Dicky Overbey

[Liam Sullins]

I had just found out about Dicky a few weeks ago and I cannot get enough of him. The tone he has is to die for.

I know he played with Faron Young, Johnny Bush, and Amber Digby. I've seen him play an old Emmons and LDG and that's it. What's the trick to good tone like that? I find it hard to get a tone I like with my Emmons P/P.

[Joe Krumel]

Dicky Overbey was such a stylist and tone monster for sure. I certainly have no answers on how to get tone like that,way above my pay grade.
I think players like Dicky might sound a little different on certain guitars but his style,soul, and hands always come through no matter the brand.
You sure have good taste in steel players! Hope you find that tone you are searching for. JK.

[Roger Rettig]

Being a 'foreigner', I first heard about Dicky Overbey from his work with Ronnie Milsap during Milsap's prime years when he was never out of the charts.

His earlier live album ('70s?) really features Dicky to great effect. The icing on the cake for me, though, was in 1974-ish when I went to the London Palladium to see Glen Campbell. The support act? Ronnie Milsap! He came on stage with a four-piece band (steel, guitar, bass, drums) and blew everyone away. Milsap was virtually unknown in the UK (certainly to me) at that time so to say that the 'support act' almost stole the show is an understatement. Glen was tremendous, of course, but he did have six singers, a rhythm-section with Carl Jackson, and a full orchestra. Even well into Glen's performance, you simply couldn't forget the great Ronnie Milsap.

I had only just bought my first steel at that time so seeing Dickey Overbey that night was by way of being a baptism-of-fire for me!

[Olaf van Roggen]

"Amber Digby on Dickey Overbey article. ... mber+digby

An earlier topic with an interesting article about Dickey Overbey from a couple of years ago.