Mooney - I'll Go Back To Her

Jeff Hyman · Post by **Jeff Hyman** » 28 Mar 2005 11:11 pm

RCA recently released a CD titled "Are You Ready For The Country". It has a song named "I'll go back to her (where I'm wanted)" which has one of Mooneys finest solos. The CD is hard to find... so if you see it you may want to grab it.

Jeff Hyman

Paul Norman · Post by **Paul Norman** » 29 Mar 2005 6:16 pm

Is this a Waylon Jennings album or an
instrumental by Mooney?

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Howard Tate · Post by **Howard Tate** » 30 Mar 2005 4:34 am

I've heard it by Waylon. Great song, great steel.

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Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 30 Mar 2005 5:01 am

That's a great cut by Waylon with RM on steel. I wonder who wrote the song though. The melody is the exact same as an old Wynn Stewart tune called "Donna on my Mind" only slower.....JH in Va.

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Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 30 Mar 2005 5:17 am

This is one of them tunes I play in the attic studio, but crank up the volume so's the neighbors up the street can enjoy it too. Had the LP for years and this track was pretty well worn down to the other side. Finally got the CD several months ago (it's on a "double album" CD). Never tire of hearing one of RM's finest pieces. Have tried for a long time to figure it out.

Jeff Hyman · Post by **Jeff Hyman** » 30 Mar 2005 10:08 pm

Found it on eBay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=307&item=4714008145&rd=1#DESCDATA

Donna On My Mind sounded like Rainy Day Woman... not I'll go back to her.

jim milewski · Post by **jim milewski** » 31 Mar 2005 4:29 am

I'll Go Back To Her is a great song!! Mooney at his best!

Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 31 Mar 2005 4:40 am

Wrong Jeff, DOMM doesn't sound anything like Rainy Day Woman, the only thing similar are the chord changes. The melody line to "Donna" is almost exact to I'll Go Back to Her.....JH in Va.

John Parker · Post by **John Parker** » 31 Mar 2005 9:53 am

Waylon wrote "I'll Go Back to Her". I've got it by Dwight Yoakum on his "Last Chance for a Thousand Years" CD. Don't know who played steel on Dwight's cut but it is excellent.

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Kevin Mincke · Post by **Kevin Mincke** » 1 Apr 2005 1:05 am

Gary Morse did Dwight's version. Gary had tickets for my wife & I Deb, backstage at the show he did some years back at Mystic Lake.

Brent LaBeau · Post by **Brent LaBeau** » 1 Apr 2005 1:06 pm

A little trivia, FWIW.
"Are You Ready For The Country"
Recorded by Waylon Jennings.
Written by Neil Young.
Who'da thunk it?

Rev.LaBeau

Joe Yednasty · Post by **Joe Yednasty** » 1 Apr 2005 4:28 pm

Ralph Mooney plays "I'll Go Back To Her" so good that it makes me wanna go back to her.........and I don't even know who she is. That is my all-time favorite steel guitar lick/solo by my favorite steel guitar player and it's great to know that others agree.

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Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 1 Apr 2005 7:21 pm

Well hell... Here it is. Forgot where I got it.

Can't beat Waylon and Mooney. No doubt.

EJL

Ron Whitworth · Post by **Ron Whitworth** » 1 Apr 2005 9:16 pm

Thanks for the clip Eric..Man that Mr Moon
can sure pick-what a style!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So sweet & pure!!! Ron

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 2 Apr 2005 4:35 am

Good Lord...y'all are kidding me, right?!

Is that really what all you guys have been ravin' about?

Farris Currie · Post by **Farris Currie** » 2 Apr 2005 12:16 pm

It don;t get no better boys, donnie what the hell you mean, thats worth raving about.

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 2 Apr 2005 3:04 pm

Well, I went back and listened to the clip Eric posted...thinking I might have made a rash judgement. And then I listened again. Then, I decided I wasn't changing my opinion. While it is representative of Mooney, and his sound and style, I just don't personally think it's that good. It's pitchy in a couple of places, and there's some "irregular" volume pedal work. Now, it sounds like it's a live cut, and that might explain some of the deficiencies, but really guys, Moon's done a lot better stuff than that!

I was listening to Ralph long before Waylon came along. To be honest, I'm not crazy about hardly any of Moon's work behind Waylon (though "Good Hearted Woman" is pretty nice). I really like his earlier stuff a lot better, like the stuff he did with Wynn Stewart, Johnny and Joannie Mosby, and Bobby Durham. (That's the stuff I patterened my early playing after.) And, I especially like the sides he cut with Gary Dean! That was some of the hottest sounding, best licks, ever put on record!

Moon's one of my favorites, always has been. I just don't want any of the newer players to think that the clip Eric graciously posted was some of Moon's best work.

