"Louisiana Fairytale" - New video

[Doug Beaumier]

Love this old tune. You may recognize it as the theme song for the TV show "This Old House".

Eadd9 tuning (a very easy retune from C6)

E
B
G#
F#
E
B

A short clip ----> https://www.instagram.com/p/Coa6v2XvJKp/

[Roy Carroll]

Very cool! You are a master at the lap steel. Thanks for posting.

[Doug Beaumier]

Thanks Roy! Much appreciated.

[Gil James]

Thanks for that Doug, made my day! Such a soothing tune.
And played perfectly. Love that tuning.

[Doug Beaumier]

Glad you like it, Gil. The tuning is similar to E9 pedal steel. Strings 1 - 5 are the same as strings 4 - 8 on pedal steel. And string 6 is the same as string 10 on psg.

[Joe Krumel]

Awesome Doug. Great backing music too!

[Doug Beaumier]

Thanks Joe. The backing track is all band-in-a-box. That's what I've been using for these Short form videos. For my long-form videos I use BIAB for bass and drums only, and I add (I play) a few guitar tracks. So those take a little longer to make.

[Lee Baucum]

Doug! I love that song. My wife and I have been listening to it for years now, and we never knew the name of it.

Thanks for posting that.


~Lee

[Doug Beaumier]

Glad you like it, Lee!

[Lee Baucum]

Here is a nice backing track:

https://youtu.be/mUrOAGdgq9I

~Lee

[Steve Cattermole]

Very cool Doug, really in tune with great tone, just nice to listen too. I think you teamed it up with" If I Had You " a while back , and it sounded so good I had to learn it. Thanks for turning me on to your great versions of these great tunes. Don't know why I didn't think of Endless Summer, I'm a surfer. Look forward to your next post. Steve Catt

[Doug Beaumier]

Thanks Steve. It wasn't me who made the video of the two songs "Louisiana Fairytale & If I Had You", but I remember that video and I really enjoyed it.

[Steve Cattermole]

P.S. Why am I dragging around a double ten when you are playing everything I want to hear on a 6 or 8 string lap steel. I'll have to ponder that for a while. Keep up the good work. Catt

[Doug Beaumier]

Why am I dragging around a double ten when you are playing everything I want to hear on a 6 or 8 string lap steel.

FYI: I play a S-10 pedal steel on all of my gigs. The bands I work with expect to hear pedal steel sounds.

[Carl Williams]

Great little ditty Doug…your superb hand/bar work is . Which one of your fine amps did you use?

[Doug Beaumier]

Thank you, Carl. I used a Quilter Tone Block 202, the head only, recorded direct via the Signal Out. And I monitor through a small pair of studio speakers. I've been using that setup for the past couple of years.