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Topic: Ray LaMontagne steel? |
Frank Freniere
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The First Coast
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Posted 6 Jun 2014 7:47 am |
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| Is Ray touring with a steel player this summer, e.g., Greg Leisz or Eric Heywood? |
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Barry Blackwood
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 7 Jun 2014 11:17 am
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I was at forumite Joe Goldmark's Amoeba Music in San Francisco last week and picked up Ray's new album but have only had time to listen to about four tracks so far and it is a pretty dramatic departure from the last one where the band featured Greg and Eric. Of what I've listened to this record is sort of New Hampshire woods meets Haight/Ashbury 1967 (speaking of Amoeba's location on Haight Street) and a little bit of Laurel Canyon thrown in, but recorded in Nashville.
So the current touring band apparently has no pedal steel player, but there is a fair amount of it on the CD.
Pedal steel duties on Supernova are handled by Russ Pahl. In looking through the liner booklet he mashes pedals on five of the ten tracks, and like Greg and Eric on the prior CD, Russ is a multi-instrumentalist which these days seems more important then ever to a pedal steel player. He also contributes the following on various tracks:
Baritone electric guitar
Acoustic guitar
12-string acoustic
Electric guitar
TickTack bass
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 9 Jun 2014 7:33 am
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| Thanks, guys. I may go anyway. |
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Chris Walke
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St Charles, IL
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Posted 9 Jun 2014 12:49 pm
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| Yes, he's changed from mainly 70's acoustic singer-songwriter style of God Willing to Supernova's psychedelic rock. Not sure this album's my cuppa tea, but I like seeing an artist try different things. |
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