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http://youtube.com/watch?v=9E_GhtZj_78& ... ed&search=

Anyone know who this is? A couple of other videos there from the same event.

He looks a little like Smiley Roberts to me.......

Ken, my close friend Donn Tankersley wrote that song.
He got to see Paycheck do the song once. Donn was in the audience and Paycheck introduced him, a thrilling moment for Donn. Anyway Donn said he was using a band out of Texas that day and didn't recognize any of them. Big Jim Murphy played for Paycheck for a long time but I don't think thats him in the vedio.
Also I recently found out that Jim Vest did the studio steel on that song. I'll keep checking.

My guess was Smiley as well! I talked to him today and it was not him.

Great tune as well. We used to do that tune in my old band back in the late 70's and early 80's.

We had Paycheck and the whole band (Big Jim and the West Texas Sound Company as I recall) at our club in Valdosta, GA right after "Take this job and shove it". What a night, I will never forget it.

E9 on the back neck?

Super Dave Olsen?

I think the steel man is Jim edd's steeler.


kenny

That maybe my old buddy, Hank Corwin. He did alot of the Jim Ed Brown shows.

Yup, it's Hank Corwin one of the best players in the business.
Richard

Ken,,
Many thanks for a great post -- yes Hank was a great one on Steel.

Chris, Curly Chalker also had his E-9th neck on the back neck.

And Richard Bass : Richard, was it Hank who did the beautiful steel work on Paycheck's " This Old Violin " about this same era I think. I would love to get my hands on that recording -- heard it on the
Grand Old Opry way back yonder!! Thanks,

the old gringo, Phillip.

You right about Hank! He's living in Mississippi now.

Yes sir, Hank Corwin it is. He's one of our best pickers here in Mississippi. He's right down there on the Gulf Coast with another great player, Bill Stafford. Hank's playing a S-10D Rains, 3 & 4, blue birdseye mica. I special ordered it for him and he came by my steel shop one Saturday morning and picked it up. Great player.

Thanks again for answering that one. Great job there by Hank C.