"It's the First Time" - 9 Steel Guitars with Jimm

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 4 Aug 2010 2:23 am

I don't know if this has been posted before.

Here is a youtube (audio only) of a 1976 recording of Jimmy Bryant with 9 steel guitarists, including Julian Tharpe, Buddy Emmons, Hal Rugg, Doug Jernigan, Lloyd Green, Jimmy Day, Speedy West, Maurice Anderson.

It even includes the Session Time Card.

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Rick Barnhart · Post by **Rick Barnhart** » 4 Aug 2010 5:33 am

Awesome! Thanks for posting that, Jack.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 6 Aug 2010 9:30 am

That was the first time I heard it too. Great group of pickers.

Bryan Daste · Post by **Bryan Daste** » 6 Aug 2010 10:23 am

Wow, cool!

Chuck Hall · Post by **Chuck Hall** » 7 Aug 2010 11:09 am

Is this available thru the Forum??

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 7 Aug 2010 2:22 pm

What is funny is that one of the guys you mentioned, that sent an original pressed record to me, said that although it had a union time card on the cover that he never got paid for the session..

I thoroughly enjoyed the album.

Interesting was that Louis Belsen was THE drummer. There was reportedly a tiff between him and one of the players that got pretty vocal. I'll have to ask for refreshed info the next time I talk to my friend..

EJL

robert kramer · Post by **robert kramer** » 7 Aug 2010 8:11 pm

“Twelve Midnight” is an up tempo blues in the key of F. Emmons takes two choruses. Here is the run at the top of his second chorus. It’s at 2:36 - 2:39 of the YouTube video and played over these chords: I I IV I. I learned this off the "It's the First Time" LP. In those days, I would put my hand on the turntable to slow down the music.

C-6th w/ D on top - no pedals used

5→ (6) means the note is picked at the 5th fret and slid up to the 6th fret. (6) means the note at the 6th fret is not picked.

At the bottom of the first diagram I have indicated the Thumb/Middle crossover fingering as it seems to line up for this pattern of notes.
The second diagram shows the intervals. The #4 gives the run a Lydian sound.