Calvin Walley wrote:if your over 40 think about the sound that made you want to play the steel
i doubt that it was some hot lick being played in a rock band or such .
i am willing to bet it was a crying steel playing some old honky tonk song
well perhaps, but me, like many here ,backed up into country music from the likes of West Coast Country Rock bands who were not playing Merle or Buck tunes. Poco was playing..well..Poco .
So after I bought my first Steel ( early 70's) I picked up a few records in NVille,Loyd, Buddy and Curly Chalker ... and the influence began...it was like an explosion in my musical brain !
I didn't even start to listen to straight ahead country music ( traditional) until a year or so after I was learning to play.
By the way, Hank Sr is about as Honky Tonk as any human could ever be.If I recall, Don Helms was playing a ....
oh never mind whats the point....
Bob, great to see you in that photo with that 64 ! I'm jealous, I only have an 81 !