The Steel Guitar Forum

Charles. thanks so very much for posting my efforts on "Lovely Hula Girl". You are to be commended for bringing us all together with this site of yours. Great of you to do this and it is most appreciated.
Thanks for the nice words Al, and Howard I will see you next week end in Laurel and will have your copy waiting. This session was done at Gene Breeden's studio in Nashville and the players he had lined up for me were the best there is in the business. I was amazed with the bass player-15 year old(young in this case) Sam Hunter. He played all the songs on this cd the very first take as did all the other players-Jamie Knowles on piano. Gene Breeden on lead and rythmn guitar, Barry Wayne on drums and a great piano player who was the sound engineer on the board. These guys made it so enjoyable for me and I want to publicly thank them and to highly recommed Gene's studio there in Nashville. And thanks again Charles Tilley for this wonderful opportunity for my song to be here. It is really appreciated.
Bill Stafford

Been listing to some of the good picking this afternoon.
Love Bill Stafford,Mike Headrick tunes.
Wonderful tone and touch.
Vernon Hester

I've listened to some fantastic sounding tunes here...from Bill Stafford, Vernon Hester, Al Marcus and Mike Headrick. I'm getting another tune ready myself now that I got hold of a great reverb unit...the Boss RV5...it really makes a difference.

Charles has posted my new song for November...it is Chaplin In New Shoes.

Hi Guys-I had the time to Download some more tunes form Tilley's Website, thanks to him we can hear all this fine steel playing from our fellow members.

Here is some of the ones I heard. Ray Ayres "Laura" the old classice from the movie Laura around 1948, I used to play that every night back in those days. It is a great tune from long ago. I had my 6 pedal 1942 Gibson.E-Harp.
Jim Cohen-"Icarus" Great Job expanding the possibilities of the Steel Guitar.
Jeff Colson-"Crazy" Fine jobe on that old classic.
Everyone should play this one.
Reggie Duncan-"Gospel Swing",Vern Hester "Sweet Dreams", Savel Norsworthy "You dont know me", Bill Stafford "Lovely Hula Girl" from his Great CD.,Terry Sutton"s Great Rendition of "Song for Sarah" a Great Paul Franklin Tune.
All these songs played so well, and professional sounding recordings. I never would have had the chance to hear all these fine players if it wasn't for Charles Tilley setting up this site. A great idea, and many thanks Tilley. "Unforgettable" as my song says on site now....al.

John plays the second verse and chorus as only John could have done it. He was the master of touch, tone, and emotion in my opinion. This track will long stand as my tribute to him, and how fitting it is to have him playing with me on it.

Thanks for posting it, Charles.

Mike, that's so beautiful I had to play it more than once. I think of John every day, that's a special tribute to him.

Beautiful job Mike on a beautiful song. I thank the Lord so much for allowing all of us to get to hear the wonderful work on pedal steel guitar that John Hughey shared with us.

thanks so much Bernie
im glad you liked the tune!!

boy Mike Headrick and ole papa John
did great on go rest high!!

so many wonderfull players here on this site
I enjoy you guys playing so much

May the good lord bless you all!

Charles.
Good idea on posting Christmas songs.
Will be interesting to hear what the Fellas send you.
Thanks for posting my "White Christmas".
Vernon Hester

Very pretty, Vernon. And Mike Archer, you're right. There are a lot of great players here and you're as good as anyone. Great playing on 'What A Friend'.

Fantastic job Vernon Hester on White Christmas...you really put the feeling in that.

Very smooth sound Howard Tate. You have the Lloyd Green tone to your playing...great job.

thanks Howard

I realy like your playing very much

great job

Mike

I got a chance to listen to some more great songs...great job Mike Archer on that tune, very good chord work and melody. Also Roy Ayres...very beautiful work on both your Christmas song and the other one, Laura. Excellent chord work and perfect tone.

thanks so much John!!

love your pickin too my friend

Mike

Charles, what can I say that has not allready been said,once again, many thanks for putting up, Red Sails In The Sunset, without you we would have nowhere to strut our stuff, or the pleasure of listening to all our fellow steelies, and wonderfull friends, God Bless, Slim.

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What a better time to extend a million "Thanks " to every one whom has posted a song on Charles's web-site , than at thanksgiving Time. I, for one really appreciate the effort and talent all of you have posted for your fellow Forumites to enjoy. Besides, it saves me a couple of bucks , not having to buy your most recent CD's. But , I must confess, I have accumulated at least 40 new Cd's within the short time I've been a formumite.My favorite spot to sit and listen to a variety of steel players is right here on the " SGF ". Thanks to Mr. Charles for giving us that opportunity.. God Bless..Bernie

Charles has posted a new song by my friend Susan Trujillo called "Stranger" it is a song done by the great Lefty Frizzell...Susan does a fabulous job on that song. Give it a listen.

Charles Tilley has posted my new song for December "Raisin The Dickens". I redid it with the reverb added but of course I still have all the mistakes LOL. Give it a listen. John

I just downloaded all the Red marked Christmas songs .To me they all sounded like well done , professional recordings. All had good backup music, They all sounded better than BIAB to me,.Was any Biab?
Roy Ayres-Silent Night-just great as usual for him. Nice feeling too.
Duane Becker-Jingle Bell Rock-nice lpicking on that E9th.
Vern Hester-White Christmas-Very good, nice tone too.
Robert Jones-Have yourself a Merry Christmas-Nice
John McGlothlin-It came upon a midnight clear-nice backup and a good dobro sound.
Doug Seymour-I'll have a Blue Christmas without you-
Doug, you old pro, you still got it. Nice chords on
C6.
Roy thomson-I think everyone knows Roy, he plays great on non pedal and gets a fine tone.
Al-The Christmas Song"- With No backup ,reverb, etc. I am out of my league, compared to all the fine recordings I have heard on this site. Thanks to Charles Tilley for making it all possible for us to hear all the players on the Forum.You guys are all GOOD!! And Expert Recordings.
I should get a new amp for a better sound, but I'll be 87 years young on Dec. 10th and a little late for a new amp. Merry Christmas to all...al:):)

Thanks Al. Your song sounds totally fantastic with all those full chords and the tone is perfect. The backup music I used was a midi file but I am able to take the lead instruments out of a midi file with a program called Power Tracks Pro that came from BIAB. You just download any midi file and open it with Power Tracks Pro and you are able to even change the key of the song and you can change the tempo if you like. It will list the separate tracks of each instrument in the midi file and you can remove any of the tracks and just have a good rhythm track.

Many thanks to Charles Tilley for creating and maintaining the site -- and thanks also to those who mentioned some of my entries in the above posts.

Tilley just posted my song that I recorded in 1951 on my used 8 string 6 pedal 1942 Gibson ElectraHarp. One of the old Pop and jazz tunes from the Movie "Laura".

I recorded a transcription at a local Radio station direct to the board,no amp, earphones. Was on a Wax disc, no digital in those days. I did 8 tunes on it, this was one of them. My where did the time go, that was 57 long years ago.

Thank you Tilley for allowing us to play on your webstie. I have heard some great players on it that I never would have heard. Thanks again...Happy New Year to you and all the Forum members..al.