Americana Music Awards- Who is the steeler?

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 16 Nov 2012 9:28 pm

Great job by the utility guy playing steel on the 2012 Americana Music Awards. Played a blond S10 Sho-Bud. Anyone know who he is? Played nice Tele and banjo also.

Pete Finney · Post by **Pete Finney** » 16 Nov 2012 10:02 pm

That's Larry Campbell - He lives in Woodstock, played with Bob Dylan for quite a while and was then Levon Helm's right-hand man for many years; he produced the last two fantastic albums Levon did, Dirt Farmer and Electric Dirt and led the band on the gigs in Woodstock and on the road. Larry's also a good fiddle player and a very nice guy.

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 17 Nov 2012 12:37 am

I've heard him play with Bob Dylan about ten years ago, he played mostly guitar, a few songs on steel too, and to my surprise it was loud in the mix.
He also plays on a record by german singer Marius Müller Westernhagen.

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 17 Nov 2012 2:47 am

Very talented and tasteful individual.

Tim Victor · Post by **Tim Victor** » 25 Nov 2012 6:35 pm

Chain of coincidences... I happened to see Robbie Robertson interviewed on the excellent PBS American Masters biography of David Geffen last week, and that made me want to hear Richard Shindell's cover of The Band's "Acadian Driftwood." Listening, I noticed again Larry Campbell's sweet understated pedal steel playing on the song, then I happened to read this topic.

I couldn't find the song online so I put a copy up on Picosong:
http://picosong.com/3P87

Campbell and Shindell both deserve more attention than they get IMHO.