eTown - Who's The Steel Player?

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 6 Feb 2021 7:27 pm

My wife ran across this today.

Jim Lauderdale along with The Waifs performing You Ain't Goin' Nowhere.

Looks like the steel player may be playing a Williams.

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Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 6 Feb 2021 8:09 pm

According to this - https://www.facebook.com/GraceDesignPro ... 1862509772

it's Charlie Rose - https://www.charlierosemusic.com/

Sounds great. There are several other videos from that show.

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 6 Feb 2021 8:44 pm

Thanks, Dave!

Greg Cutshaw · Post by **Greg Cutshaw** » 6 Feb 2021 9:07 pm

Great band dynamics. It's nice to hear all the instruments in the mix without anyone playing over top of anyone else. The steel sounds awesome!

Jim Hoke · Post by **Jim Hoke** » 7 Feb 2021 5:57 am

Lauderdale is great, the band is too. Everybody's got the right idea and plays great (except for that blues harmonica maybe). So then why did nobody bother to LEARN the %($#*@^#*%^@ SONG?? Somebody procured a stage; somebody hired a film crew, somebody did a their job on the sound and lights.
Hard as it is to imagine that ANYBODY in the music business would NOT know every word of "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere", might you think the performers would've bothered to memorize (at least) the verse they were supposed to sing? Instead of backing off the mic to steal a glance at their lyric sheets before every line?? What ELSE do these PERFORMERS have to do that leaves them no time to do their job - repair their roof? translate a foreign novel? Dig a french drain in their basement? It's not like they had to learn a complicated ensemble choreography AND sing a whole Cole Porter song like Fred Astaire or something. I mean come ON....

K Maul · Post by **K Maul** » 7 Feb 2021 7:25 am

Yikes Jim. Donâ€™t sugar coat it! If youâ€™re not used to doing a song (Iâ€™ll give a pass to any musician under 60 who doesnâ€™t know all the words to that song by heart) just to be sure in a nationwide broadcast having the crutch isnâ€™t a bad idea. Even Sinatra and Presidents used a teleprompter.

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 7 Feb 2021 7:50 am

Listening to the interview at the beginning of the video, I get the idea he suggested the song, they did a quick run through, and hit the stage. Almost a jam session.

I think they did great.

Greg Cutshaw wrote:Great band dynamics. It's nice to hear all the instruments in the mix without anyone playing over top of anyone else. The steel sounds awesome!

Agreed!

Jim Hoke · Post by **Jim Hoke** » 7 Feb 2021 9:54 am

Yeah, okay - I do get that they'd all just decided on it and threw it together on the quick. I hadn't had my coffee this morning went I went off on that rant. That's something that's bugged me for a long time, that I've seen in more organized situations. Nice tone on the Williams.

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 7 Feb 2021 11:26 am

Nicely done but even Jim was reading lyrics off his guitar. I felt the blues style "misery whistle" was out of place and a chromatic harmonica would have been better. Also using Mickey Ralphaels' rhythmic style would have been better behind the acoustic lead.
The PSG sounded great , possibly a compressor getting that punchy tone?
Nice that they gave the bass player a solo, giving time for everyone to converse

Jim Hoke · Post by **Jim Hoke** » 7 Feb 2021 2:33 pm

Misery Whistle!! I love it, Bo! And I play it. I also play two woodwind instruments that sax players who are forced to double refer to as the "agony stick" (clarinet) and my favorite, the "gloom tube" (flute). Trombone has the daddy of them all though: (and I'll probably get this not quite right) "The Variable-Length Wind-Driven Tubular Pitch Approximator".

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 7 Feb 2021 7:22 pm

I love Jim Lauderdale, and it seemed a little unorganized, if you look during the song there was a lot of confusion as to who would solo, and at times Jim was looking like he wasn't sure what was going on, but that said I liked and and loved the steel and Jim is great no matter what he does!