| how many forum members are familiar with jim and jesse and the louvin bros |
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94% |
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| do you mean the everly bros? |
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0% |
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| i liked the smothers bros |
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5% |
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Topic: who played steel on jim and jesse's...... |
chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 10 Sep 2013 4:21 pm |
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great record, 'jim and jesse sing the louvin bros.'?
neat steel and great songs and singing. i think i asked who the steel player was about 10 yrs ago but forgot. |
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Jeff Garden
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Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA
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Greg Cutshaw
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Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 10 Sep 2013 5:22 pm
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Jim and Jesse also had a straight country album entitled "My Kind Of Country". For a bit steel player Dale Wagoner (sp?) toured with them.
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Fred Rushing
From:
Odin, IL, USA
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Posted 10 Sep 2013 5:41 pm My Kind Of Country
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Greg
The steel work on My Kind Of Country was done by Jeff Newman.
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Bill Fisher
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 10 Sep 2013 5:52 pm
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I would like to know who played the dobro for Jim and Jesse. The dobro I'm referring to was fitted with a 5-string neck, and played like a 5 string banjo. Sounded great. I can't get a response from Jesse, or his wife, about this from their web-site, so I hope someone here knows.
Many thanks.
Bill |
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Steve Hinson
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Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 10 Sep 2013 6:44 pm
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I would like to know who played the dobro for Jim and Jesse. The dobro I'm referring to was fitted with a 5-string neck, and played like a 5 string banjo. Sounded great. I can't get a response from Jesse, or his wife, about this from their web-site, so I hope someone here knows.
Many thanks.
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Bill,Allen Shelton was the five-string dobro man...a hoss if there ever was one. |
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Bill Fisher
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Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 10 Sep 2013 9:06 pm
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Thank you, Steve. I appreciate the information. Do you have any idea who made the dobro/banjo for him? It sounds too good to be one of the run of the mill Gibson ready made.
Thanks again.
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Craig Baker
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Eatonton, Georgia, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 10 Sep 2013 10:10 pm
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Saw Jim & Jesse put on an excellent performance in Lancaster County PA back around 1971. They had a "killer" steel player with them on that cold winter night, and it was all they could do to keep up with him on the fast numbers. . .
Doug Jernigan, of course !!!
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Alvin Blaine
From:
Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 10 Sep 2013 11:50 pm
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Thank you, Steve. I appreciate the information. Do you have any idea who made the dobro/banjo for him? It sounds too good to be one of the run of the mill Gibson ready made.
Thanks again.
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Gibson didn't take over Dobro till the '90s and Allen Shelton was playing his all through the '60s & '70s.
I think his was made by Semie Moseley (Mosrite Guitars), when he owned the Dobro name.
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Mike Cass
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Posted 11 Sep 2013 12:14 am
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The model Mr. Shelton is pictured with above was called "the Hootenany". The Mosrite instrument above featured the National-style single cone(or style C resonator as their catalouge called it)which is a non-spider or "biscuit" bridge resonator.
5 string dobro was also the featured instrument on the Glen Campbell hit "Gentle On My Mind" which, as the story goes featured John Hartford doing "Dojo" duties on the Mosrite Hootenany he borrowed from Bobby Thompson(another Hoss), which was for sale several years ago.
Gold Tone makes one that's not too bad, but its no Mosrite. OMI/Dobro also made one in the late 60's which was banjo shaped and featured the spider cone resonator, and later they made one similar to the Mosrite w/style C cone which would suffice. Anyone out there who has the real deal like Allen's Id be glad to offer decent $$ for it.
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 11 Sep 2013 2:34 am
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I was stationed at Keesler AFB (Biloxi, Ms) and used to watch the Jim and Jesse show on a Pensacola, FL TV station (I think channel 2 or 3). It came on at 6PM Saturday nights.
On occasion when Jim and Jesse were on the road or at the Opry, a local band would fill in. They had a young kid on pedal steel - Doug Jernigan.
In the early 70's I worked at Little Roy Wiggins' "Music City" music store with Bob Browning. Bob was the bass player with Jim and Jesse for a while and at the same time Doug Jernigan was with the band.
