Robert Randolph

Bruce Bouton · Post by **Bruce Bouton** » 25 Jul 2001 8:59 pm

Has Robert or Chuck Campbell or any of the Sacred Steel players been invited to play at Scotty's? If so Great. If not , why?
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Dan Tyack · Post by **Dan Tyack** » 25 Jul 2001 10:19 pm

I believe that Chuck is going to be at Scotty's this year to meet all of you guys, but he isn't planning on playing. It would be great if a slot could be found for him on the main stage, but I imagine he will be playing in the Carter booth, for those of you who want to hear him play. And to hear Chuck play solo is a real treat, he's the best I have ever heard at that.

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Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 26 Jul 2001 6:26 pm

Man, I live about 5 miles from Robert Randolph and he's been in NYC alot lately, but I haven't been able to see him. (In NJ 5 miles equals 500 Texas Miles). He played at "The Jammies" Award Show at the Roseland Ballroom last month along with Junior Brown and Del McCoury and all kinds of other diverse people, and got rave reviews. I hope he can come to the PSGA show in Norwalk in November, from the people whom have seen him he sounds like my kind of player.

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HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 26 Jul 2001 6:56 pm

Well, he'll be playing at Irving Plaza (NYC) Aug. 7 & 8 with The North Mississippi All Stars. I've seen this collaboration once before. If you can, catch this show, I know I will.

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 26 Jul 2001 7:00 pm

Thanks Howard, I will check my wife's schedule.

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Ron Castle · Post by **Ron Castle** » 27 Jul 2001 4:36 am

I posted an interesting story re: Robert on
another thread
heres a link

Russ Wever · Post by **Russ Wever** » 28 Jul 2001 2:20 pm

According to this, ya can see RR on TeeVee next month.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 28 Jul 2001 7:23 pm

Now we're getting somewhere! When a steel player is the featured musical guest on Conan O'Brien, that means we're becoming 'mainstream'. Who woulda thought it would have been one of the young sacred steelers to get us there?

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Ron Castle · Post by **Ron Castle** » 29 Jul 2001 2:25 am

"the Word" is being promoted heavily. I've
already seen Robert on a short clip on VH1. must be doin something right

Henry · Post by **Henry** » 29 Jul 2001 3:32 am

His performing YES i can understand that, but if it comes to his '"voca(steel)bulary"
(HA) on the pedalsteelguitar.....i wish him
GOODLUCK .

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 29 Jul 2001 7:00 am

Bruce,
It would be great to hear Scotty contacted these guys to play on the show.
Also, others like Mike Smith, Dan Tyack,David Spires,Randle Currie, Mike Johnson, Wayne Dahl, Sonny Garrish, Stu Basore and of course yourself. Theresa

HowardR · Post by **HowardR** » 29 Jul 2001 7:15 am

Henry, it's not always how many words you can say, but what you say and how you say it.
I believe that is the factor in his rising popularity and acceptance.

Drew Howard · Post by **Drew Howard** » 29 Jul 2001 8:00 am

Thank you Bruce Bouton for starting this thread. IMHO - Robert Randolph is getting more media play for the steel guitar than anyone in recent memory other than Junior Brown. I've talked to him, and he is on a mission. Like it or not, he represents the future of steel guitar and to include him in the ISGC roster would help a show and genre that is in need of stylistic diversity.
Everybody wonders where the new players are, well, here he is. As a new player, he needs the steel guitar community's support.

Drew Howard

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Sage · Post by **Sage** » 29 Jul 2001 8:12 am

Henry, I have heard Robert "quote" many other steel players "verbatum". He can play in the EXACT style of Calvin Cooke, Chuck Campbell, Ted Beard, Darick Campbell, Glenn Lee, Henry Nelson, Lonnie Bennett, and more from his tradition. He can also play at least 85% of what most country players can do, in a country style. When he was demonstrating blocking techniques at his speed picking seminar, he showed the usual way that blocking is done (pick and palm) and was able to play faster with standard technique than most steel players I've seen. He then demonstrated his own self-developed blocking style and proceded to play faster and more cleanly than ANY steel player I've ever heard, except for maybe Chuck Campbell who is also in that rareified place. Robert works on this for hours every day, pushing it till it hurts and then pushing it some more.
More importantly, he is not concerned only with speed. He is very much like (a young) Stevie Ray Vaughn, in that he can go from deeply soulful chording with jazz voicings, into lightning fast riffs and then into rhythm chops and back into long chords, all with flow. The man is eloquent, and his vocabulary looms large.
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