Favorite all-time steelsolos

Sonny Priddy · Post by **Sonny Priddy** » 24 Dec 2008 7:44 pm

Anything By Lloyd Green. SONNY.

Tommy Shown · Post by **Tommy Shown** » 24 Dec 2008 8:19 pm

My favorite steel solo, hmmmm, let me see here, because there are so many that I have heard through my 50 years of life (lol). Weldon Myrick playing " I'll come runnin to you" by Connie Smith, "Don't Come
Home A Drinkin" with Hal Rugg, and i'm saving the best for last, "Lost In The Feeling" by Conway, with the great John Hughey playing, John played that song
so much feel in it that everytime I hear it I close my eyes and just visualize my wife and I on the dance floor dancing and like the line said in the bridge about her and the the music have gone to our heads. The steel guitar like i have said before is such a beautiful, beautiful instrument. They don't make steel players like him anymore.
tommy shown

Stephen Dorocke · Post by **Stephen Dorocke** » 25 Dec 2008 10:44 am

Too many to list for sure, but nobody has mentioned Pete Drake's beautiful playing on "Behind That Locked Door" from George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" album.

Dale Gray · Post by **Dale Gray** » 26 Dec 2008 12:10 pm

Blue Bayou, Bill Ferguson & JH on I Love You So Much, and Ricky Davis Farewell Party, and of course Buddy, Wimpy, and Bobbe.

Jimmie Misenheimer · Post by **Jimmie Misenheimer** » 26 Dec 2008 3:38 pm

Far too many for me to come up with just one or two, but unless I missed it, I'm surprised that nobody mentioned Weldon on "If Love Was A Bottle Of Wine". Happy Holidays - Jimmie

Don Drummer · Post by **Don Drummer** » 26 Dec 2008 5:30 pm

...and, since I'e been listening to this CD for 10 months, Randy Beavers "Lean On It". Ther is something very comfortable about hearing the tunes on his "My Favorite Things". The "West Side Story" tune "Somewhere" has me pushing repeat a lot as I'm driving down the road. Don D.

Kenny Martin · Post by **Kenny Martin** » 28 Dec 2008 6:25 pm

Tommy White live at the Opry with the Whites playin "If it ain't love"! In his solo he raises the first string on E9th with his finger on his left hand! Just an awesome player!! He was playin his red Emmons back then! It was smokin!!!

Mike Poholsky · Post by **Mike Poholsky** » 28 Dec 2008 7:43 pm

John Huey plays steel on a Dickie Betts solo record called "Highway Call". The song "Hand Picked" is an instrumental for everyone to air it out. Johns first solo (at 2:55) is great. At 3:35 he takes off a on a single note run that makes me jump out of my skin everytime I hear it. Just somethin' about it!

Buddy Emmons on Steve Youngs' "Renegade Picker" album. Pick any solo or fill. Nice bit of work by Buddy.

I like Buddy Cages "Sweet Lovin One" solo also.

Red Rhodes on Ian Matthews version of "Seven Bridges Road" Very COOL tone on that one!

Lucky Oceans "Jumpin' At the Woodside" solo on the self titled album "Asleep At The Wheel" Lucky did some really neat horn type stuff on that record and "Comin' At Ya"

Garcias' solo on "Dirty Business", for thinking outside the box. On the first NRPS record.

Ernest Cawby · Post by **Ernest Cawby** » 29 Dec 2008 11:41 am

BUT I wish to bring to attention one of the greastest, BILLY RONINSON, He played some great steel guitar his whole life time.And what a great man he is.

ernie

Adair Torres · Post by **Adair Torres** » 29 Dec 2008 3:31 pm

Anything by Mr. Buddy Emmons, Mr. John Hughey and of course Mr. Lloyd Green.

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 11 Feb 2009 6:56 pm

Sleepwalk by Santo & Johnny.

Mark Eaton · Post by **Mark Eaton** » 12 Feb 2009 8:23 am

Impossible for me to pick just one, but I have been listening to a lot on the iPod while out on walks with my dog Alan Jackson's "Remember When."

Lloyd Green's solo on that song is to me the essence of pedal steel playing at its finest. The word that comes to mind is: Eloquent

Alan Miller · Post by **Alan Miller** » 12 Feb 2009 3:04 pm

Pete Drake on " stronger than dirt " by Jimmy skinner and " exactly like him " by Adrian Roland . live recording at the grand ole opry 1966 , 39th anneversary of the opry LP, pure country steel .

