The Steel Guitar Forum

Yeah Ellis, that really is a good one. Hank was on
one of the Nashville shows and Tommy White quoted that solo pretty faithfully. The place with the cool note choice in the II chord.

When I get bored I like to have a try at working out
the breaks on Brad Paisles`s `Mr.Policeman`.(for about ten mins,then give up)
Randall Currie has to be my favoriete modern players.

John David Call's intro and solo to "Out In The Street", from Pure Prairie League's If The Shoe Fits LP.

Jimmie Short's recording (formerly with Ernest Tubb) of "KENTUCKY".......featured JERRY BYRD's fabulous steel guitar stylings and TONE.

A rare, rare example of steel guitar at its finest!

Buddy Emmons' solo on Linda Ronstadt's "In My Reply."

John David Calls' solo on "I'll fix your flat tire Merle"

Pete Siegal on Kate Wolf's "Early Morning Melody".

Red Rhodes intros and turnarounds on "Games People Play" and "These Are Not My People" by Freddy Weller, circa 1969. Great! (The entire album has great playing)

Ralph Mooney's intro and turnaround on Wynn Stewarts "If Tomorrow Could Be Yesterday."

Sneaky Pete on Linda Ronstadt's "I Fall to Pieces" and "Crazy Arms" recorded live at the Palomino club.

Another one- Paul Franklin's awesome solo on George's cover of "Funny How Time Slips Away"- George's voice may be about shot, but that solo makes everything worth it!

My all time favorite has got to be John David Call's lead on Two Lane Highway from the Pure Prairie League Live Taking the stage album....

How bout this one.

http://mp3.rhapsody.com/the-flying-burr ... -red-album

It's Sneaky Pete's solo on "Diggi Liggi Li" off the Burrito Bros "Red Album" which was a live radio broadcast out of L.A. back in the mid 70s. I heard it live BTW and taped it off the air on cassette as it went down and that's all I had for decades till it was finally released a couple years ago on CD on Gib's label. It's not my favorite BB line up but it's not bad and Pete's at the top of his game,gets a lot of good solos and even sings Faded Love. I saw this same line up a few months later at the Palomino and he did the exact same solo thru two cranked Session 400s and it filled the room with soaring Sneakyness.

I checked out Sneaky on Diggy Liggy Li - that's great stuff. That's a smokin' steel break, for sure. I might have to buy some of those tunes.

In my HO Paul Franklin on "Lost In The Feeling" by Mark Chesnutt on the album of the same name.

Back in the 70's there was a singer out of Texas named Dotsy, I think, and she had an arrangement of "Storms never Last" with Weldon Myrick doing the turnaround and it was IMHO very tastefully done. Still like to listen to it.

I would have to say Jr. Knight on the instrumental break on Lee Ann Rimes song Blue. I mean the fluidness of the melody in my opinion make it one of the all time greats.
Tommy Shown

i think that was milos deering

I really like the steel solo in a song called "Going Nowhere". It's on an album called "For The Country" by a band called "Dump Truck". It was released in the mid 80's...really good stuff! I read on the internet that BJ Cole is the Steeler, but I cannot confirm. Hearing that song was the final thing that pushed me to the point of no return! I think I'll go listen to it before I go to bed!

Joe

All the solo's Buddy played on the western swing side of Bobby Hick's LP, Texas Crapshooter. Pretty nice stuff...

So is that fur shur that BJ Cole played on the Roger Daltrey solo album cut, in the above clip? Trying to get a confirmation for a buddy of mine. Thanks.

Yup!

BJ Cole has a website, on on it he lists session work he's done over the years. He mentions that album, but not the Dumptruck recording I was talking about earlier.

Joe

Thanks, Joe, I'd forgotten BJ's site has a rather extensive listing of his work. One of my early favorites and influences (Cochise's SWALLOW TALES), and still one of the most interesting players, BJ Cole continues to push the envelope.

I don't know that I'd call it "obscure", but I haven't read a lot of discussion here on the steel break in "I'll Be There". That's some of the most incredible blocking I've ever heard. I learned it note for note off the record, but I can't execute it worth crap.

My favorites, as well as some of the most obscure, would be the sides that Ralph Mooney cut for Gary Dean. They are, IMHO, the best stuff that Moon ever did, and rank near the top for sound, style, and "in your face" tone and drive in any country song.