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Topic: Latin Steel??? |
Chris Bauer
From:
Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 12 Aug 2003 8:07 pm |
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While having dinner at one of our favorite Mexican joints this evening, there was a medium tempo samba on the sound system with some very cool pedal steel on it. No one in the restaurant could tell me who it was - it was on an unmarked, homemade tape.
The feel was clearly Latin with some interesting changes. The lead instruments were steel and trumpet - male vocal in Spanish. Anyone have a clue what/who it might have been???[This message was edited by Chris Bauer on 12 August 2003 at 09:09 PM.] |
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David Cobb
From:
Chanute, Kansas, USA
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Posted 12 Aug 2003 8:24 pm
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| Wish I knew, sounds very interesting. You might do a search on Robin Henkel at cdbaby.com |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 13 Aug 2003 12:27 am
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I cut on a whole slew of Latin Music several years ago....but I can't tell you who it was as I can't remember or Pronounce it...>and I never got the product....
Did it sound like me playing my Emmons that I used to have??>if so...I sure would like to hear it one day...it was a blast of a session.
Ricky
[This message was edited by Ricky Davis on 13 August 2003 at 01:29 AM.] |
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Don Sowersby
From:
New Braunfels, TX
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Posted 13 Aug 2003 1:38 am
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I traveled with a Tejano group for about 3 years from 1989 - 1991. During that period I recorded several albums with this group/artist (Little Joe & La Familia), as well as several other Tejano groups. We did some very intersting things on these recordings. Randy Reinhard did some recording in San Antonio with a tejano group in the early 90's and Bert Rivera recorded a couple of tracks with Little Joe in the 80's and as Ricky said he has done some also. It sounds like you may have heard some of that stuff.
Don [This message was edited by Don Sowersby on 13 August 2003 at 02:44 AM[This message was edited by Don Sowersby on 13 August 2003 at 02:54 AM.] |
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Carter York
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Austin, TX [Windsor Park]
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Posted 13 Aug 2003 5:32 am
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(a shot in the dark)
it could be Calexico, they feature both a trumpet and a pedal steel, and have some great sounds. Check out 'the Black Light', your description makes me think of a tune they played at a SXSW gig last year called 'Minas De Cobre'...good stuff even if it's not what you heard...
Carter |
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Susan Alcorn (deceased)
From:
Baltimore, MD, USA
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Posted 17 Aug 2003 10:26 am
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| Little Joe -- what a great band he had. I used to see them in Pasadena, Texas in the early 80s playing at some building that Sherwood Cryer owned -- the place was always packed. I especially remember their drummer. |
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Donna Dodd
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Acworth, Georgia, USA
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Posted 17 Aug 2003 11:56 am
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I think you may have died and went to Heaven  I've always imagined mexican food, great steel guitar music and a frozen Margarita in all in one place. And the unmarked tape . . . would go to show that God doesn't boast about his favorites - he just listens and enjoys! |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 17 Aug 2003 11:58 am
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| Lloyd Verde. |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 17 Aug 2003 12:29 pm
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I would love to hear this too.
I am very big on latin music, I played salsa in Paris for a almost a year till I moved south.
The first piece I put on the forum for anyone to hear was an original latin tune.
But I don't think anyone but Crowbear listened to it.[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 17 August 2003 at 01:30 PM.] |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 24 Aug 2003 2:36 pm
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David Donald asked me to post this for him
on Lionel Wendling's "Full Time Job" CD there are some Tunes that have a Latin Feel as well as a nice Reggea version of "Jambalaya"
c'est Toot ! |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 24 Aug 2003 5:04 pm
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Dan Tyack
From:
Olympia, WA USA
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Posted 25 Aug 2003 10:39 am
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I played on a bunch of Mexican pop music in the early 80's: Los Freddys, Los Potros, Los Buchis....
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www.tyack.com
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Bill Fulbright
From:
Atlanta, GA
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Posted 25 Aug 2003 6:01 pm
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Little Joe!!!! GREAT BAND!! Played in Dallas a lot during the 80's & 90's ... I left after that...
When I was working in Venezuela in 2001, I shared a lot of the steel music I was listening to, and they LOVED IT. Especially the Jazzy sounding tunes.
I think there is a great place for steel with Latin music whether Norteano from S.Texas and Northern Mexico to Calexico, to Brazilian... in fact there is some alternative bands in Brazil using lap steel now...
So rhythmic, so harmonically rich... now... there is another music very popular in Cuba and Dominican Republic that Ry Cooder really got interested in producing... it is known as "SON"... some of the proponents of it are Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, Buena Vista Social Club, Los Soneritos del Caribe, Sonera Group, Soneros del Oriente, etc.....
Sounds so fine. Check it out... sounds of the 40's, 50's Latin music combined with contemporary approaches... I fell in love with it when I was working DR last year. |
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