Favorite all-time steelsolos

John Jeffries · Post by **John Jeffries** » 15 May 2006 5:17 pm

On Whitey Shafer's "All My Ex's Live In Texas" (On the Soundtrack for Playstation game "Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas")- I don't know who the steeler is on this cut, but man, I just can't get it out of my head! It's one of my favorites for sure!

Kelly Hydorn · Post by **Kelly Hydorn** » 15 May 2006 8:56 pm

One that hasn't been mentioned yet that I like is Weldon Myrick on an old LP by a texas gal named Dotsy? The song is Storms never last. Plus all the songs already mentioned. Also sarah Jory playing Cold Cold Heart live at the St. Louis convention in 1989, really nice version. How's about Tom Brumley on Buckeroo? Man the list just goes on.

Kelly Hydorn · Post by **Kelly Hydorn** » 15 May 2006 8:57 pm

One that hasn't been mentioned yet that I like is Weldon Myrick on an old LP by a texas gal named Dotsy? The song is Storms never last. Plus all the songs already mentioned. Also sarah Jory playing Cold Cold Heart live at the St. Louis convention in 1989, really nice version. How's about Tom Brumley on Buckeroo? Man the list just goes on.

Glenn Womack · Post by **Glenn Womack** » 15 May 2006 10:48 pm

I guess mine would be Midnight In Amarillo by aomeone I can't remember. Everytime I think of it, I catch myself humming it for awhile. It just struck a nerve in the music part of my brain. Still does.

GW

Dave Grafe · Post by **Dave Grafe** » 17 May 2006 8:42 am

What a great list already...for myself just about anything by JayDee or Lloyd rocks my boat; Brumley, Myrick, Black, White, Rugg and Hughey all have great solos that I go back to again and again, but Buddy's "Rainbows All Over Your Blues" stands in my mind as the very epitomy of a sublime ride and Paul Franklin's pedal-bro work on Dire Straits' "How Long" is too sweet for mortal ears. However, I have to admit that I am also rather fond of (oh gee, hand me down my flame suit please) Jerry Garcia's run at "Dire Wolf".

Ronnie McIntosh · Post by **Ronnie McIntosh** » 17 May 2006 8:51 am

paul franklin on alan jackson, once you've had the best

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 17 May 2006 12:21 pm

Also on the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas soundtrack, there's a killer steel solo on Willie Nelson's version of "Crazy". I'm not sure who's playin' on that one, but it's awesome. Brett, Emmons S-10, Morrell lapsteel, GFI Ultra D-10[This message was edited by Brett Day on 17 May 2006 at 09:35 PM.]

Craig A Davidson · Post by **Craig A Davidson** » 17 May 2006 4:09 pm

Buddy Emmons-Half A Mind
Buddy Emmons-So Much Like My Dad
Brazos Valley Boys-Dardenella
Buddy Emmons-You Took Her Off My Hands(I like how the ride drifts off at the end cause Buddy wasn't sure what was coming next).

John Steele · Post by **John Steele** » 17 May 2006 4:21 pm

Alot of mine have been mentioned, but I'd add
Robby Turner's solo on Deryl Dodd's "On Any Given Day".
-John

Brint Hannay · Post by **Brint Hannay** » 18 May 2006 7:10 pm

Sticking to solos, as opposed to steel instrumentals:
Lloyd Green, "Nothing Can Hurt You" on Ricky Skaggs "Highways and Heartaches"
Lloyd Green "Overlookin' and Underthinkin'" on Don Williams "Country Boy"
Weldon Myrick on George Strait "Right or Wrong"
John Hughey on Conway Twitty "Lost in the Feeling"
Ralph Mooney "Heartaches For a Dime" on "Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard" (or anything else on that album)
Anything by Jim Murphy on Redd Volkaert's "Telewacker" (also one of the all-time great album titles

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And as many others have said "Someday Soon" and "Blue Bayou"[This message was edited by Brint Hannay on 18 May 2006 at 08:14 PM.]

Ian Finlay · Post by **Ian Finlay** » 19 May 2006 12:50 am

I change my mind on this weekly... but this week:

Noel Boggs on Wade Ray's "It's all your fault"
Speedy (I think) on "I've turned a gadabout"
Joaquim on Spade Cooley's "Hide your face"
Vance Terry on lots of stuff

Ian

Jimmie Martin · Post by **Jimmie Martin** » 19 May 2006 1:05 am

future hall of famer bobbe seymour rose city chimes.

