Teea Goans- A must listen steel lick

Brad Weeks · Post by **Brad Weeks** » 10 Dec 2014 9:16 am

Just purchased Teea Goans new album called "Memories To Burn". On this album is "Pick me Up On Your Way Down"...I would love to know who this steel player is and what he is using for equipment. Guys, give a listen to the "turnaround" in this version. He does a lick that is second to none in the instrumental portion. You will know exactly what I'm talking about when you hear it.
You can actually go to Itunes and preview this album and hear what I'm talking about without buying it, but you'll pry want it like I did when I heard this.
Give it a listen and let me know what you think.

Jerry Roller · Post by **Jerry Roller** » 10 Dec 2014 9:35 am

It sound like a circle of "two's".
Jerry

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 10 Dec 2014 10:29 am

You can listen to the song on You Tube ---> Click Here

Dick Wood · Post by **Dick Wood** » 10 Dec 2014 11:19 am

Kinda sounds like Tommy White but then kinda not.

Chubby Howard · Post by **Chubby Howard** » 10 Dec 2014 12:06 pm

Mike Johnson

Bob Hoffnar · Post by **Bob Hoffnar** » 10 Dec 2014 12:07 pm

Sounds like a whole tone scale played on 2 strings with a slide after the first note of the 3 note ascending phrase.

Brad Weeks · Post by **Brad Weeks** » 10 Dec 2014 1:14 pm

Sorta sounds like stereo steel or something like that maybe. Has a real chorus sound. Definate some type of nice electronic.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 10 Dec 2014 1:36 pm

The tone and playing sound like Tommy to me. But I wouldn't doubt it being Mike based on the final lick in the solo. I may have to get this CD. Teea is hot stuff.

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 10 Dec 2014 2:32 pm

I agree on the whole tone scale lick. To me it sounds like he's using a harmonizer tuned to high fifths on the turnaround.

Craig Baker · Post by **Craig Baker** » 10 Dec 2014 2:43 pm

Whoever it is, they have good taste. They're obviously a fan of Weldon Myrick. In fact, it's one of my favorite Weldon breaks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FpKgdreWNI

Merry Christmas all

Craig

Kenny Davis · Post by **Kenny Davis** » 10 Dec 2014 3:25 pm

Pretty tasty stuff. Was the turnaround stacked, or just using delay? It started pretty good for me, but it lost me where everybody thinks it's cool. Just a little too unusual to my ears! Mike Johnson never ceases to amaze me.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 10 Dec 2014 3:51 pm

t agree. good playing , but that lick could be termed 'wrong notes'.

Brint Hannay · Post by **Brint Hannay** » 10 Dec 2014 5:07 pm

Whole-tone scale stuff almost always sounds to me like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. It's a sound musicians can dig for technical reasons, but seems to have no heart. Just my opinion.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 10 Dec 2014 7:42 pm

Rare use of whole tone scale in country music but Craig's right: Weldon used it right there for Charlie Walker on the same tune. So props to Mike J. for bringing that cool idea back. By the time your ears perk up and say "What the heck was that?", it's over and you're comfortable again. LOL.

Craig Baker · Post by **Craig Baker** » 10 Dec 2014 8:30 pm

Thank you Jim. (ps: do you need more Werthers?)

I used it two years ago in the Patsy Cline play. It fit's well in Honky Tonk Angels, but let's go way back to 1963. Leon and Buddy wrote the entire song "Rhodes-Bud Boogie" around that scale. Twenty years ago I heard Leon Rhodes play an instrumental version of San Antonio Rose to fill some time on the Opry one night. Who could know where to place that run so it would fit-in and add to the song, any better than Leon did on that Saturday night? He played it going up the neck and back down again.

I'll bet Weldon liked Rhodes-Bud Boogie.

As Tom Lehrer once said:

"Plagiarize, plagiarize. . . Let no one's work evadeyoureyes"

Craig

Roger Francis · Post by **Roger Francis** » 11 Dec 2014 11:08 am

it says on one album that Leon Rhoads played steel? It said he played guitar and steel. Didnt know he played steel. But i think Mike Johnson is the right answer

Craig Baker · Post by **Craig Baker** » 11 Dec 2014 12:04 pm

Who knows how many instruments Grady Martin may have owned?
Here he is with a double-neck Bigsby backing some singer trying to make it in Nashville.

Wonder who's playing steel in the background. Dickie Harris maybe?

Merry Christmas All

Craig

john buffington · Post by **john buffington** » 11 Dec 2014 12:43 pm

There is a signature lick, beginning at :36 - 38 in the beginning of the song that has Tommy White all over it. As mentioned above, this is a classic Weldon and Leon Rhodes turn around. A definite crowd pleasure for sure. Watching the video of Weldon playing this is second to none.

Roger Francis · Post by **Roger Francis** » 11 Dec 2014 1:23 pm

http://youtu.be/1tFuEAhxRpY

Kenny Davis · Post by **Kenny Davis** » 11 Dec 2014 3:02 pm

OK, I've listened again. To me, it doesn't sound so much like Mike Johnson after all...I'm thinking Paul Franklin.

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 11 Dec 2014 3:22 pm

Nope...I sure don't think it's Paul.

Peter Freiberger · Post by **Peter Freiberger** » 11 Dec 2014 6:52 pm

There's a post on her Facebook page regarding this CD and Mike Johnson is pictured.

Paul Norman · Post by **Paul Norman** » 11 Dec 2014 7:12 pm

There is a similar run on Daryle Singletary's
I never go around mirrors. I think Mike Johnson.

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 12 Dec 2014 11:09 am

Roger Francis wrote:it says on one album that Leon Rhoads played steel? It said he played guitar and steel. Didnt know he played steel.

Neither did Leon!

Roger Francis · Post by **Roger Francis** » 12 Dec 2014 12:23 pm

This one sure sounds like Paul

http://youtu.be/C6GvWm65WGE