If you could only name one??

James Fleming · Post by **James Fleming** » 4 Sep 2009 3:43 pm

What would be your favorite song that features Steel?

Why?

Tnks,

Jim

John P. Phillips · Post by **John P. Phillips** » 4 Sep 2009 4:41 pm

"Lost In The Feeling " Poppa John. Nuff said.

Bill Dobkins · Post by **Bill Dobkins** » 4 Sep 2009 5:42 pm

You don't have very far to go.
Merl Haggard.
BD

Joe Wheeler · Post by **Joe Wheeler** » 4 Sep 2009 5:48 pm

Together Again and I'm sure you know who sang and who played it.

Pete Young · Post by **Pete Young** » 4 Sep 2009 7:09 pm

Look at us For me it was one of the greatest steel parts going Second would be Rose colored glasses

Andy Jones · Post by **Andy Jones** » 4 Sep 2009 7:28 pm

That's a tough one,James.There are so many great songs by so many great players.The one that comes to mind at this moment is"Last Date"by the great John Hughey.I listened to Conway Twitty for years,not knowing who the steel player was.I remembered reading "John Hughey" on the LP jacket.I always thought,"this man's playing gives me goose bumps making that steel cry like he does".Then I went to a steel show at Gulfport,MS and he was there.I asked him if he was that John Hughey and he said,"that was me".I told him how much how much joy his playing had given me through the years and I thanked him for that.I later had my picture taken with him at the Dallas show.What makes it so special is that he was a Christian;so we'll talk about it again someday.

Andy

Shane Glover · Post by **Shane Glover** » 4 Sep 2009 8:50 pm

Trick Rider by Mcbride & the Ride. Joe Rogers is a killer player and a super nice guy !!

Tommy Shown · Post by **Tommy Shown** » 4 Sep 2009 10:03 pm

Boy that's a tough one.There's so many that I like.
Lost in the feeling and Look at us . I mean John Hughey really nails them both, And Buddy Emmons on his white album doing that medley of songs that include Orange Blossom Special, Steel Guitar Rag, Remington Ride, and Bud's Bounce.James I'm sorry but there are alot of them that are my personal favorites.It is so hard for me to decide.
Tommy Shown

Charles Davidson · Post by **Charles Davidson** » 4 Sep 2009 10:56 pm

That's a hard one,I do remember one years ago that had beautiful steel. HE SANG DIXIE by Dwight Yoakam. Anyone know you played steel on this one ? YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.

dlayne · Post by **dlayne** » 5 Sep 2009 1:18 am

Did'nt the GREAT Tom Brumley play on I Sang Dixie

Geoff Marshall · Post by **Geoff Marshall** » 5 Sep 2009 1:27 am

He sang dixie = Tom Brumley

Bob Carlucci · Post by **Bob Carlucci** » 5 Sep 2009 3:24 am

Teach Your Children

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 5 Sep 2009 4:31 am

I guess my all-time favorite would be Gary Deans's "Right Kind Of Love", with flawless playing by Ralph Mooney. The phrasing is perfection, so good that no one could do that twice. But what really gets me is the sound...it just barks...jumps right out of the speaker. Never heard anything like that before or since - even from Moon, himself. Some of Brumley's stuff comes kinda close, though.

Dennis Graves · Post by **Dennis Graves** » 5 Sep 2009 6:59 am

Together Again....Tom Brumley

Les Green · Post by **Les Green** » 6 Sep 2009 6:51 am

Buddy Emmons - Half A mind - with ET backup

Per Berner · Post by **Per Berner** » 6 Sep 2009 8:09 am

One kiss away from loneliness, Amber Digby (Dickey Overby)

...and Waltz Across Texas, Ernest Tubb (Buddy Charleton)
...Different kind of Flower, Ray Price (Buddy Emmons)
...Borrowed angel, Mel Street (Lloyd Green)
...Hank Western, Gary Stewart (Weldon Myrick)
...I'm sorry for you, my friend, Moe Bandy (Weldon Myrick)

...and a few hundred more

Geoff Cline · Post by **Geoff Cline** » 6 Sep 2009 8:28 am

MINORS ALOUD A revelation about what pedal steel guitar was (or capable of being). It redefined the instrument and made me want to go there...

And it only took me 30 years to get up the gumption to acquire one and learn how to play it!

James Fleming · Post by **James Fleming** » 7 Sep 2009 8:23 am

Thanks for the in-put fellas. Since I started this thread I guess I should put in my 2 cents.

Everybody's had the blues, Merle Haggard

After that it goes like this for me:

Slowly, Webb Pierce
Keys in the mailbox, Buck Owens
Easy Loving, Freddie Hart
Together Again, Buck Owens
Teach your Children, CSNY
Far Away Eyes, Stones
Rose Colored Glasses, John Connley
Look At Us, Vince Gill
Here in the real World, Alan Jackson

OK I know I just said one, but I just couldn't do it either

C Dixon · Post by **C Dixon** » 7 Sep 2009 9:41 am

Lap Steel="La Golendrina", as Jerry Byrd played it on his album "Hi Fi Guitar" in the '50's.

Pedal Steel="Once Upon a Time in the West", by Buddy Emmons as he played it on the stage of the Chase Park Plaza hotel at the ISGC in '77.

Both of these "classics" bring chills and thrills beyond what I can describe.

I agree that Tom Brumley's "Together Again" and John Hughey's "Look at Us" were awesome and virtuous.

c.

Larry Behm · Post by **Larry Behm** » 7 Sep 2009 11:56 am

Blue Jade by the Big E.

Exodus by Buddy at the convention years ago, it took my breath away.

Larry Behm

Jim Peters · Post by **Jim Peters** » 7 Sep 2009 12:18 pm

Depending on my mood, either Bad Weather or Panama Red. JP

Jim Means · Post by **Jim Means** » 7 Sep 2009 4:52 pm

No Contest. Jimmy Day's break on Johnny Bush's Farewell Party. The reason: more emotion than you would think humanly possible. I guess that's why they called him Mister Country Soul. For me, no convention has been complete since we lost him.

Jim in Missouri

Jim Lindsey (Louisiana) · Post by **Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)** » 8 Sep 2009 1:08 pm

Man, talk about difficult ... I really can't say that I have a particular or single favorite ... but, there is one that always sticks out in my mind simultaneously along with the score of many others I'd call my favorites ... and that is Rusty Young's first steel ride in Poco's "Bad Weather" (there are two rides in that song).

Along with that one and all the others mentioned here, I'd have to say that my ultimate favorites would be anything by the late Gary Hogue.

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 8 Sep 2009 3:41 pm

jim means wrote:No Contest. Jimmy Day's break on Johnny Bush's Farewell Party. The reason: more emotion than you would think humanly possible. I guess that's why they called him Mister Country Soul. For me, no convention has been complete since we lost him.

what he said...

basilh · Post by **basilh** » 8 Sep 2009 4:03 pm

Buddy Emmons on the Roger Miller album 'Trip in the Country' "Nothing can stop my lovin' you."
Gordon Huntley on "Woodstock" and Rod King on "Jennifer Eccles"
The solo on "You'd Better Think Twice" is pretty smart..

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