The Steel Guitar Forum Store 

Post new topic Listening Suggestions
Reply to topic
Author Topic:  Listening Suggestions
Tim McKane


From:
North Carolina, USA
Post  Posted 30 Nov 2009 1:26 pm    
Reply with quote

I am new playing a lap steel and also playing dobro, can antone suggest who would be the best to listen to? any genre is fine

thanks

Tim
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail

Stephen Abruzzo

 

From:
Philly, PA
Post  Posted 30 Nov 2009 2:46 pm    
Reply with quote

The Best???? Very Happy

I can give you some things to listen to:

Sonny Rhodes has a few bluesy lap steel CD's out. Check out Jackson Browne's CD's from the 70's with David Lindley on lap steel. Great stuff.

If you like BLUES....you can take any slide guitar solo and play it on lap steel so long as there's no fretting involved.
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail

Steve Norman


From:
Seattle Washington, USA
Post  Posted 30 Nov 2009 5:03 pm    
Reply with quote

I think the "Allison Krause and Union Station" is a great motivator as Jerry Douglas rocks her music on Dobro. Anything with him, Mike Auldrige for Lap, Jerry Byrd, Hank Williams, Asleep at the wheel, Bob Wills, Spade Cooley any of these:

http://westernswing78.blogspot.com/2009/09/joaquin-murphey.html


good instructional's are the dobro and lap steel videos from Cindy CashDollar
_________________
GFI D10, Fender Steel King, Hilton Vpedal,BoBro, National D dobro, Marrs RGS
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website

Tim McKane


From:
North Carolina, USA
Post  Posted 1 Dec 2009 5:43 pm    
Reply with quote

Thanks for the suggestions
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail

Andy Volk


From:
Boston, MA
Post  Posted 1 Dec 2009 5:57 pm    
Reply with quote

Acoustic:

Jerry Douglas, Restless on the Farm, The Best Kept Secret, Skip Hop & Wobble, The Transatlantic Sessions (DVD)
Harry Manx - Dog My Cat, In Good We Trust, Mantras For Madmen
Kelly Joe Phelps - Roll Away the Stone
Don Rook - The Henrys
Kevin Breit - In Good We Trust
Cindy Cashdollar - Slide Show
Debashish Bhattacharya - Calcutta Slide Guitar
Bob Brozman - many good CDS; recommend with Led Kapaana & Cyril Pahinui
Vishwa Mohan Bhattt & Ry Cooder (A Meeting by a River)
Mike Auldridge - Dobro, Treasures Untold, The Resophonics, Eight String Swing
Orville Johnson - Slide & Joy, Freehand
Barney Isaacs - Hawaiian Touch
Dave Tronzo (bottleneck)
Mike Neer (with the Moonlighters)
Stacy Philips
V.M. Bhatt
Phil Leadbetter - Philabuster
Rob Ickes, Slide City, Big Time, What it Is
Paddy Burgin
Fred Kinbom, Hedgehogs & Elephants
The Great Dobro Sessions

Electric:

Joaquin Murphey with Spade Cooley or Andy Parker
Leon McAuliffe, Noel Boggs w/ Bob Wills (Tiffiny Transcriptions)
Jr. Brown
Santo & Johnny
Billy Robinson - YouTube live clips
Bobbe Seymour - YouTube clips
Steinar Gregertsen, Southern Moon Northern Lights
Jerry Byrd - On the Shores of Waikiki; Hi-Fi Guitar
Sol Ho'op'ii & Dick McIntire - check out the Cumquat Records catalog
Billy Hew Len
Sacred Steelers ... Cambell Brothers, Aubrey Ghent
David Lindley, El-Rayo-X, live CDs
Jeremy Wakefiled, Steel Guitar Caviar,Flaming Guitars of Biller & Wakefield, Deke Dickerson's DVDs
Herb Remington
Lee Jeffreiss w/ Big Sandy & his Fly-Rite Boys
Greg Leisz
Nob Sugino
Mike Neer - new lessons
Ben Harper
_________________
Steel Guitar Books! Website: www.volkmediabooks.com


Last edited by Andy Volk on 2 Dec 2009 3:17 am; edited 1 time in total
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website

Tim McKane


From:
North Carolina, USA
Post  Posted 1 Dec 2009 6:13 pm    
Reply with quote

Hi Andy.. that's quite a list...

thank you

Andy Volk wrote:
Acoustic:

