What's your favorite "semi-obscure" steel solo?

Clyde Mattocks · Post by **Clyde Mattocks** » 30 Jan 2009 8:06 am

Yeah Ellis, that really is a good one. Hank was on
one of the Nashville shows and Tommy White quoted that solo pretty faithfully. The place with the cool note choice in the II chord.

Hook Moore · Post by **Hook Moore** » 30 Jan 2009 8:47 am

Seldom ever mentioned, Paul Franklin's ride in " Shes crazy for leaving " Rodney Crowell..
Hook

Carl Heatley · Post by **Carl Heatley** » 30 Jan 2009 10:49 am

When I get bored I like to have a try at working out
the breaks on Brad Paisles`s `Mr.Policeman`.(for about ten mins,then give up)

Randall Currie has to be my favoriete modern players.

Keith Murrow · Post by **Keith Murrow** » 30 Jan 2009 11:12 am

John David Call's intro and solo to "Out In The Street", from Pure Prairie League's If The Shoe Fits LP.

Alan Kendall · Post by **Alan Kendall** » 30 Jan 2009 12:00 pm

Ray Montee · Post by **Ray Montee** » 30 Jan 2009 12:23 pm

Jimmie Short's recording (formerly with Ernest Tubb) of "KENTUCKY".......featured JERRY BYRD's fabulous steel guitar stylings and TONE.

A rare, rare example of steel guitar at its finest!

robert kramer · Post by **robert kramer** » 30 Jan 2009 1:34 pm

Buddy Emmons' solo on Linda Ronstadt's "In My Reply."

Bob Grado · Post by **Bob Grado** » 30 Jan 2009 1:55 pm

John David Calls' solo on "I'll fix your flat tire Merle"

Henry Nagle · Post by **Henry Nagle** » 30 Jan 2009 2:51 pm

Pete Siegal on Kate Wolf's "Early Morning Melody".

Ken Mizell · Post by **Ken Mizell** » 30 Jan 2009 5:43 pm

Red Rhodes intros and turnarounds on "Games People Play" and "These Are Not My People" by Freddy Weller, circa 1969. Great! (The entire album has great playing)

Ralph Mooney's intro and turnaround on Wynn Stewarts "If Tomorrow Could Be Yesterday."

Sneaky Pete on Linda Ronstadt's "I Fall to Pieces" and "Crazy Arms" recorded live at the Palomino club.

James Collett · Post by **James Collett** » 30 Jan 2009 6:50 pm

Another one- Paul Franklin's awesome solo on George's cover of "Funny How Time Slips Away"- George's voice may be about shot, but that solo makes everything worth it!

Randy Koenen · Post by **Randy Koenen** » 30 Jan 2009 6:57 pm

My all time favorite has got to be John David Call's lead on Two Lane Highway from the Pure Prairie League Live Taking the stage album....

Michael Johnstone · Post by **Michael Johnstone** » 30 Jan 2009 8:35 pm

How bout this one.

http://mp3.rhapsody.com/the-flying-burr ... -red-album

It's Sneaky Pete's solo on "Diggi Liggi Li" off the Burrito Bros "Red Album" which was a live radio broadcast out of L.A. back in the mid 70s. I heard it live BTW and taped it off the air on cassette as it went down and that's all I had for decades till it was finally released a couple years ago on CD on Gib's label. It's not my favorite BB line up but it's not bad and Pete's at the top of his game,gets a lot of good solos and even sings Faded Love. I saw this same line up a few months later at the Palomino and he did the exact same solo thru two cranked Session 400s and it filled the room with soaring Sneakyness.

Ken Mizell · Post by **Ken Mizell** » 30 Jan 2009 8:53 pm

I checked out Sneaky on Diggy Liggy Li - that's great stuff. That's a smokin' steel break, for sure. I might have to buy some of those tunes.

Terry H Sutton · Post by **Terry H Sutton** » 31 Jan 2009 8:12 am

In my HO Paul Franklin on "Lost In The Feeling" by Mark Chesnutt on the album of the same name.

Kelly Hydorn · Post by **Kelly Hydorn** » 1 Feb 2009 3:21 pm

Back in the 70's there was a singer out of Texas named Dotsy, I think, and she had an arrangement of "Storms never Last" with Weldon Myrick doing the turnaround and it was IMHO very tastefully done. Still like to listen to it.

Tommy Shown · Post by **Tommy Shown** » 1 Feb 2009 4:44 pm

I would have to say Jr. Knight on the instrumental break on Lee Ann Rimes song Blue. I mean the fluidness of the melody in my opinion make it one of the all time greats.
Tommy Shown

ebb · Post by **ebb** » 1 Feb 2009 5:07 pm

i think that was milos deering

Joe Gretz · Post by **Joe Gretz** » 1 Feb 2009 7:00 pm

I really like the steel solo in a song called "Going Nowhere". It's on an album called "For The Country" by a band called "Dump Truck". It was released in the mid 80's...really good stuff! I read on the internet that BJ Cole is the Steeler, but I cannot confirm. Hearing that song was the final thing that pushed me to the point of no return!

I think I'll go listen to it before I go to bed!

Joe

Ernie Renn · Post by **Ernie Renn** » 1 Feb 2009 10:28 pm

All the solo's Buddy played on the western swing side of Bobby Hick's LP, Texas Crapshooter. Pretty nice stuff...

Daniel Morris · Post by **Daniel Morris** » 2 Feb 2009 2:13 pm

So is that fur shur that BJ Cole played on the Roger Daltrey solo album cut, in the above clip? Trying to get a confirmation for a buddy of mine. Thanks.

Joe Gretz · Post by **Joe Gretz** » 2 Feb 2009 2:39 pm

Yup!

BJ Cole has a website, on on it he lists session work he's done over the years. He mentions that album, but not the Dumptruck recording I was talking about earlier.

Joe

Daniel Morris · Post by **Daniel Morris** » 2 Feb 2009 2:58 pm

Thanks, Joe, I'd forgotten BJ's site has a rather extensive listing of his work. One of my early favorites and influences (Cochise's SWALLOW TALES), and still one of the most interesting players, BJ Cole continues to push the envelope.

Johnny Thomasson · Post by **Johnny Thomasson** » 2 Feb 2009 6:34 pm

I don't know that I'd call it "obscure", but I haven't read a lot of discussion here on the steel break in "I'll Be There". That's some of the most incredible blocking I've ever heard. I learned it note for note off the record, but I can't execute it worth crap.

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 3 Feb 2009 4:30 am

My favorites, as well as some of the most obscure, would be the sides that Ralph Mooney cut for Gary Dean. They are, IMHO, the best stuff that Moon ever did, and rank near the top for sound, style, and "in your face" tone and drive in any country song.

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