Steel Player on Mel Tillis' Coca Cola Cowboy?

Bob Kagy · Post by **Bob Kagy** » 17 Oct 2005 4:29 pm

Anybody know for sure who played steel on this?

I heard it again today for the first time in a very long while; used to do the parts covering it. Always liked the fills and turnaround solo.

Thanks,
bk

Jim Bob Sedgwick · Post by **Jim Bob Sedgwick** » 17 Oct 2005 5:10 pm

Paul
Franklin

kyle reid · Post by **kyle reid** » 17 Oct 2005 9:25 pm

Sorry! It was Buddy Emmons!

Bob Kagy · Post by **Bob Kagy** » 18 Oct 2005 5:00 am

Hmm. Sounds a lot more like Buddy to my ears, but I've also had an e-mail vote for Paul.

But then I don't know.

Don Walters · Post by **Don Walters** » 18 Oct 2005 6:08 am

Liner notes on LP album MCA-3167 Mr. Entertainer, which includes Coca Cola Cowboy lists Buddy Emmons on steel guitar.[This message was edited by Don Walters on 18 October 2005 at 07:08 AM.]

Tiny Olson · Post by **Tiny Olson** » 18 Oct 2005 7:48 am

Right on Don. Without question, Buddy Emmons.

joe long · Post by **joe long** » 18 Oct 2005 9:21 am

The record lines list Buddy in the credits.

Bob Kagy · Post by **Bob Kagy** » 18 Oct 2005 9:25 am

Ah, the authoritative liner notes; always reliable.

Thank you gentlemen, and there's something nice about the answer pouring in from all points of the compass. Steel guitar is everywhere.

bk

Larry Bell · Post by **Larry Bell** » 18 Oct 2005 10:52 am

all parts eh???

Well since you ain't heard nuthin' from the deep South, I'll put my two cents worth in.

Don't need no liner notes for that 'un, hoss.
Shouts Buddy Emmons from the first note to the last.

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Steve Hinson · Post by **Steve Hinson** » 18 Oct 2005 10:55 am

...sounds like Buddy to me...

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Bill Bailey · Post by **Bill Bailey** » 18 Oct 2005 11:31 am

I thought that was J.D?
Bill Bailey

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Bob Kagy · Post by **Bob Kagy** » 18 Oct 2005 1:19 pm

Dogonnit Larry you're right. Consider me taken to task.

Don't suppose you'd take the excuse that I was countin Texas?

bk

Charlie Moore · Post by **Charlie Moore** » 18 Oct 2005 4:36 pm

Well i can say for sure it WAS NOT me now you know

.....Charlie..[This message was edited by Charlie Moore on 18 October 2005 at 05:37 PM.]

Stephen Gregory · Post by **Stephen Gregory** » 18 Oct 2005 5:28 pm

Actually, I think there were in fact, to versions. I believe Buddy on one, not sure of who was on the other.

Ernie Renn · Post by **Ernie Renn** » 18 Oct 2005 6:17 pm

Coca-Cola Cowboy is Buddy.

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Bob Blair · Post by **Bob Blair** » 18 Oct 2005 6:55 pm

Two versions? Yeah, I seem to remember that the one on the radio back in the day had the lyric "you've got a sexy smile and Robert Redford hair...", but then at some point (maybe on the movie, whatever the heck movie it was on the soundtrack of)I heard a version that went "...you've got an Eastwood smile and Robert Redford hair...". Why I would remember that useless little detail (about what, after all, was a fairly unmemorable song albeit with memorable steel playing) all these years later eludes me........ Is it possible that there was an entirely different version done for the soundtrack? Incredible that twenty-five or twenty six years later anyone would care!!!

Gary Harris · Post by **Gary Harris** » 20 Oct 2005 9:21 am

I think we agree, the steel playing was excellent.

jeffrey · Post by **jeffrey** » 22 Oct 2005 11:08 am

I think the "sexy smile" version played in the film when Clint was onscreen--I guess it would seem odd for song lyrics in the background to refer to the actor playing a role in the film! The single that was released to radio had the "Eastwood smile" line.