Female PSG player

John Boyte · Post by **John Boyte** » 30 Aug 2021 2:00 pm

My friend showed me a video today of Elvin Bishop performing "Fooled Around and Fell In Love" with a female playing pedal steel guitar. He said it was Sheryl Crow. Anyone know?

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 1 Sep 2021 1:48 pm

Well, Sheryl does play some pedal steel, along with piano, bass, and guitar. But since I haven't seen the clip, I don't know if it was her. You can hear a little of Sheryl's pedal steel playing on this cut:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyihQtBes1I

Larry Allen · Post by **Larry Allen** » 10 Sep 2021 4:15 pm

Strange Steel? Video???

Mark Draycott · Post by **Mark Draycott** » 11 Sep 2021 10:07 am

I have seen this video. Maybe this is the one you were thinking of?

https://youtu.be/Z4RmgDa5_dI

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 11 Sep 2021 12:21 pm

Mark Draycott wrote:I have seen this video. Maybe this is the one you were thinking of?

https://youtu.be/Z4RmgDa5_dI

He said it was Elvin Bishop. That's definitely not Elvin. But, that definitely looks like a younger Sheryl Crow. Cool video.

Kevin Mincke · Post by **Kevin Mincke** » 12 Sep 2021 3:37 pm

Guitar doesnâ€™t appear to be plugged in. Fender Maverick?

Tucker Jackson · Post by **Tucker Jackson** » 12 Sep 2021 3:54 pm

That's a lip-synched video... and I don't think it's Sheryl Crow. She doesn't have that gnarly tattoo on her shoulder.

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 12 Sep 2021 4:00 pm

I didn't think it looked like her either.

Tucker Jackson · Post by **Tucker Jackson** » 12 Sep 2021 4:19 pm

There are two other steel players associated with Rod Stewart: Cindy Cashdollar and Robin Ruddy (toured with him on steel in the era of that video, 2007).

As far as I can tell, neither of them has a shoulder tattoo either.

In her own statements, Cindy says she doesn't play pedal steel (of course, the video is lip-synched, so maybe it's her and she's faking playing pedal steel... without her feet on the pedals).

Robin does play PSG... and even looks like the woman in that video, but I don't think it's her. Every picture I've found from that era has her tattoo-free too.

This might be a model brought in for the video shoot. She's using a Shubb bar and no finger picks -- which tracks how a non-PSG player would maybe do it.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 12 Sep 2021 5:26 pm

Right you are. Didn't pay attention to the tat.

As a side note, being from the SF Bay Area, I saw Elvin many times, and never did he have a steel guitar player that I can remember.

Paul Sutherland · Post by **Paul Sutherland** » 12 Sep 2021 6:21 pm

In the track I hear typical A&B pedal movements, but her feet don't seem to be anywhere near the pedals. And actually I don't see any pedals or pedal rods, or volume pedal.

G Strout · Post by **G Strout** » 18 Sep 2021 5:17 am

Maggie Bjorklund???? Don't think it's Robin Ruddy

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 19 Sep 2021 2:53 pm

G Strout wrote:Maggie Bjorklund???? Don't think it's Robin Ruddy

Doesn't really look like Maggie to me. I'm a big Maggie Bjorkland fan. It would be nice to know. Maybe it's just an actress/model hired for the video.

G Strout · Post by **G Strout** » 19 Sep 2021 5:40 pm

Her hand positioning tells me that if she is a model she at least has a handle on picking some steel or dobro.

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