Jimmy Day At Atlantic Records 1973

Charles Kurck · Post by **Charles Kurck** » 30 Dec 2020 1:20 pm

Pedal Steel Great Jimmy Day

NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 1973: Pedal steel great Jimmy Day play his pedal steel guitar in a recording session for Willie Nelson
in February 1973 at the Atlantic Records studio in New York City, New York. (Photo by David Gahr/Getty Images)

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Frank Freniere · Post by **Frank Freniere** » 30 Dec 2020 2:23 pm

Great picture!

Cool pants. Or pajamas.

Roger Crawford · Post by **Roger Crawford** » 30 Dec 2020 2:33 pm

Pajamas.

Dave Zirbel · Post by **Dave Zirbel** » 30 Dec 2020 2:42 pm

That is a cool shot...and the album is really great. This must have been for The Troublemaker, which in my opinion has some of the most soulful and heartfelt steel playing on it! Dang near brings me to tears...Thanks for sharing it!

dz

Jack Stanton · Post by **Jack Stanton** » 30 Dec 2020 3:40 pm

Also could have been Shotgun Wilie sessions

Dave Zirbel · Post by **Dave Zirbel** » 30 Dec 2020 5:24 pm

Also could have been Shotgun Wilie sessions

Yeah true...the internet says both were recorded at Atlantic in Feb 1973

Troublemaker was done in two days apparently ðŸ˜³

Dave Zirbel · Post by **Dave Zirbel** » 30 Dec 2020 6:28 pm

Is he playing a permanent or fingertip in that photo?

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 30 Dec 2020 6:48 pm

Cool shot. Sho-Bud right? But what are the graphics on the left end?

Dave Zirbel · Post by **Dave Zirbel** » 30 Dec 2020 6:50 pm

Yes Shobud.

robert kramer · Post by **robert kramer** » 31 Dec 2020 7:56 am

Here's "She Not For You" from these sessions. If you know of a better steel guitar track, please let me know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6trhU23ULq4

Lee Dassow · Post by **Lee Dassow** » 31 Dec 2020 5:00 pm

Say I noticed that the first 3 pedal rods are closer together than the other six. Could that be custom made for him specially, or is that the way Sho-Bud manufactured them.
Tenn.Lee

David Zornes · Post by **David Zornes** » 31 Dec 2020 8:27 pm

Charles I like and appreciate your sideline under your picture and the statement under your post. Good witness.

Skip Edwards · Post by **Skip Edwards** » 31 Dec 2020 9:43 pm

Lee, that's the way they were on Fingertips, and I think maybe also on Permanents.

David Ball · Post by **David Ball** » 1 Jan 2021 4:22 am

My permanents have the narrower spacing on the first three pedals too.

Dave

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 1 Jan 2021 9:13 am

Dave Zirbel wrote:That is a cool shot...and the album is really great. This must have been for The Troublemaker, which in my opinion has some of the most soulful and heartfelt steel playing on it! Dang near brings me to tears...Thanks for sharing it!

dz

I agree about The Troublemaker. The steel playing on it, credited to "James Clayton Day," is absolutely exquisite.

Olli Haavisto · Post by **Olli Haavisto** » 1 Jan 2021 9:29 am

Shotgun Willie came out in `73.
I bought it 3 years later and spent days on end playing along with it with my first steel.
Listened to it today...timeless stuff!

Olli Haavisto · Post by **Olli Haavisto** » 1 Jan 2021 9:37 am

Shotgun Willie came out in `73.
I bought it 3 years later and spent days on end playing along with it with my first steel.
Listened to it today...timeless stuff!

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 1 Jan 2021 6:46 pm

I'll ask again. Can anybody read the graphics on the left end of Jimmy's guitar?...or know what they might say?

Mike Flick · Post by **Mike Flick** » 1 Jan 2021 7:25 pm

Possibly a sho bud logo, a spade, and Jimmy Day on the front?

Mike Flick · Post by **Mike Flick** » 1 Jan 2021 7:36 pm

On closer look it is "Blue Darlin"

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 1 Jan 2021 8:13 pm

Thank you Mike. That makes sense. I couldn't get a decent look at it. So, do you think that's a spade there in the middle?

Mike Flick · Post by **Mike Flick** » 1 Jan 2021 9:19 pm

I read on the forum that he had a spade inlay on one of his guitars so that was more an educated guess. Pretty sure about the Blue Darlin' in script on the key head side though. Looks like a roman numeral III after it.

Greg Milton · Post by **Greg Milton** » 5 Jan 2021 10:27 pm

The original photo has a few beer bottles on the ground around him (Heineken, I believe). Now, that I can really relate to

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