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Posted: **13 Sep 2005 4:22 pm**

Donna dittos on I Sang Dixie.

Posted: **13 Sep 2005 5:31 pm**

To me, one of the saddest, loneliest songs I've ever heard is Hank Williams (Sr., of course) "I'm so lonesome I could cry", and Don Helms' steel work in it is perfect; clean, beautiful, sad. Funny thing about this song is there's not a single minor chord in it, despite all the minors everyone else throws in when doing this song.[This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 13 September 2005 at 07:38 PM.]

Posted: **13 Sep 2005 7:11 pm**

"I'm Down to Seeds 'n' Stems, Again"

Posted: **13 Sep 2005 9:36 pm**

Lloyd Maines' psg solo on Joe Ely's "Because of the Wind"

Roy Buchanan's tele on "The Messiah Will Come Again".

Both the saddest, wrenchingest note-streams I can imagine. Great stuff!
Steve

Posted: **14 Sep 2005 5:01 pm**

When I think sad steel solos I think of John Hughey. "When I Call Your Name" tears my heart out everytime I hear it.

Posted: **14 Sep 2005 5:02 pm**

...sorry double post[This message was edited by Zach Parish on 14 September 2005 at 06:03 PM.]

Posted: **14 Sep 2005 6:40 pm**

Zach, oh yeah.

Posted: **15 Sep 2005 3:45 am**

"Goodtime Charlie" gets it for me.
When he sings 'Some gotta win, some gotta lose...', the steel is singing the same thing.
Sad has to be bittersweet to be real.

Posted: **15 Sep 2005 3:56 am**

Paul Franklin is on "When I Call Your Name" by Vince.
I agree Zach, it's a tear jerker solo.

Theresa

Posted: **15 Sep 2005 4:47 am**

`Because Of The Wind.` I forgot about that one. Great song, wonderful solo.

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Posted: **15 Sep 2005 6:08 am**

How about "Lost in the Feeling", John Hughey. Take your breath away...

Posted: **15 Sep 2005 2:48 pm**

Any Jerry Garcia steel solo. Wait...maybe that's not the way you mean "sad." [Okay, don't start, guys, I'm just kidding.

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Posted: **15 Sep 2005 10:01 pm**

After thinking about it, this is a trick question,there is so many sad solo's out there. It's like asking which one of your kids do you love most?

Posted: **16 Sep 2005 3:18 am**

The Holding My Own CD by George Strait has the song "So much like my dad" with the Big E on steel. To me this shows the incredible genius of Buddy. This break and ending fit the song perfectly by conveying the total idea of the song. I remember reading that Buddy said this was one, if not the most favorite break, he ever did. For those who have never heard the song it is about a young man asking his mother what his dad said to her to make her stay. The overall melancholy nature of the song, coupled with this steel break, to me is what steel is all about.

Posted: **20 Sep 2005 5:54 pm**

I would have to agree on the whole Derek and the Dominoes album. Little Wing sounds extremely melancholy to me... it's the tone as much as notes played. Haunting.

Posted: **20 Sep 2005 6:08 pm**

Don Helms when he plays Cold Cold Heart in honor of the rest of the Drifting Cowboys Band

Posted: **20 Sep 2005 7:48 pm**

Just about anything Lloyd Green plays on a moderate or slow song makes me well up inside. His technique and tone grabs every bit of my attention and it feels like the guitar is almost telling me a sad or glorious story and I'm trying my very best to understand it. Whatever it is..... it is beautiful and very few can do it.

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Rick
Williams & Kline U-12's, Session 500

Posted: **20 Sep 2005 9:44 pm**

Town Without Pity ; Ronnie Montrose.

Posted: **21 Sep 2005 4:36 am**

I think a lot of Danny Gatton's stuff has a real sadness about it, not so much the rockabilly stuff as the more jazzier stuff. Anyone heard his version of "Poinsetta"? Just a certain quality of sadness that I hear. JP

Posted: **21 Sep 2005 4:40 am**

Yeah Rick....Thanks for the reminder. So Sad to Watch Good Love Go Bad from Lloyd's "Revisited" album has gotta be one of the most moving I've ever heard. So...I'd like to change my answer to that! OK?

Posted: **22 Sep 2005 8:21 am**

I think I would be inclined to go with the two (one or the other) of Tom Brumley's mentioned above (and I have been racking my mind for an alternative!- Cryin' Time and/or Together Again. Simple, heartfelt, & defintely quite influential...
or- is there a steel on Hank William's So Lonesome I Could Cry? Which probably qualifies as one of the Saddest SONGS ever...

Posted: **22 Sep 2005 9:12 pm**

Norm Hamlet's rides on Merle Haggard's "Holdin' Things Together" come to mind.

Posted: **24 Sep 2005 8:05 am**

"Hurt" on Joe Wright's "Steelin' Country Classics Volume 4". Juice Newton's record is great, but Joe's treatment of it is outstanding.

Posted: **25 Sep 2005 8:29 am**

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-johnson

Posted: **25 Sep 2005 11:54 pm**

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