie, Regresa on Poco (second album); Bud Isaacs, Beautiful Mahana on Bud's Bounce.
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Mike Shefrin

 

Post  Posted 3 Sep 2007 6:25 pm    
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Every note Lloyd Green played on "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" from the Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo album.
This was the first steel playing I ever heard back when I was 16, and I still love it. I cannot imagine hearing anything other than what he played on that tune.


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Mat Rhodes

 

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Lexington, KY, USA
Post  Posted 3 Sep 2007 7:34 pm    
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Herbie Wallace's solo on "My Window Faces The South".
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Ray Leroux


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Vulcan Alberta CANADA/Thousand Palms CA.
Post  Posted 3 Sep 2007 7:50 pm    
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Any of a dozen or more Lucky Oceans solos with Asleep At The Wheel, for now
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Luke Morell

 

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Ramsey Illinois, USA Hometown of Tex Williams
Post  Posted 3 Sep 2007 7:55 pm    
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Paul Franklins solo on Dire Straits Walk of Life, and George Strait's That's Where My Baby Feels At Home.
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L. A. Wunder

 

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Lombard, Illinois, USA
Post  Posted 3 Sep 2007 7:58 pm    
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Bob Hempker - "Pickn' Shovel" ("On the road with Loretta and the Coal Miners" album) and "For A Minute There" (same album)

Lloyd Green - "Husband Hunting" (and anything else he played with Lynn Anderson)

Stu Basore - "Tapedeck In His Tractor" ("NASHVILLE" soundtrack)

Jerry Byrd - "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" and "Hilo March"

There are many others of course, but these are the ones that immedately come to my mind.
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Jamie Lennon


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Nashville, TN
Post  Posted 4 Sep 2007 1:06 am    
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Paul Franklins on Dire Straits "The Walk Of Life"
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Barry Gaskell

 

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Post  Posted 4 Sep 2007 1:16 am    
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Don't start me !!!!!!!!!1
Just a few,
Who's gonna love me now, LLoyd with Charlie Louvin,
Jay Macdonald as a Buckaroo on Pierce's 'Touch me' from the 'On the bandstand' album which I've got !!!!
Lloyd on Paychecks 'Or is it love'.
The Big E on L.J.Dickens 'We could'
Curly Chalker on 'A thing called sadness' and 'Mansion on a hill'.
Jimmy Day on Willie Nelsons' 'Waltz acorss Texas'.
Tom Brumley on Arrowhead and on the Ricky Nelson albums, as has been mentioned, where he carries you off on a dream ride, and on almost ANYTHING.
Feel, feel, feel, everytime, against fireworks.
Most opinions mentioned here are all emotional comments.
Usually it's not the wizardry or even the solo but that certain something in the playing that sends shivers down your back, when you can feel the player in the music.
I must dig my albums out again, it's got me going.
Barry
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Josh Jones

 

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Wichita, Kansas, USA
Post  Posted 4 Sep 2007 8:40 am    
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There are so may great steel songs by so many different steel players I love, but for an entire album I would have to go with Tom Brumley on the Buck Owens live at Carnegie Hall Concert album or Lloyd Green on Charlie Pride's Live at Panther Hall album.
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John McGlothlin

 

Post  Posted 4 Sep 2007 10:01 am    
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Off the LP by Doug Jernigan called Up Town To Country...the song is Orange Blossom Special and its the second part of the song when Doug performs majic with those chromatics. I have heard a lot of players do that song but in my opinion none have done as great a job as Doug Jernigan.

Doc Hall

 

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Galveston, Tx
Post  Posted 4 Sep 2007 1:23 pm    
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Lloyd Maines break on West Texas Waltz...Joe Ely.
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robert kramer

 

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Nashville TN
Post  Posted 4 Sep 2007 1:52 pm    
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"Night Life"
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Al Vesel

 

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Chisholm, Minnesota, USA
Post  Posted 5 Sep 2007 7:30 pm     Best Steel Solo
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I guess I also am with Rusty Young of POCO with "BAD WEATHER". But tied for that would be Lloyd Green's version of "FAREWELL PARTY" on YouTube and here's web page: Don't get much better than this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbjViunwfvQ

Although now that I think about it check this out with the Late Great Jeff Newman from the ISGC 1993. Song is SOMEONE TO GIVE MY LOVE TO from YouTube. Check out how he bends the strings at the keyhead in the song.

