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Michael Lee Allen
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Posted 20 Jan 2008 11:10 am |
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scott murray
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Posted 20 Jan 2008 1:56 pm
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so critics didn't know squat back in 1964, either?
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Michael Lee Allen
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Posted 20 Jan 2008 2:22 pm
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Herb Steiner
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Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 20 Jan 2008 6:39 pm
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Thank the Lord Buddy showed it was possible to make "warm, pensive statements with the steel guitar." Otherwise, I'd be out of work... like I am now, come to think of it. 
The reviewer actually acknowledged that he dug what Buddy was "trying to do!" 
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Roger Shackelton
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Posted 29 Jan 2008 10:18 pm
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In an interview some years ago, Buddy was recounting his feelings about the Steel Guitar Jazz session. Ray Price had flown Buddy to NYC from Nashville in a small airplane. The small airplane had a low weight limit and Buddy was unable to take an amp with a 15 inch speaker. His amp had a 12 inch speaker & broke up quite easily during the recording session. Buddy was unable to get the sound that he really wanted at the recording session. After the session was over, Buddy said he was very depressed about the results of that session.
I'm sure the photo of the Multichord on the record jacket didn't help record sales either.
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Jay Jessup
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Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2008 10:03 am
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Cody Campbell
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Nashville, Tennessee
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Posted 30 Jan 2008 10:48 am
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| I thought pianist Bobby Scott did an excellent job on several tunes from that seesion, such as "Indiana", "Cherokee", "Oleo", etc. |
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Jay Jessup
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Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2008 10:56 am
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| I haven't listened to SG jazz in a long time so you may be right but the main piano sound I hear in my mind when I think of SGJ is the endless Floyd Cramer style stuff he does on that tune, I think its Gonna Build a Mtn? It almost sounds like he is making fun of Buddy and the steel on that tune. |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 30 Jan 2008 11:25 am
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Jay
I think that "Gonna Build A Mountain" is so diatonic in nature that Bobby Scott thought he was on a hillbilly date (and played that way), and Buddy thought it was a jazz session. I don't think there was musical sarcasm involved.
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Dan Tyack
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Olympia, WA USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2008 10:32 pm
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Two and a half stars for a downbeat review in the mid 60s is not bad. Especially for an instrument for which most of the jazz establishment had no respect for.
One thing which I think is clear: Buddy did better than any steel player could have have done at the time on that date, considering the environment and the challenges. |
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