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Gordy Rex · Post by **Gordy Rex** » 8 Jun 2009 5:58 pm

Just moved into the Greensboro area from Pa. I would like to find some local players, make some friends and hear some pickin'.

Bill Duncan · Post by **Bill Duncan** » 9 Jun 2009 5:59 pm

Hey Gordy,
Welcome to North Carolina! I live in the town of Lenoir, about sixty miles to the west of Greensboro.

Gordy Rex · Post by **Gordy Rex** » 10 Jun 2009 3:23 pm

Bill,

Thanks, for saying hi... Do you play live if so let me know if you get over this so I can hear ya...

Gordy

Bob Baringer · Post by **Bob Baringer** » 10 Jun 2009 3:51 pm

Hey Gordy, now why did you go and move, if it keeps going we will run short of Steel Pickers here in Northeast Pa. Good Luck on your move and I know you will be out pickin' pretty quick...Bob

Nathan Golub · Post by **Nathan Golub** » 10 Jun 2009 5:18 pm

Hey Gordy, welcome to NC. The Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area has lots of great music & some great steel players. Check out the Berkley Cafe & the Pour House in Raleigh, they both get a lot of great roots/country bands in the No Depression category. Also, the Cats Cradle in Chapel Hill always has good shows. I play pedal steel in a band called John Howie Jr & the Rosewood Bluff. If you catch a show, please say hi.

David Collins · Post by **David Collins** » 11 Jun 2009 3:59 am

Hi Gordy,

Welcome to the Tarheel State!

I play at Mayodan United Methodist Church every Sunday morning at the 8:30 am Service.

Mayodan is about 20 miles north of G'boro, just off Highway 220. Would love to meet you.

Gordy Rex · Post by **Gordy Rex** » 11 Jun 2009 1:42 pm

Hey guys this is great. Please keep the information coming and thanks for helping to make this transition easier. All the great things I've been hearing about the area is starting to show. I will definitely be getting out asap to see and hear. I don't want to take away any work from anyone, but it somebody out there needs a fill in. I would be glad to help out.... Also I will be looking to find a home for me and my family over the next few months. Any insight as to county, city or development area would be helpful and appreciated.
Thanks folks

Gordy

Gordy Rex · Post by **Gordy Rex** » 11 Jun 2009 2:03 pm

Bobby B.

Thanks for posting. I'm am gonna miss home since I lived there all my life, but we all have to work and this is where life is taking me now. I haven't told too many folks up north yet that I moved so if my name comes up any time pass on the info. Do you know if Skip Mertz is still in Fayetteville area? Haven't heard him play for many years. Keep in touch..
Gordy

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 11 Jun 2009 2:36 pm

He Gordy, t prior here in Charlotte, come on down and say hi !

Joe Smith is here as well, David Mullis is right over the border in Rock Hill, Brian Hudson is also in Rock Hill, Buster Warren is here in Charlotte too.

There a whole bunch of us within striking distance.
welcome to NC

tp

Ricky Hagan · Post by **Ricky Hagan** » 11 Jun 2009 3:38 pm

Hi Gordy,
Glad to have you here in NC.There's a lot of steel players in NC.Here's some that I know.
Clyde Mattocks (Kinston)
Bowie Martin (Wilson)
Ray Walker (Smithfeid)He makes the great seats
Bryant Aycock (Fremont)
Glen Lanning (Legrange)
Allen Love (Raleigh)
Danny Blizzard (Castaia)
Larry Hyde (Nashville)
I consider all these guys great friends and great players.I play for the Oak Grove Boys out of Elm City NC.www.oakgroveboys.com.If I can help you meet anybody feel free to call me at 252 205 6039

Keith Poteat · Post by **Keith Poteat** » 11 Jun 2009 5:45 pm

Gordy, Glad to have you here in good ol' NC. My wife works in Greensboro. We moved up here to Trinity after I retired to get her closer to work. Greensboro is about 20 minutes from here and will be closer once they finish the 311 By-Pass. Trinity is a nice mostly rural area. I've seen quite a few houses for sale. Give me a holler if I can help. Keith kp1@triad.rr.com 336=474-6770

Jerome Hawkes · Post by **Jerome Hawkes** » 12 Jun 2009 4:27 am

Gordy - yes, Skip is still in Fayetteville - he is running a really high end hobby shop off I-95. i talked with him yesterday - he is working 7 days a week, i dont know how he does it - but when you find something you enjoy, the energy just comes - his shop phone is 910-480-1234 - drop him a line, i'm sure he'd like to hear from some PA natives.

Bowie Martin · Post by **Bowie Martin** » 12 Jun 2009 9:30 am

Gordy, welcome! I plan with Nancy & Tammy Dail and the Country Roads Band (www.thecountryroadsband.com); plus I run the Country Tonight Show at the Ice House Theatre, in Selma (on Hwy 95); the show runs each Friday night and we use six different bands; house rule: band must have a steel player! Clyde Mattocks plays with "Without Further Ado" and the Malpass Brothers, Bryant Aycock with Eric Strickland and the Nashville Rash (they are playing the show tonight!), Tim Tyner with "Southern Storm". Joe Wright will be doing a show at the theatre on Sunday, July 12. Check out the website: www.countrytonightmusicshow.com.

