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There are just too many for me to pick just one but, John Hughey's solo in Lost In the Feeling would be real high on my list.

As for solos and not instrumentals, everything I've ever heard by John Hughey, Mooney, Emmons, all the great things by PeeWee Whitewing with Hank Thompson's band, I got to stop, this is too hard, my opinion changes after almost every song I hear.

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Howard

Howard, you'd better quit while you're ahead...

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Jerry Garcia, Dire Wolf on Workingman's Dead; Rusty Young, El Tonto de Nadie, Regresa on Poco (second album); Bud Isaacs, Beautiful Mahana on Bud's Bounce.

Every note Lloyd Green played on "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" from the Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo album.
This was the first steel playing I ever heard back when I was 16, and I still love it. I cannot imagine hearing anything other than what he played on that tune.

Herbie Wallace's solo on "My Window Faces The South".

Any of a dozen or more Lucky Oceans solos with Asleep At The Wheel, for now

Paul Franklins solo on Dire Straits Walk of Life, and George Strait's That's Where My Baby Feels At Home.

Bob Hempker - "Pickn' Shovel" ("On the road with Loretta and the Coal Miners" album) and "For A Minute There" (same album)

Lloyd Green - "Husband Hunting" (and anything else he played with Lynn Anderson)

Stu Basore - "Tapedeck In His Tractor" ("NASHVILLE" soundtrack)

Jerry Byrd - "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight" and "Hilo March"

There are many others of course, but these are the ones that immedately come to my mind.

Paul Franklins on Dire Straits "The Walk Of Life"

Don't start me !!!!!!!!!1
Just a few,
Who's gonna love me now, LLoyd with Charlie Louvin,
Jay Macdonald as a Buckaroo on Pierce's 'Touch me' from the 'On the bandstand' album which I've got !!!!
Lloyd on Paychecks 'Or is it love'.
The Big E on L.J.Dickens 'We could'
Curly Chalker on 'A thing called sadness' and 'Mansion on a hill'.
Jimmy Day on Willie Nelsons' 'Waltz acorss Texas'.
Tom Brumley on Arrowhead and on the Ricky Nelson albums, as has been mentioned, where he carries you off on a dream ride, and on almost ANYTHING.
Feel, feel, feel, everytime, against fireworks.
Most opinions mentioned here are all emotional comments.
Usually it's not the wizardry or even the solo but that certain something in the playing that sends shivers down your back, when you can feel the player in the music.
I must dig my albums out again, it's got me going.
Barry

There are so may great steel songs by so many different steel players I love, but for an entire album I would have to go with Tom Brumley on the Buck Owens live at Carnegie Hall Concert album or Lloyd Green on Charlie Pride's Live at Panther Hall album.

Off the LP by Doug Jernigan called Up Town To Country...the song is Orange Blossom Special and its the second part of the song when Doug performs majic with those chromatics. I have heard a lot of players do that song but in my opinion none have done as great a job as Doug Jernigan.

Lloyd Maines break on West Texas Waltz...Joe Ely.

"Night Life"

I guess I also am with Rusty Young of POCO with "BAD WEATHER". But tied for that would be Lloyd Green's version of "FAREWELL PARTY" on YouTube and here's web page: Don't get much better than this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbjViunwfvQ

Although now that I think about it check this out with the Late Great Jeff Newman from the ISGC 1993. Song is SOMEONE TO GIVE MY LOVE TO from YouTube. Check out how he bends the strings at the keyhead in the song.

Here's that web page:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1s054PrC-o

Al

1. Curly Chalker- Shadow Of Your Smile.
2. Buddy Emmons- Night Life
3. Jimmy Day- Farewell Party (Johnny Bush cut)
4. Randy Reinhardt- When Your House Is Not A Home (Bobby Flores)
5. Dicky Overby- I'll Be There (Johnny Bush)
6. Lloyd Green- Remember When

If it just HAD to be 1 it would be "Shadow"

Buddy Charlton on ET's "Waltz Across Texas"
John Hughey on Conway's "Last Date"
Weldon Myrick on Skeeter Davis'"I'm A Lover,Not A Fighter"

Andy

Buddy Emmons---Ray Price's "I'll Sail This Ship Alone"

Weldon Myrick--Connie Smith, "I'll Come Running"

Hal Rugg ------Loretta Lynn's "Til a Tingle Becomes a Chill."

John Hughey---Look At Us

"Top of the World" by Buddy and Red Rhodes (the Carpenter's version.) "Someday Soon" by Buddy E. and I still get goosebumps (maybe I'm a fool or an idiot) when I hear Jerry Garcia's "Teach Your Children" over the juke box in my pool room.
Danny K

Meine Bruinsma wrote:My favorite all-time steelsolo comes from the album "Nashville Skyline" by Bob Dylan, called nashville skyline rag. Great solo on that track, played by Pete Drake. I'm curious what's yours.

Sho-Bud "The Professional" 4&4 D/S 10.

Meine-I don't have an "alltime favorite Steel Solo".

There have been too many great ones over the years
to ever pick one out......al.:)

Here's some good ones:
Sneaky's solo on "Diggy Liggy Lo" off of the Burritos' CD "The Red Album" from around 1976. Pure 100 proof Sneaky Pete. Listen to it here:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=n ... +Red+Album

Then there's Mooney's bluesy intro,fills and solo from Wynn Stewart's tune "Slightly Used".

I don't know it it was ever formally recorded but I have a tape of Jeff Newman doing an instrumental version of the Roy Orbison tune "Crying" on his Kline 12 string at Scottys in 1984 that still moves me.

Dave Easley on Brian Blade Fellowship 'Evinrude-Fifty'
Greg Leisz on Bill Frisell 'Pioneers'
Al Perkins on Manassas 'Jesus Gave Love Away for Free'
Lloyd Green on the Byrds 'One Hundred Years from Now'

Neil Flanz:"The New Soft Shoe" with Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels,live 1973.

When I heard the steel playing on this album,I knew I had to contact Neil to tell him how great his playing is...
I was 14 years old then,now 25 years later Neil Flanz is still one of my best friends.

Buddy Emmons "Getting over you again". Intro / turnaround, just stunning.