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Alvin Sydnor · Post by **Alvin Sydnor** » 14 Sep 2006 3:35 pm

John: You made my day with that.
Many thanks to Norm Hamlet for his part in giving her lesons. Barbara was born with musical talent.
Thanks
Aalvin

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 14 Sep 2006 5:41 pm

I've always been turned on by women who can play music, and here's one who can play the steel... wow !

Twayn Williams · Post by **Twayn Williams** » 14 Sep 2006 6:36 pm

I think that hair'd survive a nuclear war!

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 14 Sep 2006 7:01 pm

http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum15/HTML/012032.html

Andy Sandoval · Post by **Andy Sandoval** » 14 Sep 2006 11:49 pm

What a great tone she's gettin out of that Fender too.

Jim Hinton · Post by **Jim Hinton** » 15 Sep 2006 4:34 am

Is there anything Barbara can't do well? Jeez, I always had a "crush" on her anyway, and when I see her pickin' like that my heart just starts flutterin'!!

Tom Stolaski · Post by **Tom Stolaski** » 15 Sep 2006 4:44 am

I guess Paul Franklin was not the only person pick blocking in those days.....

Chuck McGill · Post by **Chuck McGill** » 15 Sep 2006 5:01 am

Tom I noticed the same thing. What a smooth
style she has. Plus singing and playing is no easy chore.

norm hamlet · Post by **norm hamlet** » 15 Sep 2006 5:01 pm

Barbara is a natural on anything she wants to play. I started showing her things I had learned over the years and it did`nt take her any time at all. she just seemed to watch me and play what ever I did. After she learned the basics she went like a house on fire. I taught her to pick block that I had learned when I was 17 years from a good friend that worked with Billy Jack Wills, His name was Vance Terry, He also showed me how to use three finger picks to play four note voicings on the steel.
So I showed Barbara how to do those things and she took them and ran with them. She is a lot better steel player than most people have heard out of her. If she had just been a steel player she would have probably got to play more on Steel, but she played the Saxophone also along with a bunch of other instruments and played them all real well.
The problem is if she had not started singing she would have stayed a sideman for some other artist. So I am glad she got to show everone how much of a musician she is.
Norm Hamlet

Jason Odd · Post by **Jason Odd** » 15 Sep 2006 11:05 pm

Isn't that Billy Mize in the dark suit?

Notice her steel has (the) Mandrells on it, I guess it's still the West Coast days although the family moved to Tennessee some time in 1968 with the girls playing in the band and they would hire on guitarists as they left their non-family lead player behind.
Forumite Earl Erb used to be their guitar slinger at one point.

Anyway, I'm not so hot at picking out which model Fender steel that is, but by the look of that hairdo, we're talking some time around 1966-68 perhaps, I'd guess 1968 if I had to nail down a date.

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