Country Side of Harmonica Sam- classic country sound in 2020

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 24 Nov 2020 5:37 am

https://www.facebook.com/TheCountryside ... 6302144629

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 24 Nov 2020 5:42 am

Those guys sound GREAT....that is the way it's done right there.
Ricky

David Ball · Post by **David Ball** » 24 Nov 2020 6:58 am

Great one! Swedes.

Looks like a later Sho Bud permanent the steel guy is playing--sure has a good tone.

Dave

Greg Forsyth · Post by **Greg Forsyth** » 24 Nov 2020 9:33 am

Is that a Bigsby electric guitar the guy's playing?

John Macy · Post by **John Macy** » 24 Nov 2020 10:38 am

Love those guys!

Don R Brown · Post by **Don R Brown** » 24 Nov 2020 11:15 am

Geez, how have I not heard of these guys? Just listened to at least a half dozen clips and every one a delight.

Charlie Hansen · Post by **Charlie Hansen** » 24 Nov 2020 12:08 pm

I have a couple of their CDs. I love it.

Jim Pitman · Post by **Jim Pitman** » 24 Nov 2020 5:09 pm

I love it. The singer reminds me of Jim Lauderdale, who reminds me of Floyd Tillman....who remind me of.....

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 25 Nov 2020 5:41 am

These guys are great. A lot of attention to detail beyond the music n the clothing and design elements. I hear a Mooney influence in the steel playing.

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

Bob Carlucci · Post by **Bob Carlucci** » 25 Nov 2020 11:53 am

The steel guy is a classic "flat hander"..
Style right out of 1965.Perfect fit for this band..
Really like his playing a lot- probably because I can understand it pretty well, and when I hear it I think to myself-"hey I can do that".
His wonderful band gives him a LOT of leeway, to play to his stylistic strength.. Most of us would get brow beat, and verbally abused for being.. TOO LOUD!/TOO BUSY! if we played like him in a modern USA country band. Fine classic sounding pedal steel player, with a GREAT gig that is the envy of a lot of us, I am certain... bob

David Ball · Post by **David Ball** » 25 Nov 2020 12:43 pm

Andy Volk wrote:These guys are great. A lot of attention to detail ibeyond the music n the clothing and design elements. I hear a Mooney influence in the steel playing.

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

And he's playing an earlier Madison permanent on that track. I like that older style of playing as well as his taste in guitars!

Dave

Patrick Thornhill · Post by **Patrick Thornhill** » 25 Nov 2020 1:39 pm

Greg Forsyth wrote:Is that a Bigsby electric guitar the guy's playing?

Itâ€™s a replica that Gretsch experimented with in the 90s I believe...,

Patrick Thornhill · Post by **Patrick Thornhill** » 25 Nov 2020 3:45 pm

Oh, I guess it was a lot more recent than I thought...

https://reverb.com/item/36002030-bigsby ... 14-natural

Greg Forsyth · Post by **Greg Forsyth** » 27 Nov 2020 4:33 pm

Well played and very entertaining music. My hats off to the band for producing this video.

Thanks to Andy for posting,
& thanks to Pat for researching the Gretsch-Bigsby prototype being played in the video.

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 27 Nov 2020 8:42 pm

I like the instrumental piece they play at the beginning of this video.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HHYaDI2faPs

J R Rose · Post by **J R Rose** » 28 Nov 2020 9:02 am

WOW! I like this a lot. Very good country music and picking. I think the steel player is playing thru a Princeton Reverb on the clip that Lee posted?? And from Sweden no less. That amazes me! J.R. Rose

Bob Carlucci · Post by **Bob Carlucci** » 28 Nov 2020 12:11 pm

Love the Fender acoustic with the electric headstock... Not sure if its an original, but its still has the "look" of the 60's country bands we loved, to go along with thier very authentic sound... bob

Don R Brown · Post by **Don R Brown** » 28 Nov 2020 7:03 pm

Here's a 40 minute live performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFRg3122cmI

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 29 Nov 2020 1:18 am

Bob Carlucci wrote:Love the Fender acoustic with the electric headstock... Not sure if its an original, but its still has the "look" of the 60's country bands we loved, to go along with thier very authentic sound... bob

I have such a guitar, Bob. Mine is from the late sixties.

Don R Brown · Post by **Don R Brown** » 1 Dec 2020 9:29 pm

Bob Carlucci wrote:The steel guy is a classic "flat hander"..
Style right out of 1965.Perfect fit for this band..
Really like his playing a lot- probably because I can understand it pretty well, and when I hear it I think to myself-"hey I can do that".
His wonderful band gives him a LOT of leeway, to play to his stylistic strength.. Most of us would get brow beat, and verbally abused for being.. TOO LOUD!/TOO BUSY! if we played like him in a modern USA country band. Fine classic sounding pedal steel player, with a GREAT gig that is the envy of a lot of us, I am certain... bob

At the end of that 40-minute video of a live performance I link to above, I find they have a pic of each band member. The steel player is Peter Andersson, and a search shows he has been a member on the forum since 2003. Nice playing, sir!

Jack Hanson · Post by **Jack Hanson** » 2 Dec 2020 5:17 pm

The Country Side of Harmonica Sam sound(s) wonderful. Can't help but wonder what the City Side of Harmonica Sam might sound like.

Charlie Hansen · Post by **Charlie Hansen** » 2 Dec 2020 6:01 pm

Harmonica Sam, as Iâ€™ve been told, is actually a blues artist.

R Crow · Post by **R Crow** » 19 Apr 2021 6:52 pm

Any chance they mugged The Cleverlys for those hats?

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 19 Apr 2021 7:59 pm

I meant to say something when this thread started. Great stuff. I have an old Fingertip that I need to do something with. Got it from Outlaw Pawn across the street from Bobbe Seymour's store right before he passed, it's been sitting in its case since then. I need to get on it one of these days. That sound he's getting on that old Bud is priceless.

Harmonica Sam, as Iâ€™ve been told, is actually a blues artist.

Well yeah, I assume this is the guy, and he definitely does blues too. But even a lot of that straddles rockabilly too.

https://music.apple.com/us/album/rocker ... /704946384

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JARL_Qq4LB4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v83BOXOMCRw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UxpKoGO9MU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79MJiW5bcN4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K55oxbKDmfI

There's a bunch of that stuff out there.

Chris Scruggs · Post by **Chris Scruggs** » 2 May 2021 6:37 pm

Patrick Thornhill wrote:
Greg Forsyth wrote:Is that a Bigsby electric guitar the guy's playing?
Itâ€™s a replica that Gretsch experimented with in the 90s I believe...,

The Bigsby inspired guitar in this clip was built by Nashville steel guitarist and guitar builder Andy Gibson.