Who is your favorite steeler?

Cody Angel · Post by **Cody Angel** » 14 Apr 2011 6:46 am

I am a new player and need some good influences. I am a Lloyd Maines devotee and of course I love the work of PF and Buddy Emmons. Who else should I be listening to and who is the hottest in your minds? thanks guys!!

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 14 Apr 2011 8:02 am

There are a lot of players who are my favorites-guys like Randle Currie, Dan Dugmore, Sonny Garrish, Pat Severs, Paul Franklin, Bruce Bouton to name a few.

Brett

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 14 Apr 2011 8:04 am

Joaquin Murphey, Buddy Emmons, Lloyd Green, Curley Chalker, Tom Brumley, Doug Jernigan, Mike Johnson, Ralph Mooney, Aubrey Ghent, Mike Smith, Paul Franklin, Steve Palousek, Campbell Bros, Rusty Young, Robert Randolph & many more

John Billings · Post by **John Billings** » 14 Apr 2011 8:05 am

Lloyd Green!

Hap Young · Post by **Hap Young** » 14 Apr 2011 8:16 am

Buck Reed

Bob Vantine · Post by **Bob Vantine** » 14 Apr 2011 8:29 am

Most of my life I've thought the playing & especially the tone of HAL RUGG was what the PSG was all about . BOBBE SEYMOUR has a great selection to listen & learn from , JIM COHEN , also MIKE HEADRICK and my favorite BUCK REID .
Plenty of others with great music to pick from , but these are some of my favorites .

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 14 Apr 2011 8:47 am

All of them!

Jim Snowman Mitchell · Post by **Jim Snowman Mitchell** » 14 Apr 2011 9:05 am

Mike Johnson. the late, great John Hughey, Rusty Rhoades, Wayne Hobbs & Chubby Howard[/b]

Chris Dorch · Post by **Chris Dorch** » 14 Apr 2011 9:18 am

My top favs (in order)...

Ralph Mooney
Lloyd Green
Chris Lawrence
Eric Haywood
JayDee Maness
Lloyd Maines
Robbie Turner

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 14 Apr 2011 9:32 am

Right now I have a fondness for Dicky Overbey...

At other times it comes down to all the usual suspects

Tom Wolverton · Post by **Tom Wolverton** » 14 Apr 2011 10:19 am

I'm with Ray. My current favorite is Dicky Overbey.

Ron Ross · Post by **Ron Ross** » 14 Apr 2011 10:26 am

I would have to say my top 5 are 1..Ricky Price..2. Dickey Overbey..3. JayDee Maness..4.Jay Andrews..5.Mike Headrick...

bruce fischer · Post by **bruce fischer** » 14 Apr 2011 12:36 pm

day
emmons
mooney
green
murphey.....jim, wally & juaquin
overby
steiner
owsley
wever
rugg
newman
hughey
vest
rheinhardt
rey
byrd
scotty
well this would be a start.......

Johnny Cox · Post by **Johnny Cox** » 14 Apr 2011 12:44 pm

Living: Tommy White, Lloyd Green, Weldon Myrick, Buddy Emmons, Robby Turner, Doug Jernigan, Dicky Overby, Reece Anderson, Terry Bethal, Joan Cox, Randy Rienhardt, Sonny Garrish (during the Bill Anderson years)

Deceased: Hal Rugg, Tommy Morrell, Curly Chalker, Pete Drake, Billy Braddy, Buddy Charlton, Speddy West, Jimmy Day, Big Jim Murphy. John Hughy (During the Conway years),
Not necessarily in that order. And you may notice that these are all old school players.

Top ten: Myrick, Rugg, Green, Emmons, Chalker, T. White,Drake, Morrell, Anderson, Charlton.

If I had to pick only one, Tommy White!!!!!!

Note: I also have great admiration for Paul Franklin, Mike Johnson and Steve Hinson who are my generation of players.

Carl Williams · Post by **Carl Williams** » 14 Apr 2011 12:55 pm

Hey Cody,
You've been given the Masters of Pedal Steel for sure but don't let a Mr. Johnny "Dumplin" Cox get under your radar screen!

Johnny has played with some of the greatest country stars ever to grace a stage and to this day, he's playing for one of the greatest, Mr. Gene Watson.

Carl

Stefan Roller · Post by **Stefan Roller** » 14 Apr 2011 1:46 pm

In no particular order: Ben Keith (RIP), Eric Heywood, Paul Brainard, Paul Niehaus, Lloyd Green, Greg Leisz.

Larry Baker · Post by **Larry Baker** » 14 Apr 2011 1:48 pm

Ron Elliott & Joe Wright, David Wright, Scotty Henderson, Buck Grantham, just to name a few

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 14 Apr 2011 2:54 pm

Dave Easley, Doug Livingston (posts here as Earnest Bovine) & Mike Perlowin. They're first and foremost musicians, who get a steel guitar to do what they want it to, as opposed to "steel players" who let it push them around. You'll hear a zillion people playing the "Buddy" liicks and the "Poco licks"; you'll never hear anybody able to copy this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw2b73Yk7Hk

(skip it ahead to 2:35 if you're in that big a hurry)

You can listen to that back to back with the Coltrane and Stan Getz takes on the same tune, and not feel as though the steel is impairing the performance. Yike!

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 14 Apr 2011 3:37 pm

yeah..i hate it when buddy and rusty get pushed around by their nasty steels...

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 14 Apr 2011 4:00 pm

I'm going to go way out on a limb here and suggest Susan Alcorn. You'll either love her work or hate it, but you'll have to agree, she is definitely different.

Some other names that must appear in this thread are Al Vescovo, Joe Goldmark, and David Wright.

Jason Hull · Post by **Jason Hull** » 14 Apr 2011 4:40 pm

Jeff Baxter!

Marc Jenkins · Post by **Marc Jenkins** » 14 Apr 2011 5:42 pm

Lloyd Green, Ben Keith, Greg Leisz.

Brint Hannay · Post by **Brint Hannay** » 14 Apr 2011 7:48 pm

If I had to pick just one: Lloyd Green

Outside of the usual suspects: Big Jim Murphy, Buzz Evans, Greg Leisz, Joaquin Murphy, Vance Terry...

The short list would be steelers I don't like! (I won't go there!)

Brint Hannay · Post by **Brint Hannay** » 14 Apr 2011 8:20 pm

Johnny Cox wrote:Deceased: Hal Rugg, Tommy Morrell, Curly Chalker, Pete Drake, Billy Braddy, Buddy Charlton, Speddy West, Jimmy Day, Big Jim Murphy. John Hughy (During the Conway years), Sonny Garrish......

Charles Davidson · Post by **Charles Davidson** » 14 Apr 2011 8:27 pm

MR. SEYMOUR. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.

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