Player on Don't Make Me Now, by Tammy?

[Rick Abbott]

I was wondering who played the steel intro on Don't Make Me Now, which is the B-side of D-I-V-O-R-C-E.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSXDJspV0NM

Thanks

[Ricky Davis]

Well Billy Sherrill produced D.I.V.O.R.C.E and that was Lloyd Green on that; and Billy Sherrill also Produced that 45 with Don't Make me Now on flip-side; so my guess is Lloyd.(yes it's a guess from that info I listed).
Ricky

[Rick Abbott]

I think that's a pretty reasonable guess, too, Ricky. Sherrill used Pete Drake a lot, but I don't think it sounds like Pete. It sure sounds like Lloyd to me. I looked and looked and could hardly find anything about that song.

[Marco Schouten]

This was recorded in a session before the D-I-V-O-R-C-E session. I think that it could be Sonny Garrish.

[Greg Cutshaw]

Not impressed that the producer didn't put a steel turnaround in the middle of the song.

[Rick Abbott]

This was recorded in a session before the D-I-V-O-R-C-E session. I think that it could be Sonny Garrish.

From what I could tell, Sonny Garrish was unlikely. He was a little later than this recording. The producer was known to use Pete Drake and Lloyd Green at the time. I could be wrong.

[Ricky Davis]

Hey ya'll Lloyd Green just sent me this info:

Ricky,
Just saw and listened to Tammy’s “Don’t Make Me Now”.
I played on the “B” side of “D-I-V-O-R-C-E “ , too.
Billy Sherrill knew he had his #1 with the new sound (E-F) with Tammy on Divorce so I guess he wasn’t as interested in choreographing the B side on which he allowed me flexibility to play a more traditional intro completely unlike the Divorce sound. But the entire intro is composed of an integration of phrases from which I later extracted each part and used on other songs with different artists.
I too wish he had let me also play the solo in the middle. Maybe I would have changed it from the intro??

Cheers,
Lloyd

There ya go; the real deal from the real Steel...LOL.
Ricky

[Rick Abbott]

Dang, dude, that is completely amazing! Thank you, Ricky. And, thank you very much, Lloyd! My buddy, Terry Rouch, has been working on playing that intro and really, really likes it.