Jerry Douglas, Restless on the Farm, The Best Kept Secret, Skip Hop & Wobble, The Transatlantic Sessions (DVD)
Harry Manx - Dog My Cat, In Good We Trust, Mantras For Madmen
Kelly Joe Phelps - Roll Away the Stone
Don Rook - The Henrys
Kevin Breit - In Good We Trust
Cindy Cashdollar - Slide Show
Debashish Bhattacharya - Calcutta Slide Guitar
Bob Brozman - many good CDS; recommend with Led Kapaana & Cyril Pahinui
Vishwa Mohan Bhattt & Ry Cooder (A Meeting by a River)
Mike Auldridge - Dobro, Treasures Untold, The Resophonics, Eight String Swing
Orville Johnson - Slide & Joy, Freehand
Barney Isaacs - Hawaiian Touch
Dave Tronzo (bottleneck)
Mike Neer (with the Moonlighters)
Stacy Philips
V.M. Bhatt
Phil Leadbetter - Philabuster
Rob Ickes, Slide City, Big Time, What it Is
Paddy Burgin
Fred Kinbom, Hedgehogs & Elephants
The Great Dobro Sessions

Electric:

Joaquin Murphey with Spade Cooley or Andy Parker
Leon McAuliffe, Noel Boggs w/ Bob Wills (Tiffiny Transcriptions)
Jr. Brown
Santo & Johnny
Billy Robinson - YouTube live clips
Bobbe Seymour - YouTube clips
Steinar Gregertsen, Southern Moon Northern Lights
Jerry Byrd - On the Shores of Waikiki; Hi-Fi Guitar
Sol Ho'op'ii & Dick McIntire - check out the Cumquat Records catalog
Billy Hew Len
Sacred Steelers ... Cambell Brothers, Aubrey Ghent
David Lindley, El-Rayo-X, live CDs
Jeremy Wakefiled, Steel Guitar Caviar,Flaming Guitars of Biller & Wakefield, Deke Dickerson's DVDs
Herb Remington
Lee Jeffreiss w/ Big Sandy & his Fly-Rite Boys
Greg Leisz
Nob Sugino
Mike Neer - new lessons
Ben Harper
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail

Steve Norman


From:
Seattle Washington, USA
Post  Posted 1 Dec 2009 10:57 pm    
Reply with quote

Timothy I recommend Andy Volk's books on lap steel. You'll learn a whole bunch about what your listening to. I always go to his book when I hear a song like to dig into whats going on.

Lots of great interviews and tunings. You need these if your playing lap.
_________________
GFI D10, Fender Steel King, Hilton Vpedal,BoBro, National D dobro, Marrs RGS
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website

Ulrich Sinn


From:
California, USA
Post  Posted 2 Dec 2009 3:09 pm     Tom Morrell
Reply with quote

Hi -

I'm surprised that Tom Morrell has not been mentioned. Every single CD leaves me in awe ... and the occasional track he played on dobro just kill me!

U.
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website

Tim McKane


From:
North Carolina, USA
Post  Posted 2 Dec 2009 3:21 pm    
Reply with quote

Thanks.. I ordered one the other day.

Tim
Steve Norman wrote:
Timothy I recommend Andy Volk's books on lap steel. You'll learn a whole bunch about what your listening to. I always go to his book when I hear a song like to dig into whats going on.

Lots of great interviews and tunings. You need these if your playing lap.
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail

Tom Wolverton


From:
Carpinteria, CA
Post  Posted 2 Dec 2009 3:40 pm     Morrell
Reply with quote

Ulrich - Can you recommend a good Tom Morrell CD - one where he uses that 10-string non-pedal E13th tuning maybe?
_________________
To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail

Ulrich Sinn


From:
California, USA
Post  Posted 2 Dec 2009 5:21 pm     How The West Was Swung - Vol. 4/13 - Pterodactyl Tales
Reply with quote

If I had to pick just 1 Tom Morell CD:
How The West Was Swung - Vol. 4/13 - Pterodactyl Tales

It's less Western Swing and more Jazz.

I also very much like #12, check out "blue lou" for playing jazz on standard dobro tuning!

But they are all really good, considering that this is a somewhat, uhm, historic style of playing.

U.
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website


All times are GMT - 8 Hours
Jump to:  

Our Online Catalog
Strings, CDs, instruction,
steel guitars & accessories

www.SteelGuitarShopper.com

Please review our Forum Rules and Policies

Steel Guitar Forum LLC
PO Box 237
Mount Horeb, WI 53572 USA


Click Here to Send a Donation

Email admin@steelguitarforum.com for technical support.


BIAB Styles
Ray Price Shuffles for
Band-in-a-Box

by Jim Baron
HTTP