Buddy Emmons "Getting over you again" is exquisite .

Daniel McKee · Post by **Daniel McKee** » 12 Feb 2009 4:07 pm

my favorite would be buddy charletons cool it or speedy west on honky tonk girl

Terry H Sutton · Post by **Terry H Sutton** » 12 Feb 2009 4:17 pm

I believe "Lost In The Feeling" was Paul Franklin

Mike Kirkley · Post by **Mike Kirkley** » 12 Feb 2009 5:38 pm

Well, like a lot of us, one of my favourites is Tom on "Together Again," and the terrific runs and licks on Jean Stafford's "Stealin' the Two-Step" and "Don't Bet Your Boots," and there's one really beautiful waltz that Waylon Jennings did called "Waltz Me to Heaven" that has an absolutely gorgeous steel turnarund in it...I don't know who did it, but that one is another of my faves, and there's "Blue Bayou," Jerry's "Teach Your Children Well," and the list goes on...Jay Dee with The Desert Rose Band, Mike Daley from George Strait's Ace in the Hole band, Michel Rose when he's playing anything, etc, etc, etc
Mike Kirkley
Sydney, Australia

Paddy Long · Post by **Paddy Long** » 12 Feb 2009 6:20 pm

Tom Brumley's solo in "I sang Dixie" by Dwight Joachim stands out for me as being very memorable !!

And Paul Franklins E9th and C6th solos in Alan Jackson's "I don't even know her name" !!!

Jim Hankins · Post by **Jim Hankins** » 13 Feb 2009 12:17 pm

If I can treat an entire steel insturmental , as a steel "solo": Dick Meis, Some Day Soon, who incidently favors a unique clean sound. However what makes this stand out as my favorite steel solo(insturmental ) is his beautiful melodic treatment for an already pretty song.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 17 Feb 2009 10:14 am

terry...bad place to jump in...john on feeling...

Jamie Lennon · Post by **Jamie Lennon** » 17 Feb 2009 7:00 pm

Walk if life solo by Paul Franklin with Dire Straits, yeah baby !!!

Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 10 Dec 2011 3:41 pm

I know...this is a really old post, but I just ran across it...Pretty much all you all have said...but the ones that seemed to get my attention way back when were Wynn Stewart's "Its such a pretty world today", but more the Nancy Sinatra version, way more...anything that Tom Brumley was doing with Buck Owens, I thought I'd have that figured out in a week or two...still don't...John Hughey on "Just Destroyed the World I'm living in"...but the one that really got me interested in steel, was I think Hal Ruggs, but truly have no idea then just a hunch on Cal Smiths, "The Lord knows I'm drinking"...nothing spectacular, but I remember the time and place when I first heard it and got goosebumbs...I told my Dad then and there, that's what I want to play...funny how some things are able to inspire us.

Jerry Meek · Post by **Jerry Meek** » 10 Dec 2011 4:47 pm

Back about the 5th or 6th year of the steel convention in ST Louis when Zane Beck was still alive I heard Randy Beavers play YESTERDAY on his ZB Custom and I've wished a 100 times I had recorded it because by the time I got home I couldn't remember any of it. I asked Randy at the Texas convention if he would play it but he said he couldn't remember playing it but I did

Bob Knight · Post by **Bob Knight** » 10 Dec 2011 4:53 pm

"...but the one that really got me interested in steel, was I think Hal Ruggs, but truly have no idea then just a hunch on Cal Smiths, "The Lord knows I'm drinking"

That was actually MR. John Hughey

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 10 Dec 2011 5:30 pm

This was also the song that got me to go see John and Cal at the NC State Fairgrounds Arena. I was gathering material for one of my FENDER/FRETTS articles and had a small grandaughter with me. A guard tossed me out even though John tried to stop it but I told him to leave it lay because I had what I'd come for. They played TLKID right at the beginning because John knew I was going to hang outside until I heard it.

Some weeks later our band was playing a benefit at the same arena and I saw that same guard in the crowd. Told our singer I couldn't play with him out there and he got him tossed out. What I wouldn't have given to see his face when the Chief of Security told him to go home.

Regards, Paul

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