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Walter Stettner


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Vienna, Austria
Post  Posted 25 Jan 2006 9:57 am    
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Dear Friends,

The Country Music Association is starting a series of events acknowleding the important role and impact that the famous studio players in Nashville had on the success of 1000's and 1000's of records in the last decades. Without the musical skills of the famous "A Team" it would have been impossible to reach and maintain the high standards of these recordings.

The series of events will start on February 18, 2006...with Lloyd Green as the featured artist!!!

Here is the official press release:

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NASHVILLE CATS TO PROWL COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM

New Programming Series Kicks Off Feb. 18 With Pedal Steel Legend Lloyd Green

NASHVILLE, Tenn., January 23, 2006 - On Feb. 18, the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum kicks off its new quarterly programming series, Nashville Cats: A Celebration of Music City Session Players, with a salute to revolutionary pedal steel player Lloyd Green. The 2:00 p.m. program, which will be held in the Museum's Ford Theater, is included with Museum admission, or $5 on its own, and is free to Museum members.

The interactive Nashville Cats programs, the first of which will be hosted by noted artist/songwriter/musician and Museum stringed instrument curator Bill Lloyd, will include in-depth, one-on-one interviews with the players themselves; audio-visual elements, including vintage recordings, photos and film clips; and, in some cases, instrument demonstrations. Visitors will be encouraged to ask questions. Additional Nashville Cats programs will follow in June, August and November.

Green's innovative pedal steel work has infused more than 25,000 songs - including 117 #1 hits - over the last 40 years. His signature groove graced some of the most famous recordings in the history of popular music, including Freddie Hart's "Easy Loving," Gene Watson's "Farewell Party" and Tammy Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," and non-Nashville artists from the Byrds to Paul McCartney have sought out Green to play with them.

The Alabama native started playing Hawaiian steel guitar when he was seven years old, and by age 10 Green was playing professionally around Mobile. When Green was 16, Bud Isaacs' seminal pedal steel work on Webb Pierce's "Slowly" captivated him, and he immediately modified his own steel guitar, attaching a Model T gas pedal.

In 1956, Green moved to Nashville and quickly landed a job in Faron Young's band. In the mid-1960s Green began to make his mark as a session player, adding his licks to Johnny Paycheck's recordings for the Little Darlin' label. On these records, the steel co-stars with the vocal; in fact, Green's name was printed on the record sleeves, the lone player credit.

Over the next 20 years, Green added his rich tones to thousands of Nashville's finest recordings, one three-hour studio session at a time. When asked how he went about crystallizing his parts so efficiently and quickly, making lasting music from scratch and under duress, Green said, "The practice and the constancy were key . . . It never took me more than two or three minutes to figure out what I was going to do. Ideas would kind of pop out. I listened to the tempo, the singer, the ambience of the studio. I just let that be the food."

More information about the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is available at www.countrymusichalloffame.com or by calling (615) 416-2001.



After the career retrospective, Lloyd wil do a CD signing session at the HOF gift shop (they have also executed a sizeable order of his "Revisited" CD!).

What a great and well-deserved honor for Lloyd to be the first selectee for this new upcoming series of events that will hopefuly be continued with more of those famous studio players of past and present. Congratulations, Lloyd!

The only thing that makes me mad: I cant be there!!!


Kind Regards, Walter

www.lloydgreentribute.com
www.austriansteelguitar.at.tf
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scott c anderson

 

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grosse ile, mich USA
Post  Posted 25 Jan 2006 10:16 am    
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Wow...GREAT news...

What was i just saying yesterday about "Retro-Cool".... Yeah, baby.

"Long overdue", pretty much sums it up.

What an 'average' Country Music follower does not really realize, as i didn't until recently, is that mostly all of the music that we grew up listening to, (60s-70s) I always picked out all the great steel work in the song, and it pretty much "made" the song for me.

What I didn't realize until I joined the SGF, and really started following the instrument, and the players, is that Mr. Green has done probably 90% of the steel work for all the songs that I considered my favorites. To just now find that out, after all these years, Just amazing.