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David Nugent
From:
Gum Spring, Va.
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Posted 11 Sep 2013 4:56 am
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| If I am not mistaken, Doug was also recording with the Osborne Bros. during that same period. Also remember around that time that J.D. Crowe had a previously recorded album featuring the Rice bros. (Tony and Larry)remastered, replacing most of the mandolin solos with steel guitar. No credit given on cover, but may have been either Doug or Hal Rugg. |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 11 Sep 2013 6:06 am
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Hal Rugg did most, if not all, the 60s and 70s Osborne stuff.
Jernigan did the Crowe stuff, I believe the two are friends.
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 11 Sep 2013 2:40 pm Re: My Kind Of Country
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Greg
The steel work on My Kind Of Country was done by Jeff Newman.
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The "My Kind Of Country" record featured their version of the Buck Owens song "Under Your Spell Again". I remember hearing Jim & Jesse doing the song live on the Opry on TNN in June of 2001, right after Chet Atkins died. Tommy White was playing his blue Derby D-10 steel with them on that particular show. This was before the "My Kind Of Country record came out or was getting ready to come out |
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Greg Cutshaw
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Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 11 Sep 2013 3:00 pm
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The actual album title was "Our Kind Of Country" and here's Under Your Spell Again:
Hear It!
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scott murray
From:
Asheville, NC
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Posted 12 Sep 2013 8:06 pm
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thanks Greg
I love hearing pedal steel in a bluegrass setting.
let's not forget Jim & Jesse's 'Diesel On My Tail' album which also features a ton of steel. also played by Doug i do believe...
has anyone transferred any of these albums to mp3? i've got the 'Diesel' album in my iTunes. would love to have these other Jim & Jesse albums (and JD Crowe)
i have a lot of the Osbornes stuff already.
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Pete Finney
From:
Nashville Tn.
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Posted 13 Sep 2013 7:54 am
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I'm pretty sure that it's Lloyd Green on the "Diesel on my Tail" album and some of the other late-60s Jim and Jesse records on Epic.
I'm also pretty sure that it's Bobby Thompson playing the great 5-string dobro (or resonator-banjo, or whatever you want to call it) parts on that particular album. |
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Bob Knight
From:
Bowling Green KY
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Rich Sullivan
From:
Nelson, NH 03457
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Scott Shipley
From:
The Ozark Mountains
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Posted 14 Sep 2013 3:34 pm
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The five string dobro that Allen Shelton recorded with was not the newer model, it was one of the original ones from the 30's. He toured with the newer one. And a super classy guy.
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Daniel McKee
From:
Corinth Mississippi
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Posted 14 Sep 2013 7:03 pm
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| I like Jim and Jesse. They had some good songs. I enjoy hearing Jesse on the opry now. Not a lot of steel if any at all on the early records but still good. how long did they have a tv show? |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 15 Sep 2013 2:30 am
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| I don't know how long they had the TV show on the Pensacola station. I came across it one Saturday evening and then started watching it every Saturday when I could. This was probably 1960. It was a live show, as when they were gone a local band (with Doug Jernigan) would fill in. |
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Don Drummer
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2013 9:52 am
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| I had the Jim and Jesse record that had "Snowbird" on it and I think Doug Jernigan was the Steel Player. |
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scott murray
From:
Asheville, NC
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Posted 15 Sep 2013 12:13 pm
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well no wonder Doug sounded so much like Lloyd on the Diesel album! 
these Jim & Jesse albums are not easy to find. if any of you guys have made mp3s of any of it, I'd sure love to hear em. if so, let's do a trade. i've transferred a lot of my steel-heavy vinyl to digital files
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Mike Cass
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Posted 16 Sep 2013 7:06 am
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Scott Shipley,
Allen Shelton used a pre-war 5 string dobro on those recordings? That's a new one on me. Ive never seen a 5 string dobro offered in any of the pre-war Dobro or Regal catalouges, a couple of tenor models but no 5 string. Ive long suspected that, owing to the popularity of 5 string banjo at that time that Dobro/Regal might have made some but Ive never seen/heard of one. Might you have a picture of that particular pre-war instrument he played which you could share with us? Id love to see one.
thanks.
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