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Topic: Dale Watson steel player on Austin city limits |
Willie Sims
From:
PADUCAH, KY, USA
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Posted 9 Feb 2014 1:08 pm |
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Any one watch the Dale Watson, show on Austin city limits Saturday night? Anyone know who the steel player was? He had a very unusual style of playjng, but was really good. Anyone know his name.
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Bob Watson
From:
Champaign, Illinois, U.S.
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Posted 9 Feb 2014 2:35 pm
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| Don Pawlak plays Pedal Steel for Dale Watson. He always sounds great on his old Sho Bud Super Pro. I think he's playin' through a Webb amp. I wish I would have caught this, I'll have to see if I can find it in the Austin City Limit archives. |
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Skip Edwards
From:
LA,CA
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Posted 9 Feb 2014 4:42 pm
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| Don was using a one of those newer Twin's with a 15. |
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Joe Casey
From:
Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 10 Feb 2014 6:47 am
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| Dale who is doing a lot of western Swing now and why not also was using Jason Roberts on Fiddle who also plays for Ray Benson and Sleep at the Wheel. |
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Ben Lawson
From:
Brooksville Florida
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Posted 10 Feb 2014 7:43 am
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Joe do you know where Jason is from? I think there was a Jason in Orlando when I worked at Church St. Sta.
I saw him once in Pa. with the Wheel but I didn't get a chance to talk to him. Just wondering if its the same guy. |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 10 Feb 2014 8:13 am
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| Ben Lawson wrote: |
Joe do you know where Jason is from? I think there was a Jason in Orlando when I worked at Church St. Sta.
I saw him once in Pa. with the Wheel but I didn't get a chance to talk to him. Just wondering if its the same guy. |
Jason Roberts is a Central Texas native, and Johnny Gimble is his great-uncle.
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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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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 10 Feb 2014 9:38 am
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Ben,
Wasn't there a tv show, on TNN, from Church Street Station? |
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Larry Schoppe
From:
Lake Jackson, Texas, USA
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Posted 10 Feb 2014 10:35 am
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| Jason Roberts is leaving Asleep at the Wheel at the end of February to start his own band. |
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Joe Casey
From:
Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 10 Feb 2014 11:34 am
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| I like the "Wheel" with him in it but who can fault a guy with his talent to move on and do his own thing. Ray will find a replacement,he always does. |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 11 Feb 2014 8:57 pm
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Ray has a bunch of solo projects going, as well as other local business interests. I was always assuming Jason would take over leadership of the Wheel as the start of his own career, so I was somewhat surprised when I heard last month that he was forming his own band. Elizabeth McQueen is also departing soon, if she hasn't already. So the face of the group is changing.
Just to note that Ray Benson, a "nice" Jewish boy from Philadelphia  , has kept a successful western swing band continuously working full-time, recording, and winning awards longer than Bob Wills, Johnnie Lee Wills, Tex Williams, Spade Cooley, Leon McAuliffe, or anyone else you can name. Amazing. You go, Ray!! 
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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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Ray Harrison
From:
Tucson, Arizona, USA (deceased)
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Posted 11 Feb 2014 9:17 pm
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I had the opportunity to work with Jason last Wed, 5 Feb in AZ for a video and he is a class individual. Great player and singer. It was a lot of fun.
Class guy.
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Ray Harrison
Bass/sing/Love PSG
77 Stingray/Kiesel 5 string bass
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