awwh nawwh, another hammond B-3

[Jack Harper]

here I am checking the forum and good morning America sez', now welcome this new country hit, awwh nawwh and all these god awful guitars and a Hammond B-3 come glaring on tv, this kid is singin' lyrics that I can't understand thru the noise as I turn around and in all that mix or un-mix is a kid jumping around in his seat, sittin' behind a pedal steel. looked like msa or gfi.
guess that's why they called it country.
the show was goin off the air so I didn't hear it all. awwh nawwh!
but, I seen enuff....awwh nawwh........

country jack....

[Bill McCloskey]

Are you talking about Sheryl Crow?

[Jack Harper]

no, not miss crow.
this was a young guy. chris somebody I think.
I think he has had a couple of chart songs and one I recall was tolerable, but, not my kind of country.
but with a non-descript voice, too many guitars playing too loud with no melody and a Hammond B-3.

country.....
i'm not knockin' the B-3 players they all have the talent. the instrument is not or a country song and should not take the place of the fiddle. how and why steel twin with him?

[Leslie Ehrlich]

The neatest country song I ever heard with a Hammond organ in it is Thomas Wade's "Zero To Sixty" (c. 1997). The song also has fiddle and PSG in it.

[Bill McCloskey]

Here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mECRCxtTUHs

Didn't see a Hammond B3 in the video though.

[Doug Palmer]

I think it was a Franklin Guitar. I couldn't hear enough steel in the mix to where it would make a difference what brand he played. The B-3 sound was from a keyboard with drawbars to simulate a Hammond. I don't care for that song or the arrangement, but there is a place for organ in country music. I use a Leslie speaker or Boss simulator often. It fits quite well. Hank Williams used an accordian because they couldn't carry an organ around. They even called it a poor man's organ. 'Easy Lovin' also had a prominent organ sound. Recently George Strait used an organ in 'Here for the good times'. I get what you are saying about this song though, it's not country.

[Richard Sinkler]

I like Chris Young, but this song sucks. I could barely hear the organ. I agree that the organ has a place in country music too.

[Jack Harper]

i don't think i'm actually complainin' about the organ as much as i am the call that makes this format country. i know that the studio mix and a tv mix are nowhere near what you hear on radio, but, i've flipped the channel everytime this song has come on. i don't play steel, but, i do know the difference that it makes in a song,
especially when there is as much extra noise going on with those guitars.
the organ sound made the hit out of "i can help". that song was an accident on a hundred and fifty dollar keyboard, yet every word and every instrument had clarity. unusual in todays country market.

country............

[Clete Ritta]

Typical rock song with twang they call country nowadays. I thought it was a guitar solo, but its actually the pedal steeler playing those unison bends with distortion. Sounds exactly like what a lead guitarist would play on a solo. Used to be the guitarist would try to sound like a pedal steel. Well...at least the pedal steel makes it look like country music.

[Brett Day]

no, not miss crow.
this was a young guy. chris somebody I think.
I think he has had a couple of chart songs and one I recall was tolerable, but, not my kind of country.
but with a non-descript voice, too many guitars playing too loud with no melody and a Hammond B-3.

country.....
i'm not knockin' the B-3 players they all have the talent. the instrument is not or a country song and should not take the place of the fiddle. how and why steel twin with him?

Chris Young. Kyle Everson on steel. He's playing a Franklin

[Donny Hinson]

To most of us older guys, this sounds like what Buck Owens must have sounded like to our parents (who preferred Jim Reeves and Eddy Arnold)

What I noticed most was how the singer's twangy vocal inflections sounded strangely like a distorted wah pedal. I couldn't make out most of the words, but it sounded kinda like "Wow-wow, wicka-wicka-wow-wow"

[Joachim Kettner]

How often did I hear a recording, where I wished they put a steel down. Mostly on ballads when the singer starts with only a sparse instrumentation in the first verse. In the second verse, when they start to embellish, to my disapointment there's a string quartett, a horn section , harmonium or as mentioned in the topic title some kind of organ. A tastefuly played steel could accomplish this too.
But this is only the opinion of a steel lover.

[Phillip Broste]

Look at it this way... I think it is too bad that rock artists feel like they have to sell themselves as country!



I think blurred lines are fun. Rock, country, who cares what we call it anymore? The pedal steel is a great rock instrument! It's all just americana to me.

This is too polished and safe for my tastes, though. Too corporate. Give me some DBT or Son Volt any day over this.

[Mark van Allen]

Ok... no "Hammond" anywhere, in fact I would think keyboard players would have the most to complain about 'buried instruments" in this video. Are you talking about the crunchy rhythm guitar sound?
What is it that you guys are complaining about here? That a morning TV appearance starts with, and prominently features, footage of the steel player? That he plays the solo in a style you don't personally care for? That the music doesn't sound like 1975?
Bear with me for a second... I'm seeing a band presenting itself on network television, featuring a steel guitar, which takes a prominent place in the arrangement and presentation.
The style might not be what you prefer, but isn't this exactly what everyone's been complaining about not seeing in modern music?
Am I missing something?

[HowardR]

They even called it a poor man's organ.

I'll just assume that this is the guy in the band who didn't get the girls.......