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Topic: Which Bobbie played with Bob Wills |
Bill McCloskey
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Nanuet, NY
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Posted 6 May 2010 7:39 am |
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Watching a Bob Wills video on youtube and he introduces the steel player as Bobbie.
Would that be bob dunn? the guy doesn't look at the fret board once. He stars straight at the camera. It is pretty weird to watch. |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 6 May 2010 8:09 am
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Bobby Koefer. Did you get a look at his bar grip? He plays a straight bar and holds it in a most unusual fashion. He is a great player. He did some great recordings with Tom Morrell that I recommend highly.
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Bill McCloskey
From:
Nanuet, NY
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Posted 6 May 2010 8:22 am
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Yeah, I noticed the bar grip right away.
I thought maybe it was overdubbed because he was just flying around the strings and didn't look down once. Kind of unnerving. |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Bill Hampton
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 6 May 2010 9:48 am
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Just saw Bobby down in Turkey TX at Bob Wills' Days -- he's really a showman!!
How he gets that much music out of only a thumb pick is absolutely amazing. |
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Bill McCloskey
From:
Nanuet, NY
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Posted 6 May 2010 9:57 am
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| How he gets that much music out of only a thumb pick is absolutely amazing. |
I missed that. He plays with only a thumb pick? I did notice it seemed a strumming kind of style. |
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Bill Hampton
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 6 May 2010 12:09 pm
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Yup -- he only uses his thumb.
He said he had no one teach him as a boy in Arkansas, and didn't know any better when he was learning to play. |
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Jussi Huhtakangas
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Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 6 May 2010 9:46 pm
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Just to clear the facts, the Snader transcription of Sittin'...is indeed a live studio recording, not dubbed. |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 7 May 2010 8:59 am
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| That's one of the best aspects of those early pay-for-views, all that I've seen were live, and often that's the only chace to see the long gone known and quasi-unknowns do it for real. Bobby is one of the very few in those vids that is still with us, and still playing! |
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Sonny Jenkins
From:
Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx
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Posted 8 May 2010 7:24 am
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| That "Sittin' On Top,,," session had several unconventional aspects,,,,a lefty fiddle player,,,,and a lefty guitar player!!!! |
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 8 May 2010 8:11 am
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| He is certainly a self taught musician, using only a thumb pick, and holding the bar in that unusual way, like spreading something with a trowel!! Sure gets it done though!! |
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Chris Scruggs
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Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 9 May 2010 11:56 pm
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| The "lefty fiddle player" is Joe Holley. |
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Jussi Huhtakangas
From:
Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 12 May 2010 12:00 am
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| And the lefty guitarist is Cotton Whittington. |
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