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Topic: Songs that rip your heart out when you play them |
Larry Behm
From:
Mt Angel, Or 97362
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 9:38 am |
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For me it is:
Farewell Party
The Blues Man
I Never Go Around Mirrors
Shelly's Winter Love
Sing Me Back Home
I lean over the steel as if I was a blind man looking for the notes trying to pull each note through the eye of a needle. I might look spooky but I love it, pure emotion.
Larry Behm
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'70 D10 Black fatback Emmons PP, Hilton VP, BJS bars, Boss GE-7 for Dobro effect, Zoom MS50G, Stereo Steel amp, Telonics 15” speaker.
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 10:19 am
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'Til I Can Gain Control Again. My ex-wife does the best version of this I have ever heard. I get to play it with her on occasion. Sometimes it brings tears to both of us.
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 55 years and still counting. |
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Dave Hopping
From:
Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 10:47 am
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Mister Bojangles
Against the Wind |
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Larry Hamilton
From:
Amarillo,Tx
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 11:28 am
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When They Ring Those Golden Bells Up Yonder. Kept me going when my wife was dying of pneumoia. She lived. 
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Keep pickin', Larry |
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Jack Harper
From:
Mississippi, USA
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Posted 8 Jun 2012 12:22 pm
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i love your story larry......
makes me more believe in the power of song.
the power of song in praise..........
jack... |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Ray McCarthy
From:
New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2012 2:08 am
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Especially Lloyd Green's version  |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 9 Jun 2012 5:38 am
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"More," by Riz Ortolani and lyrics by Norman Newell. Performed by Vic Dana, Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra and many others. You're deeply in love, the lyrics to this song say it all.
"What's Forever For," written by Rafe Van Hoy and performed by Michael Martin Murphey. If you've ever experienced the heartache of a breakup, this song will tear you to pieces.
"That Old Feeling," by Sammy Fain and Lew Brown. Another song of love gone wrong, and getting ambushed by the pain you thought went away after all the years. Wrong again, naturally.
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My rig: Infinity and Telonics.
Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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Bo Borland
From:
South Jersey -
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Posted 9 Jun 2012 7:05 am
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All My Exes!  |
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Theresa Galbraith
From:
Goodlettsville,Tn. USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2012 7:12 am
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Bo,
Great steel playing on that one!  |
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Richard Sinkler
From:
aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 9 Jun 2012 7:27 am
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Every April, the one that tears me up the most is "All My Taxes".
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 55 years and still counting. |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2012 2:20 pm
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He sang Dixie. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.
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Hard headed, opinionated old geezer. BAMA CHARLIE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC ! |
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Bill Howard
From:
Indiana, USA
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Joerg Hennig
From:
Bavaria, Germany
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Posted 10 Jun 2012 11:51 am
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| Ernest Tubb's "Do What You Do Well" because it always makes me think of my late Dad. |
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Bill McKillop
From:
Glasgow, Scotland
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Posted 10 Jun 2012 4:49 pm
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| Sweet Memories breaks my heart becuase it reminds me of my precious son Drew who died tragically last September. |
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Harold Dye
From:
Cullman, Alabama, USA
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Posted 10 Jun 2012 5:09 pm
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| Just about anything Mickey Newberry wrote and sang. Also George Straits, Just like my Dad, with the Big E on steel. |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 11 Jun 2012 7:56 am
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| not when i play it, but when i listen to buddy play on 'when did you stop lovin' me' from the george strait 'pure country' movie. |
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Walter Stettner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 12 Jun 2012 5:11 am
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"The Deepening Snow", written by the great Harlan Howard....
Kind Regards, Walter
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Henry Matthews
From:
Texarkana, Ark USA
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Posted 12 Jun 2012 8:26 am
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"The Deepening Snow", written by the great Harlan Howard....
Kind Regards, Walter |
Walter, you the nail on the head. If that song don't rip your heart out, then you don't have one. Not only is the music and tune just awesome, so are the words.
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Henry Matthews
D-10 Magnum, 8 &5, dark rose color
D-10 1974 Emmons cut tail, fat back,rosewood, 8&5
Nashville 112 amp, Fishman Loudbox Performer amp, Hilton pedal, Goodrich pedal,BJS bar, Kyser picks, Live steel Strings. No effects, doodads or stomp boxes. |
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 14 Jun 2012 8:05 pm
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There's a video on YouTube of the Time Jumpers doing "Sweet Memories" that just knocks me out every time I see it. Not only is John Hughey absolutely marvelous, and Dawn Sears' vocal out of this world, but everyone on stage is as perfect as they could be.
Every note is by every player is just spot-on, and even more remarkable to me is the restraint by everyone on this wonderful ballad.
If you've ever played a gig with folks that feel they have to fill everywhere because there's a space or just because they can, you'll get what i mean.
This is as good as it gets anywhere, by anyone, at any time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES6dOxN3mEo |
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Chuck Hall
From:
Warner Robins, Ga, USA
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Posted 21 Aug 2012 6:56 pm
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Chiseled in stone. 
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Chuck
MCI D10 8/4 Nashville 400 and a Profex. |
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Dennis Lee
From:
Forest Grove, Oregon, USA
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Posted 22 Aug 2012 6:01 am Rip Away!
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| Broken Down In Tiny Pieces just about finishes me off. |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 22 Aug 2012 7:07 am
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"When your house is not a home", by Bobby Flores.
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Lawyers are done: Emmons SD-10, 3 Dekleys including a D10, NV400, and lots of effects units to cover my clams... |
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Ben Rubright
From:
Punta Gorda, Florida, USA
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Posted 22 Aug 2012 10:47 am
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Dawn Sears singing....John Hughey playing....'Sweet Memories'...........I can't make it half-way thru.
Johnny Bush's 'When it's Your Turn to Fall' with Bobby Flores on both fiddle and steel. I'm dehydrated during the middle break by the fiddle alone...when the steel comes in, I am truly gone.
With me playing?........Bill and Gloria Gaither's 'Because He Lives'....Thank you Erv for sending me your arrangement.
Sunday Morning at TSGA......anything that Buck Grantham and Russ Hicks play or that Debbie Talley sings. My wife is too embarrassed to sit anywhere near me!
Last edited by Ben Rubright on 22 Aug 2012 11:43 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Dave Sichak
From:
California, USA
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Posted 22 Aug 2012 11:34 am
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Thought I'd mention a couple that I enjoy or try to emulate if I play them.
First, a tune called A Lonely Man's Song from the movie Sometimes a Great Notion. The first part of the song is the orchestra, but man, when the steel kicks in - to me - made the song a keeper for me. Charley Pride did "All His Children" for that movie with Paul Newman and Henry Fonda.
Next, Statue of a Fool by Jack Greene. To me, kind of a singer's song that builds up to the end.
Then there's Together Again - every time I try to play that, I always hear the Buck Owens' version in my mind.
Another maudlin country song that got me when I first heard it on a Brother Oswald album - Should I Tell My Wife I'm Dying - vocals by Onie Wheeler in his baritone voice.
And tunes I keep trying to get right because the melodies and arrangements I first heard just 'got me'. Carry Me Back to the Mountains by Oswald. Kentucky by the Blue Sky Boys - and man, I'd love to find the sheet music to that to get the melody right as simple as it seems to be. There's a good version of it by the Osborne Brothers on youtube.
And then Life's Railway to Heaven on the Steel Guitars of the Grand Ole Opry album / CD. That album I played to death.
Finally, I'll Be All Smiles Tonight by Jerry Byrd.
Cheers,
Dave
http://www.hillbilly-music.com
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http://www.hillbilly-music.com |
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