The Bobby Bowman Stomp

Susan Alcorn · Post by **Susan Alcorn** » 30 Mar 2011 8:08 am

http://picosong.com/Vwb/

With admiration and gratitude to Bobby Bowman, Jerry Roller, and Don Burrows.

Roger Kelly · Post by **Roger Kelly** » 30 Mar 2011 10:47 am

Susan, that tune was very enjoyable for me to listen to.
Hope you post more like it.

Jody Sanders · Post by **Jody Sanders** » 30 Mar 2011 10:55 am

Good stomping Susan. Jody.

Hank Ruf · Post by **Hank Ruf** » 30 Mar 2011 11:36 am

Great playing Susan.

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 30 Mar 2011 11:06 pm

Real Nice Susan

Matthew Warman · Post by **Matthew Warman** » 31 Mar 2011 12:27 am

you have a lovely touch to playing steel! A real natural.

Charlie C Harrison · Post by **Charlie C Harrison** » 31 Mar 2011 8:29 am

Susan, very good playing & sound. could you tell us your set-up? Thanks

Susan Alcorn · Post by **Susan Alcorn** » 31 Mar 2011 12:08 pm

Thank you Roger, my friend Jody, Hank, Crowbear, Matthew, and Charlie. I'm glad you liked this song.

Charlie, my E9th setup is pretty simple - the standard A,B, and C pedals that everyone uses, I lower the E's to D# and raise them to F. Also, I lower the second string from D# to C# with a sort of "feel" half-stop at D. That same knee lever lowers the 9th string a half step to C#. I also raise the second string to "E". Basic E9th - nothing fancy.

A note about this song, I wanted to improvise/write a song in one take, so I just made this up as I went along and tried to remember whatever form it was that was coming out. There's a part that sounds a little like "Cajun Fiddle", and when I noticed myself playing that, I thought, "oops, better get out of this fast". This and the other recent songs were recorded one take only - warts and all - in the space of about two hours.

Jerry Roller · Post by **Jerry Roller** » 31 Mar 2011 8:44 pm

Susan, I just stumbled onto this while doing a search for Bobby's email address. You should have told me you were doing this, it is very nice playing and great tone.
Jerry

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 1 Apr 2011 1:15 pm

Susan, I've always enjoyed your playing very much, regardless of the style. Your take on Alban Berg as well as the modern pieces I've heard have been inspiring. I commend you for your love of all music. I feel the same way about it.

Very nice playing, by the way.

Karel van Bezooijen · Post by **Karel van Bezooijen** » 5 Apr 2011 10:55 am

Lovely,
Make's me want my pedalsteel back....

Ricky Thibodeaux · Post by **Ricky Thibodeaux** » 6 Apr 2011 8:37 am

Hey Susan, just curious what are you playing thru to get that great tone.

Susan Alcorn · Post by **Susan Alcorn** » 6 Apr 2011 12:52 pm

Thanks Jerry, Mike (in close-by NJ), Karel (I hope you find a new pedal steel), and Ricky.

Ricky, I'm glad you liked the tone - it was mostly the guitar itself (certainly not me). For this recording I used a 1974 Emmons p/p D-10 going into . . . a Maxon delay pedal, a Lexicon reverb, an Eden WT-550 amplifier, then from the speaker-out of the amp head, I go into a Lexicon 200, a Mytek A/D converter, then to a Digi-002 into my computer into Pro Tools 8 (I bet you can't say that all in one breath).

Ricky Thibodeaux · Post by **Ricky Thibodeaux** » 7 Apr 2011 3:06 am

WOW, Do you have to plug into a nuclear powerhouse with all that equipment, just kidding but it does sound great.