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John Carpenter
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can anyone tell me some of the records ben played on when he was doing session work in nashville? i know of patsy cline, ringo, and obviously neil...what else has he done?

saw him play dobro with neil a few weeks ago at farm aid. it was really something
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I know he played dobro on "Mother Earth Presents: Tracy Nelson Country" from around 1969, produced by Pete Drake and Scotty Moore (Pete plays steel of course). I think he also played on a few songs on the Mother Earth album that came out before that ("Make a Joyful Noise"). All those songs are (were?) available on one CD but at the moment I can't remember what the CD is called...

The Tracy Nelson album is one of my all time favorites...
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He does some of his signature-style backup work on the self-titled Pegi Young (Neil's wife) CD, but he's credited as playing the "autoharp"! :roll:
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"Wallflower" by Bob Dylan.

didn't he play with Faron Young too?
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Thanks Michael, cool web site, and great info.
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Ann Murray's version of "Danny's Song".
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