The Steel Guitar Forum

Anything By Lloyd Green. SONNY.

My favorite steel solo, hmmmm, let me see here, because there are so many that I have heard through my 50 years of life (lol). Weldon Myrick playing " I'll come runnin to you" by Connie Smith, "Don't Come
Home A Drinkin" with Hal Rugg, and i'm saving the best for last, "Lost In The Feeling" by Conway, with the great John Hughey playing, John played that song
so much feel in it that everytime I hear it I close my eyes and just visualize my wife and I on the dance floor dancing and like the line said in the bridge about her and the the music have gone to our heads. The steel guitar like i have said before is such a beautiful, beautiful instrument. They don't make steel players like him anymore.
tommy shown

Too many to list for sure, but nobody has mentioned Pete Drake's beautiful playing on "Behind That Locked Door" from George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" album.

Blue Bayou, Bill Ferguson & JH on I Love You So Much, and Ricky Davis Farewell Party, and of course Buddy, Wimpy, and Bobbe.

Far too many for me to come up with just one or two, but unless I missed it, I'm surprised that nobody mentioned Weldon on "If Love Was A Bottle Of Wine". Happy Holidays - Jimmie

...and, since I'e been listening to this CD for 10 months, Randy Beavers "Lean On It". Ther is something very comfortable about hearing the tunes on his "My Favorite Things". The "West Side Story" tune "Somewhere" has me pushing repeat a lot as I'm driving down the road. Don D.

Tommy White live at the Opry with the Whites playin "If it ain't love"! In his solo he raises the first string on E9th with his finger on his left hand! Just an awesome player!! He was playin his red Emmons back then! It was smokin!!!

John Huey plays steel on a Dickie Betts solo record called "Highway Call". The song "Hand Picked" is an instrumental for everyone to air it out. Johns first solo (at 2:55) is great. At 3:35 he takes off a on a single note run that makes me jump out of my skin everytime I hear it. Just somethin' about it!

Buddy Emmons on Steve Youngs' "Renegade Picker" album. Pick any solo or fill. Nice bit of work by Buddy.

I like Buddy Cages "Sweet Lovin One" solo also.

Red Rhodes on Ian Matthews version of "Seven Bridges Road" Very COOL tone on that one!

Lucky Oceans "Jumpin' At the Woodside" solo on the self titled album "Asleep At The Wheel" Lucky did some really neat horn type stuff on that record and "Comin' At Ya"

Garcias' solo on "Dirty Business", for thinking outside the box. On the first NRPS record.

BUT I wish to bring to attention one of the greastest, BILLY RONINSON, He played some great steel guitar his whole life time.And what a great man he is.


ernie

Sleepwalk by Santo & Johnny.

Impossible for me to pick just one, but I have been listening to a lot on the iPod while out on walks with my dog Alan Jackson's "Remember When."

Lloyd Green's solo on that song is to me the essence of pedal steel playing at its finest. The word that comes to mind is: Eloquent

Pete Drake on " stronger than dirt " by Jimmy skinner and " exactly like him " by Adrian Roland . live recording at the grand ole opry 1966 , 39th anneversary of the opry LP, pure country steel .

Buddy Emmons "Getting over you again" is exquisite .

my favorite would be buddy charletons cool it or speedy west on honky tonk girl

I believe "Lost In The Feeling" was Paul Franklin

Well, like a lot of us, one of my favourites is Tom on "Together Again," and the terrific runs and licks on Jean Stafford's "Stealin' the Two-Step" and "Don't Bet Your Boots," and there's one really beautiful waltz that Waylon Jennings did called "Waltz Me to Heaven" that has an absolutely gorgeous steel turnarund in it...I don't know who did it, but that one is another of my faves, and there's "Blue Bayou," Jerry's "Teach Your Children Well," and the list goes on...Jay Dee with The Desert Rose Band, Mike Daley from George Strait's Ace in the Hole band, Michel Rose when he's playing anything, etc, etc, etc
Mike Kirkley
Sydney, Australia

Tom Brumley's solo in "I sang Dixie" by Dwight Joachim stands out for me as being very memorable !!

And Paul Franklins E9th and C6th solos in Alan Jackson's "I don't even know her name" !!!

If I can treat an entire steel insturmental , as a steel "solo": Dick Meis, Some Day Soon, who incidently favors a unique clean sound. However what makes this stand out as my favorite steel solo(insturmental ) is his beautiful melodic treatment for an already pretty song.

terry...bad place to jump in...john on feeling...

Walk if life solo by Paul Franklin with Dire Straits, yeah baby !!!

I know...this is a really old post, but I just ran across it...Pretty much all you all have said...but the ones that seemed to get my attention way back when were Wynn Stewart's "Its such a pretty world today", but more the Nancy Sinatra version, way more...anything that Tom Brumley was doing with Buck Owens, I thought I'd have that figured out in a week or two...still don't...John Hughey on "Just Destroyed the World I'm living in"...but the one that really got me interested in steel, was I think Hal Ruggs, but truly have no idea then just a hunch on Cal Smiths, "The Lord knows I'm drinking"...nothing spectacular, but I remember the time and place when I first heard it and got goosebumbs...I told my Dad then and there, that's what I want to play...funny how some things are able to inspire us.

Back about the 5th or 6th year of the steel convention in ST Louis when Zane Beck was still alive I heard Randy Beavers play YESTERDAY on his ZB Custom and I've wished a 100 times I had recorded it because by the time I got home I couldn't remember any of it. I asked Randy at the Texas convention if he would play it but he said he couldn't remember playing it but I did

"...but the one that really got me interested in steel, was I think Hal Ruggs, but truly have no idea then just a hunch on Cal Smiths, "The Lord knows I'm drinking"

That was actually MR. John Hughey

This was also the song that got me to go see John and Cal at the NC State Fairgrounds Arena. I was gathering material for one of my FENDER/FRETTS articles and had a small grandaughter with me. A guard tossed me out even though John tried to stop it but I told him to leave it lay because I had what I'd come for. They played TLKID right at the beginning because John knew I was going to hang outside until I heard it.

Some weeks later our band was playing a benefit at the same arena and I saw that same guard in the crowd. Told our singer I couldn't play with him out there and he got him tossed out. What I wouldn't have given to see his face when the Chief of Security told him to go home.

Regards, Paul