IMHO, it's not. I'm sorry if y'all don't agree, but I call 'em as I see 'em. Or, in this case, as I hear 'em.

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 2 Apr 2005 5:40 pm

Tp me what sticks out is how hard it is to play with very little reverb, and in the manner that "the artist" wants it. I think that was the case with a lot of psg. If I remember right Good hearted woman had lots of reverb. Probably something Mr M had to fight on a regular basis. That's what I heard anyhow..

When challenged by a guy to play "like mooney", after listening to a lot of it, I decided it was too hard on my nerves to play the straight raw style, and with no "reverb" to help out. This from a guy that couldn't play three Don Rich licks, so I shined it on..

I played once with Jimmy Patton before he died, and he always liked a lot of "Tin" on it. I'd adjust the treble til my teeth hurt, and I play with a lot of high end anyway, and he'd want even more, and he didn't like reverb either...

I've noticed too at the risk of igniting another whateveryoucallit, that on Bobbe Seymore's Master's Collection, the round taken by say Jimmy Day, were the ones I invariably like listening to, didn't necessarily have the most perfect intonation. At least on passing chords, but it had the most listenability to me.

There's a lot more to it than intonation, that's for sure.

I'll take part in yet another lesson in it tonite.

For a goodly sum, considering..

EJL

Jack Musgrave · Post by **Jack Musgrave** » 2 Apr 2005 7:07 pm

I dug out an old tape that I have of this album just to give it a listen. the real jewell on this tape for me was MacArthur Park. All I can say is WOW! classic country rock with an absolutely haunting steel guitar sound. Oh my goodness!

Fred Jack · Post by **Fred Jack** » 3 Apr 2005 2:08 pm

Eric and Donny, a few years ago The Moon went to Des Moines with me for about 10 days.Moon does not like to jam or be put on the spot.It just makes him nervous.Anyway,as we were tuning up he cranked up his reverb and looked across at me and said"is that to much reverb"? I repied "no, not for me".My buddy piped up" its a little much for me".The Moon looked him right in the eye and repied" I ain't doin this fer you"!I'm like Donny in that I loved the Mooney sound back in the 50's and 60's.I tell him that Waylon took the best damn steel player off the market when he hired Moon.There is a lot of "stuff" that he did with Waylon that was relly great! Regards!

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 3 Apr 2005 3:00 pm

You're right, Fred. I wish I could put a clip of Moon's early stuff on here. But until then, there's plenty of places to hear his earlier stuff in all it's glory. Moon was as commercial as anyone, but I guess he found that the bouncy, single-string style was more identifiable and unique. Anyhow, he built himself a legacy playing that way. I'd just like the younger players to know that he was indeed a hot, solid, "commercial" player at one time, and didn't have to take a back seat to anyone.

Here's a little Mooney thing (from a Johnnie and Joannie Mosby song) that I think all you old-timers have heard, and that you youngsters might enjoy. A good clip, but still only a hint of his true talent...

Click here[This message was edited by Donny Hinson on 03 April 2005 at 04:03 PM.]

Fred Jack · Post by **Fred Jack** » 3 Apr 2005 5:06 pm

Thats what I grew up on! Thats what we heard on the radio in So cal too. I loved it then and I still find his playing very refreshing to this day. Regards, Fred

Paul Norman · Post by **Paul Norman** » 3 Apr 2005 5:12 pm

Waylon wrote "I'll go back to her"
The cd has his name in ( )

Jeff Hyman · Post by **Jeff Hyman** » 3 Apr 2005 9:16 pm

Donny Hinson,

It's nice to agree to disagree. When I started this thread it was just to make notice a great Moony ride from the only
Waylon album that had that cut "I'll go back to her". It still remains one of my favorite rides from my favorite steel player of all time.

On another topic... I live in Mt Airy which is not to far from you. I would really like to come out to one of your gigs and listen to you play. I've heard lots of nice things about your playing. I'm sure we'd enjoy having a cold beer too. Let me know.

Jeff Hyman

Tony Glassman · Post by **Tony Glassman** » 3 Apr 2005 10:30 pm

I have to agree w/ Donny Hinson. That Mooney solo from "I'll Leave the Front door Open" by Johnny and Joanie Mosby is my all time Mooney favorite.

I picked up a copy of it at Ernest Tubb's Record shop in 1971, before ever owning a steel.

It moved me so much, I learned it on regular guitar.

About a year later I was fortunate enough to swap a 66 Dodge Dart with Lucky Oceans for his original S-10 Sho-Bud (the steel on the 1st AATW album).

That solo was the first thing I learned on steel. It took about 2 months before it even remotely resembled the recording....35 years later, I still can't get it as sweet as Moon did.