What's your favorite PSG phrase/riff/fill?

[Dave Hopping]

BE's intro and solo on Judy Collins'"Someday Soon".Some tasty James Burton,too!

[Dan Robinson]

Gary Carter has outstanding solo pieces which, while not fills in a vocal realm, merit study. The Lighthouse Tale
He's not the riffs or fills, he is the vocal ...

yep, that and Gary Carter's version of the Billy Joel song And So It Goes,

everything Jay Dee Maness does with Desert Rose Band

but the one that still gets to me deeply every time is Tom Brumley's In Time.

[Dave Grothusen]

There are many great solos but one that I always liked was from Eddie Rabbit's "On Second Thought".

[Jerry Kippola]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9QIpSg6E_k

Hard to hear Tiny's solo on this at 3;15, but it's great playin---

[Joachim Kettner]

...and sorry to say overplaying by the guitar player!

[Richard Sinkler]

Carl Smith's "Good Deal Lucille." The C6th break is really cool. I can't remember who did it but it makes my adrenaline move.

That is some very nice C6 work on “Good Deal”—it sounds like Buddy Emmons to me. Anybody know for sure? (Calling Robert Kramer…)

Speaking of Buddy, here’s the Big E playing some great fills behind Don Rich & The Buckaroos’ “Guitar Picking Man”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_i1awPKXlU
I’m pretty certain that Don and the boys are lip-synching the song on that “Hee-Haw” clip; it sounds exactly like the cut on the Buckaroos’ Capitol LP “Boot Hill” that featured Mr. Emmons on about half of the cuts, including “Cajun Steel”.

-Dave

I thought someone told me, or I read that Chalker did the playing on "Good Deal Lucille", as well as, "I Love You Because", by Carl Smith. It would be interesting to know for sure. It very well could have been Buddy.

[steve takacs]

Too many great intros, etc.but I have to go with David Graves choice of Buddy Emmon's intro on NIGHT LIFE. Besides sounding jazzily sweet, I can actually play it....well not like Buddy, of course.

That section also in NIGHT LIFE Robert Kramer has tabbed so well on
page 3, is also indicative of of Buddy's ability to play the right notes with feeling. Thanks, Robert. stevet

[Brett Day]

Sonny Garrish's opening steel part to Chalee Tennison's "Just Because She Lives There" is another favorite. Also his solo on Kenny Chesney's "She's Got It All" comes to mind and then there's the steel part he does on the Judds' song "Young Love" after the first chorus-it repeats itself before the song ends

[Thiel Hatt]

I sure like Jerry Byrd's turn around on Ferlin Huskey's "Next to Jimmy I come first".

[Frank Freniere]

Carl Smith's "Good Deal Lucille." The C6th break is really cool. I can't remember who did it but it makes my adrenaline move.

That is some very nice C6 work on “Good Deal”—it sounds like Buddy Emmons to me. Anybody know for sure? (Calling Robert Kramer…)

Speaking of Buddy, here’s the Big E playing some great fills behind Don Rich & The Buckaroos’ “Guitar Picking Man”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_i1awPKXlU
I’m pretty certain that Don and the boys are lip-synching the song on that “Hee-Haw” clip; it sounds exactly like the cut on the Buckaroos’ Capitol LP “Boot Hill” that featured Mr. Emmons on about half of the cuts, including “Cajun Steel”.

-Dave

I thought someone told me, or I read that Chalker did the playing on "Good Deal Lucille", as well as, "I Love You Because", by Carl Smith. It would be interesting to know for sure. It very well could have been Buddy.

Here's Curly's solo on "Good Deal Lucille."

[Frank Freniere]

I sure like Jerry Byrd's turn around on Ferlin Huskey's "Next to Jimmy I come first".

I like the solo, too.

[Len Amaral]

The intro to Panama Red by NRPS

[Jim Anderson]

Bobby Black with Commander Cody "Seeds and Stems" on the "Live From Deep In The Heart Of Texas". Love the intro and turnaround.

[Chris Sattler]

"King of broken hearts" solo George Strait. In fact the whole album "pure Country". Every song is just well sung, played and produced.

Steel by Buddy Emmons of course.

(footnote: my computer didn't like the word Emmons and wanted to change it to Demons)