On the Opry last night

Reggie Duncan · Post by **Reggie Duncan** » 13 Jun 2004 10:02 am

Jack smith, with Connie Smith, played some of the best pedal steel I have heard in a long time! Class....no doubt about it!
Tone was perfect, to my ears. I wonder what brand he was playing?

Kevin Post · Post by **Kevin Post** » 13 Jun 2004 10:35 am

I was playing slide guitar with Terri Clark last night. She got inducted into the Opry, and we have not stopped partying.

I didn't get to play any steel last night, unfortunately.
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Reggie Duncan · Post by **Reggie Duncan** » 13 Jun 2004 1:27 pm

Kevin, you sounded great on slide. And, tell Terri congratulations on her induction!

Doug Rolfe · Post by **Doug Rolfe** » 13 Jun 2004 2:48 pm

Jenee looked and sounded good too. She harmonizes real well with Terri. She is tops in my book.

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 14 Jun 2004 3:26 am

Congrat's to Terri also!

Billy Dean is back better than ever. What a voice!
I was happy to hear Tommy backing him.
Hoot & Kenny sounded awesome too!

Love that version of "Thank God I'm A Country Boy"!

Mel & Pam a class act, way to go Mr. Sargent!

Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 14 Jun 2004 5:23 am

Looks like I missed a good show. Oh well, thanks to GAC's propensity for reruns I'm sure I'll catch it in a few weeks.

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Kevin Post · Post by **Kevin Post** » 14 Jun 2004 10:06 am

Reggie,

Thanks, I'll tell her.

You're right about Jennee'. She is quite the harmony singer/fiddle player/tambourine beater/dancer. If we could just get her driving the bus. She wanna do it all.
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Doug Seymour · Post by **Doug Seymour** » 15 Jun 2004 2:02 am

I hope the Jeanee you're mentioning is the Jeanee Keener I saw do the Tulsa show in 1997! What a great talent, and I recall hearing she has had some college @ Vanderbuilt (?) by now......what a great future she has. Glad she's doing music! & on the Opry now! Never mind having her drive the bus, she's a musician!, not a bus driver,
unless it was in a pinch maybe!

Tim Sergent · Post by **Tim Sergent** » 15 Jun 2004 8:30 am

Thanks Theresa!

Doing the Opry is always a little unsettling for me. Even after doing it hundreds of times when I was with Ricky Skaggs, I still get a little anxious. I thinks it's because it's such a hurry up and wait thing. You have to be there for camera blocking at about 3:00 or 4:00 and then sit around for 3 or 4 more hours, do a couple of songs and then wait 3 or 4 hours to do your evening spot. Plus, you never have enough time to tune on stage after they intro the artist so you have to tune backstage and then when you go out under the lights and a whole other climate, I find a certain "sharpness" to tuning! Maybe next time I won't even bother with that whole tuning "nonsense"(:

Tim Sergent · Post by **Tim Sergent** » 15 Jun 2004 8:33 am

Thanks Theresa!

Doing the Opry is always a little unsettling for me. Even after doing it hundreds of times when I was with Ricky Skaggs, I still get a little anxious. I thinks it's because it's such a hurry up and wait thing. You have to be there for camera blocking at about 3:00 or 4:00 and then sit around for 3 or 4 more hours, do a couple of songs and then wait 3 or 4 hours to do your evening spot. Plus, you never have enough time to tune on stage after they intro the artist so you have to tune backstage and then when you go out under the lights and a whole other climate, I find a certain "sharpness" to tuning! Maybe next time I won't even bother with that whole tuning "nonsense"

Thanks again for the kind words and say hi to Gregg for me,

Take care,

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Reggie Duncan · Post by **Reggie Duncan** » 15 Jun 2004 8:38 am

Did any of you notice what kind of steel Jack Smith was playing?

Tim Hurst · Post by **Tim Hurst** » 15 Jun 2004 3:41 pm

I saw Connie Smith at the Riverfront Stage in Nashville this past weekend and it looked like Jack Smith was playing a rosewood formica push/pull. The whole band sounded great, as did Connie of course.

Jack Smith · Post by **Jack Smith** » 16 Jun 2004 5:07 am

Hi Reggie,

Thanks for the kind words. That guitar is a mid 70's rosewood push/pull. I took the stock pickups off the E9th and replaced it with Bill Lawrence Humbucking. Certainly the best sounding guitar I've owned. I had a Zum before this and traded it for this guitar. I've missed it so much that I'm getting another Zum next month when I play in Kansas City with Connie.

Reggie Duncan · Post by **Reggie Duncan** » 16 Jun 2004 6:14 am

Well, Jack, I am so glad to hear from you!
You know how I feel about your playing!
Your tone was great, as was your playing.

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 16 Jun 2004 6:21 am

Kevin,
Ask Jenee' that David Wright wants to know if she is still wearing thoses Pee Wee Herman hight hill shoes!!!!

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Jack Smith · Post by **Jack Smith** » 16 Jun 2004 6:30 am

Reggie

Again thanks. I took about 3 to 4 years off and when I say it was under the bed I really mean it. I didn't set the guitar up until Russ Hicks made me get it out to do the "Steel Pickin' On Connie Smith" project. As we all know it's not like riding a bike. After about 3 months it's beginning to feel good again.