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Favorite Pickers on Danny Boy

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My 3 favorite steelers on Danny Boy are listed here.

Buddy Emmons on E-9th

Curly Chalker on C-6th

Julian Tharpe on his Universal Tuning
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Buddy Emmons E9th
Curly Chalker C6th
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Winnie (Julian) Winston.

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Curly Chalker hands down! Neal Yeagley
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I never heard a steel version I didn't like. Same with "Shadow Of Your Smile".
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Buddy Emmons and Jerry Byrd are my favorites.
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JERRY BYRD AND LLOYD GREEN![/b]
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Jody Cameron on E9
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Post by robert kramer »

If you have some time, check out Jimmy Day's intro and turnaround on Johnny Bush's cut of "Danny Boy."
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I say E 2
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Post by Bill Cunningham »

What you guys said AND the Chalker version he did on Charlie McCoy's 197x album where the first verse is just Charlie and Curley.
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Does anyone have a copy of Buddy playing Danny Boy/Londonderry Aire they can email me?? I seem to have lost the tape I had of it.
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Post by KENNY KRUPNICK »

I'd like to hear Curly's version, but Buddy's version on the "Black Album" is a classic to me. 8)
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Paddy Long wrote:Does anyone have a copy of Buddy playing Danny Boy/Londonderry Aire they can email me?? I seem to have lost the tape I had of it.
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Post by Al Marcus »

I saw Reece Anderson play Danny Boy with 4 picks on his S12 Bb6-Maj7 tuned MSA in 1968 at Tom Bradshaw's first West Coast Pedal Steel Show in Napa, California. I'll have to admit, I was amazed .

Since then I heard Buddy and Curly's Versions and liked both of them too.....al.:):)
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Big E on the black album, followed by Chalker on the 70's album with Charlie McCoy. Julian Tharpe's open string version also. (I believe it was open)
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OOps, Billy, How could I forget Julian Tharpe's version, I got the album. It was great too...al.:):)
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Bobby -- done mate thanks
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All of the above and add Jimmy Day to the mix. Bobby
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Post by Olli Haavisto »

I heard an unaccompanied version of Danny Boy today by Julian Tharpe on Steel Radio . Is this the version you are talking about ? To me it sounds almost painfully out of tune. Great chords,inversions,substitutions, but.....
Is there another version maybe ? The one I heard could have been a live tape or something like that.
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Post by Kenny Drake »

I agree with you Bobby. I saw Jimmy Day perform it solo live at the Austin Opry House. I think of it everytime I play that song. Sweet.
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Favorite versions of Danny Boy

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My two favorite versions are Jerry Byrd = C-Diatonc and John ‘Keoni’ Bechtel = C-Diatonic! (Just kidding about the sec. choice!) It took 7-tries, but; I never did get it quite right!
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