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Topic: Steel mixed hot on "Tell Ole I Ain't Here" |
Mark Hepler
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Virginia, USA
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Posted 28 Jan 2025 7:41 am |
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Who plays pedal steel on "Tell Ole I Ain't Here, He Better Get On Home", Moe Bandy & Joe Stampley's 1979 session?
Billy Sherrill placed it in the mix hotter than hell🔥
Tone sounds like Sonny Garrish, but who knows? |
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Per Berner
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Skovde, Sweden
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Posted 28 Jan 2025 9:06 am
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| Weldon and Buddy are both credited on that album, but this sounds a little bit more like Weldon to me (he played on nearly all of Moe's recordings back then) – though it sounds a bit like a Buddy lick as well towards the end. Great song! |
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Mark Hepler
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Virginia, USA
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Posted 28 Jan 2025 3:40 pm
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Good info, Per. That's one of the loudest steels I've heard on a record, in a good way, the way it ought to be, louder than the vocals.
Close second might be Sneaky's solo on Rondstadt's I Can't Help It If I'm Still in Love With You.
Per, if you don't mind me asking, does steel get noticed much in Sweden? . . . is country well-known? |
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Per Berner
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Skovde, Sweden
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Posted 28 Jan 2025 10:09 pm
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Hi Mark! Most of Moe Bandy's earlier recordings, the ones produced by Ray Baker, feature lots of loud and really great steel playing.
There are quite a lot of country and bluegrass acts in Sweden, some really good ones, but few of them are drawing big crowds – playing country over here is a labor of love in most cases. What we have in abundance is "dance bands", who often play country covers and write country-ish tunes (their style is often called "country with a German beat"). Most of them use pedal steel on their records, some on stage as well. But not many people know what a pedal steel is. A wild guess would be that there are significantly fewer than 500 steel players over here, and sadly only a handful making a good living out of it.
Here's Berra Karlsson on steel with Cina Samuelsson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvtMPSxbixY
Fiddler Thomas Haglund's band, Olle Westerlund on steel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yox07sQtdaM
Mats Rådberg – our only country star with real commercial success. Mats Rosén on steel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpoGeYhkijA
Janne LIndgren (1944-2013) played steel on many thousands of Swedish sessions, an old clip from 1975:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AiGJB-Mt4g |
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Steve Hinson
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Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2025 6:05 am ...well...
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It's Emmons...
...he"signed it"several times, beginning with the intro...
SH |
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Mark Hepler
From:
Virginia, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2025 7:16 am
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| Thanks, Steve. |
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Mark Hepler
From:
Virginia, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2025 8:00 am Sweden, the next Nashville?
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Per, Great tracks & steel pickers all--no slouches there!
Sweden's quality trumps quantity . . . beats the heck out of lots of U.S. alt / neo-trad / Americana stuff. (Not that it's a competition, but stateside Kudos.)
Thanks for sharing. |
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Don R Brown
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Rochester, New York, USA
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Tommy Detamore
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Floresville, Texas
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