Here's that web page:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1s054PrC-o

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Justin Griffith


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Taylor, Texas, USA
Post  Posted 5 Sep 2007 7:54 pm    
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1. Curly Chalker- Shadow Of Your Smile.
2. Buddy Emmons- Night Life
3. Jimmy Day- Farewell Party (Johnny Bush cut)
4. Randy Reinhardt- When Your House Is Not A Home (Bobby Flores)
5. Dicky Overby- I'll Be There (Johnny Bush)
6. Lloyd Green- Remember When

If it just HAD to be 1 it would be "Shadow"
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Andy Jones


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Mississippi
Post  Posted 6 Sep 2007 5:38 am    
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Buddy Charlton on ET's "Waltz Across Texas"
John Hughey on Conway's "Last Date"
Weldon Myrick on Skeeter Davis'"I'm A Lover,Not A Fighter"

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Henry Matthews


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Texarkana, Ark USA
Post  Posted 6 Sep 2007 8:31 am    
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Buddy Emmons---Ray Price's "I'll Sail This Ship Alone"

Weldon Myrick--Connie Smith, "I'll Come Running"

Hal Rugg ------Loretta Lynn's "Til a Tingle Becomes a Chill."

John Hughey---Look At Us
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Danny Kuykendall

 

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Fullerton, CA, USA
Post  Posted 6 Sep 2007 9:16 am    
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"Top of the World" by Buddy and Red Rhodes (the Carpenter's version.) "Someday Soon" by Buddy E. and I still get goosebumps (maybe I'm a fool or an idiot) when I hear Jerry Garcia's "Teach Your Children" over the juke box in my pool room.
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Al Marcus


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Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
Post  Posted 6 Sep 2007 9:17 am     Re: Favorite all-time steelsolos
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Meine Bruinsma wrote:
My favorite all-time steelsolo comes from the album "Nashville Skyline" by Bob Dylan, called nashville skyline rag. Great solo on that track, played by Pete Drake. I'm curious what's yours.

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Meine-I don't have an "alltime favorite Steel Solo".

There have been too many great ones over the years
to ever pick one out......al.SmileSmile
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Michael Johnstone


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Sylmar,Ca. USA
Post  Posted 6 Sep 2007 10:15 am    
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Here's some good ones:
Sneaky's solo on "Diggy Liggy Lo" off of the Burritos' CD "The Red Album" from around 1976. Pure 100 proof Sneaky Pete. Listen to it here:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-42,GGLJ:en&q=Burrito+Bros+The+Red+Album

Then there's Mooney's bluesy intro,fills and solo from Wynn Stewart's tune "Slightly Used".

I don't know it it was ever formally recorded but I have a tape of Jeff Newman doing an instrumental version of the Roy Orbison tune "Crying" on his Kline 12 string at Scottys in 1984 that still moves me.
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Aled Rhys Jones


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Berkeley, CA
Post  Posted 6 Sep 2007 11:22 am    
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Dave Easley on Brian Blade Fellowship 'Evinrude-Fifty'
Greg Leisz on Bill Frisell 'Pioneers'
Al Perkins on Manassas 'Jesus Gave Love Away for Free'
Lloyd Green on the Byrds 'One Hundred Years from Now'
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Olaf van Roggen


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The Netherlands
Post  Posted 6 Sep 2007 11:41 am    
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Neil Flanz:"The New Soft Shoe" with Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels,live 1973.

When I heard the steel playing on this album,I knew I had to contact Neil to tell him how great his playing is...
I was 14 years old then,now 25 years later Neil Flanz is still one of my best friends.
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Alan Miller

 

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, England, UK.
Post  Posted 6 Sep 2007 12:01 pm    
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Buddy Emmons "Getting over you again". Intro / turnaround, just stunning.
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