Nathan Fleming on Austin city Limits

[Clyde Mattocks]

Just finished watching Nathan Fleming with Charley Crockett on ACL. He was up in the mix and I could hear every lick. What a tour-de-force on tasteful playing on his beautiful Emmons. Great C6 and E9 stuff. He never ran short of appropriate backup. I am a fan. Worth catching again. It will probably repeat tomorrow and early week. First half of the show was Brandi Clark. Good too.

[Andy Vance]

Because I love to hear Nathan play, I found this episode online, in case others want to listen to it and don't have access via cable/TV.

https://www.pbs.org/video/brandy-clark- ... tt-oruxmv/

[Bob Sykes]

Saw it last night and had to watch again. Steel so smooth and tasteful. I have a dumb question though. Can you tell if he has a "standard" E9 setup? It sounds (to me) like he has some low notes that are below B when playing the E9 neck. Perhaps grabbing them from the back neck, or is it just that great fat Emmons tone?

[Ricky Davis]

Yes Warm Emmons tone. Nathan plays standard Emmons set up; ever since 1998 when he took his first lesson with me. Hasn't changed anything; except became beyond belief with Technique and Great musical awareness. Also plays a Sho~bud very early Perm that Harry Jackson just finished up and is beyond awesome looking and playing and sounding pedal Steel...you all will be hearing more from.
Ricky

[Doug Earnest]

I saw that show again a few days ago. I sure like to hear Nathan play!! He seems to have a little different take on things, very tasteful and well played. Keep up the good work Nathan!

[Roger Rettig]

What a fine player he is! Imaginative, and a terrific right-hand!

Crocket is an interesting artist, too.

Thanks for posting that link, Andy!

[Roger Rettig]

Bob:

In the clip Andy posted, I don't think I heard any E9 stuff lower-pitched than standard. Were you speaking of a different performance?

[Bob Sykes]

Hi Roger, No I am referring to the ACL performance in posted link. He's doing a low note "bend" on the last chord of the last two songs that caught my attention. I haven't spent any time to see what key they're playing the song(s) in, so I guess this might just be A pedaling the low B, or could this possibly be the Franklin pedal or some other lower? I don't have that or even know what it is yet.

[Roger Rettig]

Thanks, Bob - I'll listen again.

[Jim Cohen]

When he lived in Philadelphia, I remember him coming to me for lessons. At the first lesson I quickly realized that there wasn't anything I could teach this guy and he just needed to get himself a regular gig to put it all together and smooth it out. Well! Next time I hear of the dude, he had moved to Texas and turned up playing steel for Johnny Bush! Um... yeah, Nathan, that sort of gig; yeah, that's what I meant... LOL!

Great player!

[Bill Rowlett]

Great playing. Props to Kullen Fox too. What a multi player...

Bill

[Tharon Caraway]

Great player! He played for years with Jesse Dayton at the Broken Spoke on Thursday’s in Austin. Definitely has his own style!

[Keith Hilton]

I like it.

[Bill Terry]

Nathan is great! I did a weekend run a while back with singer/songwriter Gus Clark, opening some shows for Charlie Crockett. I'd known Nathan for a while, but hadn't really been around him too much. During that weekend we had a lot of down time to talk steel guitars and such. It was a lot of fun, and on top of being a great player, he's really a cool guy to hang with. I took this photo at one of the shows. We laughed that there probably wasn't another club in the USA on that particular night that had two vintage Emmons P/P guitars on stage at the same time. That's Nathan's wrap in front of my bolt-on.. Good times!