My short history of steel guitar

[Dean Owen]

As I sat in the audience at last year's HSGA festival I was awed and inspired by the talent and passion that the folks there had for the steel guitar. On the long drive home back to Canada it occurred to me to put together a talk-story on the history of the instrument to help spread the word, so to speak. My live performance has the first three instruments and songs (the pedal steel is a brute to lug around now ). I've shared this story and my love of the instrument at open-mics, jams and a seniors facility. The feed-back has been positive with comments ranging from "I didn't know it came from Hawaii" to "This took be back to the days when my grandmother played her Hawaiian guitar". There is more "talk" in the live talk story than in the video but I hope the point gets across okay. I had a lot of fun doing the research and listened to hours of playing all the way back to the early days of the steel guitar.

Akaka Falls on spanish guitar with a nut raiser..
https://youtu.be/2NYTaB9GXi8

Hula Blues on a resonator...
https://youtu.be/fTk1yKcHHrs

Sand on my Fender D8 Stringmaster (thanks to Greg Cutshaw for the backing track . . . it wasn't mentioned in the video)...
https://youtu.be/PW7ifHlQtis

Bud's bounce on my Sho-Bud...
https://youtu.be/5sUpBM0xWw8

Thank you . . .[/url]

[Joe Krumel]

Dean, That stringmaster D8 sounds like a million bucks.
you are a talented player. thanks for posting.

[Dean Owen]

Thanks for the kind words Joe.

[Jim Mckay]

That was great Dean. Keep the steel guitar message out there. Whether it's pedal, Hawaiian lap steel or acoustic. its all great.

[Peter Funk]

Fantastic playing! Thank you for sharing.

[John Olynyk]

hey where are you now?

[Dean Owen]

hey where are you now?

HI john ... still around, sent you a private message

Dean