The Steel Guitar Forum

Yeah,
The more traditional stuff isn't selling.
Theresa

An earlier post credited Paul Franklin with Brad Paisley's new record.

I thought Mike Johnson played on those sessions.

It really doesn't sound like PF.

Tim

<SMALL>The more traditional stuff isn't selling.</SMALL>

So it seems sometimes. And yet, look at Alan Jackson's recent cover of "It Must Be Love". A great, more traditional, song made famous by Don Williams about 20 years ago. Proving once again, a great song is a great song. Bob McDill must be proud.

Or how about George Strait's somewhat recent cover of Vern Gosdin's classic, "Today My World Slipped Away"?

The one cover today that I just don't like at all is Keith Whitley's "When You Say Nothing at All". Allison Krause's cover was great. This new one (who does it, anyway?) is just terrible, IMO. He doesn't even get the words right.

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<SMALL>I thought Mike Johnson played on those sessions</SMALL>

You are correct. Mike Johnson played the steel on all the songs except "Cloud of Dust", which was performed by Earl Clark.

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The country band I play psg with has,as a side attraction, a 16 yr old girl singer. And as predictable,she enjoys the newer artist's material. I find it a challenge to sometimes "invent" a steel break where there wasn't one before. I also have to modify some breaks to fit the lack of instrumentation in the band,as lots of players have to do this .Even though I don't(as I have mentioned in earlier post's)care for SOME of the newer stuff, I enjoy trying to turn something I didn't like into something I do. To me, that is the greatest challenge a musician can face. I'd bet it all that the studio players feel the same!!!<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by GORDY NICHOL on 22 August 2000 at 07:04 AM.]</p></FONT>

GORDY,
These are encouraging words to any player today! Theresa

The girl songs are usually better than the guy songs on the radio today, and girl singers tend to keep up with current material more than guys do. A lot of guys are happy to keep singing the old songs, because they are better songs than what you have today. It seems like the best songwriting talent today is writing songs for women.

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Go Girls!!

Theresa,you keep talking like that and Gregg won't give you any money to buy CD's.. Ray

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Steeling is still legal in Arizona<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Ray Jenkins on 22 August 2000 at 02:20 PM.]</p></FONT>

Ray,
I work too! Theresa

I play new songs by Larry Joe Taylor, Ed Burleson, Charlie Robison, Chris Wall, Joe Pat Hennen, Mike Graham, Michael Hearne, Davin James......
Have I stumped anyone yet?