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 19 May 2006 5:53 am

There are so many! Just a few off the top of my head:
Big Jim Murphey w/ Redd Volkaret: "Strangers" solo
Doug Jernigan: "Cheroke" from Hillbilly Jazz
Ralph Mooney - "Foolin Around" from Buck Owens plays Harlan Howard
Joaquin Murphey: Sun Valley Suite (and practicvally everything else he ever recorded!)
Noel Boggs: A Little bit of Boogie - Tiffany Transcriptions
Buddy Emmons: "Witchcraft" from Steel Guitar Jazz - the beautiful way he states the melody in chords
Jerry Byrd: Pagan Love Song - early 50s. My favorite Byrd solo
So Hoopii - An Orange Grove in California
Ralph Kolsiana - Night & Day- so many more

Howard Tate · Post by **Howard Tate** » 19 May 2006 6:47 am

I love so many I can't just pick one,if I did it might be Jim Cohen "Hot-Tikvah"

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Roy Thomson · Post by **Roy Thomson** » 19 May 2006 6:49 am

Break on Duane Eddy's "Fireball Mail" by
Buddy and Hal's intro to "One's On The Way".
Spontaneous and Inovative! Never to be forgotten playing.

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Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 19 May 2006 7:52 am

"Drowsy Waters" and "Tiare No Tahiti" by Jerry Byrd.

...all done with the hands and amplification __ no mechanics or effects.

Joe Goldmark · Post by **Joe Goldmark** » 19 May 2006 6:46 pm

Here's a few:

-Terry Crisp (w/Ricky Skaggs), "Why I'm Walkin'"
-Jim Murphy (w/Paycheck, N.Y. Town), "In Memory Of A Memory"
-Dickie Overbey (w/Johnny Bush), "I'll Be There"
-Al Perkins (w/Jim Lauderdale), "King Of Broken Hearts"
-Bobby Black (w/Commander Cody "Live at Armadillo"), "Truck Driving Man"
-Paul Franklin (w/Mark Chestnutt-I think it's Mark and I think it's Paul...), "Too Cold At Home"
-Weldon Myrick (w/Connie Smith), "I'll Come Running," and all songs on the Johnny Bush "Here Comes That World Again" LP
-Lloyd Green (on many of the early Paycheck tunes like "Motel Time")
-Buddy Charleton (w/E.T.), "Waltz Across Texas"
-Don Helms (w/Hank Williams), "Cold, Cold Heart"
-Hal Rugg (w/Loretta Lynn), "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin'" & (w/Country Joe McDonald "Thinking About Woody Guthrie), "Reuben James"
-Jimmy Day (w/Ray Price), "Invitation To The Blues" (unless it's Buddy!)
-Pete Drake (w/Gary Stewart), "She's Acting Single"
-Ralph Mooney (w/Merle Haggard), "I Threw Away The Rose," and almost anything from Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard
-Tom Brumley (w/Ricky Nelson), "Just Like A Woman"
-Sneaky Pete (w/Barbara Keith), "Detroit Or Buffalo"
JayDee Maness (w/Desert Rose Band), "Time Between"
Buddy Cage (w/Great Speckled Bird-Ian & Sylvia), "Trucker's Cafe"
-Buddy Emmons (w/Roger Miller, all tunes on "Trip In The Country and especially "Tall, Tall Trees")
-Buddy (w/Ray Charles, Volcanic Action Of My Soul), "Feel So Bad"
-Buddy (w/Judy Collins), "Someday Soon"
-Buddy (on all the tunes from "George Jones Sings Hank Williams" on Mercury)

Phew

Tim Sergent · Post by **Tim Sergent** » 19 May 2006 8:57 pm

John Hughey has 3 of my favorites..."Lost in the Feeling", "Just Destroyed the World", and "Look at Us"...but I'm with you, Brint, my all time favorite "solo" is Lloyd Green playing "Nothing Can Hurt You" by Ricky Skaggs. As I posted here once before...Ricky told me once upon a time that the stuff that he had to fade out on Lloyd's solo on that particular song was equal to if not better than the solo that was left on the record. Would have been nice to have the Pro Tools editing capabilites back then, wouldn't it?

My all time favorite instrumental I guess would have to be Buddy Emmons' version of the Elton John song "Blue Eyes".

ESnow · Post by **ESnow** » 19 May 2006 9:59 pm

I'm with Tim, Buddy's version of Elton John's Blue Eyes.

Ariel Lobos · Post by **Ariel Lobos** » 22 May 2006 10:54 am

One pretty little solo and backup for me is Jay Dee from Jagger's "evening gown"

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Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 22 May 2006 12:33 pm

Jay Dee's work on the Desert Rose Band's tune "Start all over again" is tops in my book too.

Also, Lloyd Green's steel on Gene Watson's "Farewell Party".[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 23 May 2006 at 06:59 AM.]

Mark Edwards · Post by **Mark Edwards** » 22 May 2006 6:34 pm

Lloyd Green's Borrowed Angel solo.

Bill Myrick · Post by **Bill Myrick** » 23 May 2006 1:37 am

I never hear anyone play "Take The A Train" at any shows. I love the big band sound on Emmons' recording of it.

Per Kammersgaard · Post by **Per Kammersgaard** » 23 May 2006 3:29 am

Dicky Overbey's break on Jake Hooker's version of "Sing a Sad Song" - This one even beats Mooney's solo on the original Wynn Stewart recording.

PK

Bill Stafford · Post by **Bill Stafford** » 23 May 2006 3:42 am

Jerry Byrd's "Next to Jimmy" and Curly on Stan Hitchcock's "The Shadow of Your Smile".
Bill Stafford