Let me know if you are ever over this way (Wilson, Selma, etc.)

Gordy Rex · Post by **Gordy Rex** » 12 Jun 2009 2:11 pm

Guys,

Thanks again all of you for the responses. It looks like I will have plenty of places to go for a while as soon as things slow down a little at work and I get settled in my apartment.... My job is in service and this time a year we are extremely busy, 10 hours days and 6 days a week, hopefully we'll slow down soon. Also sounds like making friends will be easy. Isn't this forum great, it sure make the world smaller....
Gordy

PS. I think I heard of the Ice House before just can't remember where or when sounds like my kind of place.

Alan Harrison · Post by **Alan Harrison** » 12 Jun 2009 5:40 pm

Do any of you know or have heard of Leonard Neatherton, (the spelling of his last name may be wrong). I think he was from the Ashville area. When I knew him in the mid 80's, he was playing in Hickory at a big BBQ and Dance Hall up on the hill by the airport. Good player and at that time was playing a Franklin....alan

Glen E. Lanning · Post by **Glen E. Lanning** » 12 Jun 2009 6:41 pm

Check out MASGA (Mid Atlantic Steel Guitar Association). www.masga.org
Our next jam will be in Thomasville, NC on August 8th with Bobbe Seymour and our own Joe Turner. We always have some exceptional steel players jamming.

Stan Knowles NC · Post by **Stan Knowles NC** » 15 Jun 2009 6:02 pm

HI GORDY...AND WELCOME TO NORTH CAROLINA!

I LIVE DOWN HERE ON THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST
IN WILMINGTON.....AND SO DOES MY FRIEND,
WAYNE MIDGET.

WE'RE GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE IN THE "TAR HEEL"
STATE!

Jack Strayhorn · Post by **Jack Strayhorn** » 16 Jun 2009 6:10 pm

Gordy, I live right next door in Winston-Salem. Burlington, home of the Emmons guitar, is just east of you. I worked there for 12 years. There is another player/builder in Gboro, Doug Palmer. I play several times a month at a family oriented dance hall in King, NC, Turner's Opry House.

Bill Duncan · Post by **Bill Duncan** » 17 Jun 2009 7:23 am

Hi Alan,
The BBQ place you are talking about, Clemment Center, is now a church. Mr. Clemment, who was a pedal steel picker, died several years ago. Jeff Newman used to come there in the eighties and give classes for Mr. Clemment. I am from Hickory, NC.

Alan Harrison · Post by **Alan Harrison** » 17 Jun 2009 7:36 am

Thanks Bill, I worked for Mr. Clemment for about six months at the center as Media Manager. We Called Him C One. Good old boy. Thats where I met Len. I think it was around 1985.

Chuck Snider · Post by **Chuck Snider** » 17 Jun 2009 11:30 am

Hi Gordy, welcome to NC. Although this is a little different than steel music, you might want to check it out to make a few connections and also might enjoy the music. In Greensboro there is the High Lonesome Strings Bluegrass Association, you might Google that and track them down. I know about the organization, but not any details on contacting them. They have gatherings of various sorts somewhat often. I know one guy from it named Ed Sullivan who is a fairly active member, and if you're interested in contacting him if you send me a PM or email I'll share that with you.

I live near Roxboro, which is about 25 miles straight north of Durham. From Greenboro about 50 miles if you take the Haw River exit from I85 and follow RT 49 to Roxboro. I would recommend connecting with the MASGA bunch that Glen Lanning mentioned earlier. Lot of great guys in that organization. There are a number of steelers around Greensboro and up towards Reidsville. Of those that responded here I know Glen now thru MASGA and Nathan I met after seeing his name mentioned in an article in a local paper called The Independent which cover local entertainment in the Durham/Chapel Hill areas.

I've only been at this since last July, so still pretty much a newbie. However, if you ever want somewhere to go, feel free to stop over for a visit/jam i'm only about an hour or so away from you.

See ya around,

-Chuck

Gordy Rex · Post by **Gordy Rex** » 17 Jun 2009 2:55 pm

Guys even more good stuff thanks....
Mr Strayhorn I certainly heard your name before, I am still an Emmons man....
Gordy

Gordy Rex · Post by **Gordy Rex** » 18 Jul 2009 2:33 pm

Looks like work might slow down soon and I should be able
To get out and find some of guys. Any fairs or outside gigs
coming up in the next few months?

Doug Palmer · Post by **Doug Palmer** » 19 Jul 2009 7:33 am

Gordy, welcome to G'boro. I live here. Give me a call and we'll do lunch sometime. There is right much work around here and I can get you some phone numbers. Do you play an Emmons? Try to come to the Thomasville show in a few weeks. Directions on the Forum Events.

Doug Palmer 336-674-8200

Ken Prutzman · Post by **Ken Prutzman** » 25 Jul 2009 4:42 pm

Wow looks like I'll have a longer drive for lessons

Gordy keep in touch. Send me an Email

Kenny

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