Once again, Congratulations Lloyd...If I can see my way clear to head south to "Gnashburg" for the 18th, i would love to be in attendance that night, to participate in the festivities and to shake your hand.

And thanks go out to you, my friend Walter, I think you do a fantastic job on your "tribute" website. I have several compilation CDs from you, copies burned by our mutual friend Red Kilby. You got great taste in music, my friend.

Take care guys,

Scott Anderson
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Henning Kock


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Denmark
Post  Posted 25 Jan 2006 10:39 am    
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January 25 2006
Hello Lloyd and Walther,
Great news,much deserved.
Kind regards
Henning
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[This message was edited by Henning Kock on 25 January 2006 at 10:42 AM.]

[This message was edited by Henning Kock on 25 January 2006 at 10:43 AM.]

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Terry Wood


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Lebanon, MO
Post  Posted 25 Jan 2006 11:12 am    
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This is Great News for all the steel guitar world, and Lloyd Green truly was and is still a great part of "The Nashville Sound!"

Congratulations Lloyd!

GOD bless!

Terry Wood
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Bill Simmons

 

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Keller, Texas/Birmingham, AL, R.I.P.
Post  Posted 25 Jan 2006 11:28 am    
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This is so deserving! I'm heading to Nashville for that event...my all-time favorite steel guitarist...congratulations Lloyd.
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Billy Wilson

 

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El Cerrito, California, USA
Post  Posted 25 Jan 2006 1:27 pm    
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What they oughta do is put out a movie similar to the one they did for Motown which was called Standing in the Shadows of Motown. Only this time it would be about country pickers. B.E. Lloyd, Pig, C. McCoy, Chet, Sugarfoot, Spicher etc, etc.
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Charles Curtis

 

Post  Posted 25 Jan 2006 3:32 pm    
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Wish I could be there and shake his hand! Lloyd just think of all the happiness that you have brought people with your guitar, and probably influenced many to play it.
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Gene H. Brown

 

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Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
Post  Posted 25 Jan 2006 4:05 pm    
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I think they should have done this for Lloyd , many many years ago, a fine man and a great player for sure!!
Gene

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Tony Rankin


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Land O’ Lakes, FL
Post  Posted 25 Jan 2006 6:41 pm    
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Very cool!
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David L. Donald


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Koh Samui Island, Thailand
Post  Posted 25 Jan 2006 8:01 pm    
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Nice to see Music City honoring it's own...
rather than eating them for lunch.

Lloyd a BIG congratulations to you.
Nice to see the sound that launched
or relaunched a 1000 carreers
getting it's due.
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Buck Grantham R.I.P.


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Denham Springs, LA. USA
Post  Posted 25 Jan 2006 8:30 pm    
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Congratulations to Lloyd. Well deserved. A great player and also a great person.
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Ricky Davis


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Bertram, Texas USA
Post  Posted 27 Jan 2006 9:56 am    
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Here's the cool poster/post card for this event; that the correct date is February 18th, 2006

WE are all ultra-proud of you Lloyd; well deserved.
I am also proud to have you as my friend and Mentor; and thank you Dot for the cool Postcard> Ya'll are the Coolest.
Ricky

Ricky
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Al Moss


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Kent,OH,USA
Post  Posted 28 Jan 2006 10:29 am    
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There's also a really nice feature article in the new Journal of Country Music all about Lloyd's life and times, written by Robbie Fulks. Nice story lines including Johnny Paycheck's Little Darlin sides, and a serendipitous tie in regarding the Charlie Pride, Panther Hall record. -some funny sidebar anecdotes too, in particular, his working with the Byrds on the 'Sweetheart record. Interesting intro to the article that's set up with an account of a Robert Randolph and Lloyd meeting.

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Redd V


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Galax Va
Post  Posted 30 Jan 2006 1:36 pm    
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Its about time!!!
Congrats Lloyd,
Redd
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Jeff Bradshaw


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Leslieville, Alberta - Canada
Post  Posted 30 Jan 2006 5:41 pm    
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As all who may read this already know, this is very much well deserved recognition and as Red stated "It's about time"!!!
Best regards. ..jeff
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