Mandrell plays "Slippery Elm"

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 9 Sep 2014 10:04 am

Must have been when she was a late teen-early 20s, and I don't recognize the guitar, but she plays the living hell out of it.

Slippery Elm

Danny Letz · Post by **Danny Letz** » 9 Sep 2014 4:36 pm

Herb, the least she could do would be to look down at the guitar and make it look hard?

Bob Blair · Post by **Bob Blair** » 10 Sep 2014 5:13 am

She sure does!

Drew Howard · Post by **Drew Howard** » 10 Sep 2014 5:53 am

Wow. Thanks for sharing. Amazing.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 10 Sep 2014 7:56 am

I saw a clip of Barbara Mandrell where she went around and played every instrument in the band, what a talent!

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 10 Sep 2014 8:42 am

I saw her play live in 1971. She played SG Rag on steel, smiling the whole time, and played every instrument on the bandstand, sax, drums, guitar, keys, etc.

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 11 Sep 2014 6:02 am

I love the tune and she plays it great.

Believe it or not, it is pretty simple to play and one of the first steel tunes I transcribed on C6.

If anyone wants to learn it, I posted a video on YouTube--the first video I ever made--that demonstrates it. It was an old analog 8mm tape, and the transfer is glitchy as can be, but it still gets the point across.

Dick Wood · Post by **Dick Wood** » 11 Sep 2014 7:03 am

God I wish I looked that good playing steel.

Adrian Wang · Post by **Adrian Wang** » 9 Oct 2014 7:10 am

Why is the steel is extra long.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 9 Oct 2014 7:33 am

The video itself is extra wide for some reason, and everything in the video looks "stretched out". I think the steel is the normal length/width.