Lap steel blues!!

Jack Francis · Post by **Jack Francis** » 3 Aug 2010 7:03 pm

Kirby Kelley on lap steel!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0m-n3d8u1U

Kirby on slide...Guitar Center..."KING OF THE BLUES!!
..."CHAMPION"!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNrFu_p_ajY

Mark Mansueto · Post by **Mark Mansueto** » 4 Aug 2010 5:52 am

Kirby Kelly can jam the blues! I don't remember ever hearing this guy before but he sounds pretty darn good on both lap steel and bottle neck.

Jack Francis · Post by **Jack Francis** » 4 Aug 2010 12:54 pm

Awesome player...I met him a few years back here in Phoenix...nice guy!
He was playing with Bugs Henderson...he told me that Maurice Anderson was a personal friend and that he was building him a new MSA pedal steel...Maurice later said that he was.
Bet he's tearin' that thing up by now!!

Sasha Kostadinov · Post by **Sasha Kostadinov** » 5 Aug 2010 7:48 am

Thanks for posting the link, Jack. Pure inspiration.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 6 Aug 2010 10:23 am

i dunno...i guess it's ok...but i much preferred listening to the singer's guitar playing, which i thought was great.

the single note sustaining blues stuff is kind of lacking to me. i always am hoping to find a steel tuning that allows more options for some of the guitar chord voicings that make the blues sound like what it is. any ideas?

Don Barnhardt · Post by **Don Barnhardt** » 6 Aug 2010 7:20 pm

Obviously the guy on the Strat was the star of the show but Kirby Kelly is living proof that lap steel goes beyond hillbilly and Hawaiian stuff. I thoroughly enjoyed it.