The Steel Guitar Forum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7WiZvSflTs

What else can I say. Wow.

I can't get the embed feature to work.

Now, that get's right down to it.
Thanx. I'll be sharing.

Yes, he's one of the best of the early lap steel blues players. Although he uses a medicine bottle slide here (and not even a round one), there's an earlier photo of him on the cover of an Arhoolie album using the old style round brass bar with a flat end. He once had his own radio program in East Texas.

That's good stuff!

I've had the I'm the Boss Card in Your Hand CD for a while, but have never seen footage of him. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Vince

Vince Luke wrote:That's good stuff!

I've had the I'm the Boss Card in Your Hand CD for a while, but have never seen footage of him. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

I love the liner notes on that CD with him explaining: "My real name is Babe Karo Lemon Turner. I don't know why they named me like that. I throwed the "lemon" away and just used the initials of Babe Karo - B.K. Turner. Fact is my wife never knew what my full name was until just now."

Great clip. Thanks for posting the link. I love the liner note comments.

David D, It looks like a "sauce" bottle! Bwaaa!

That was a really nice piece to see. Seems to be a bonus, too. There's a great cut by Bukka White (Listed as Booker White) playing slide guitar in the column to the right of the clip. If you listen to that song (which is amazing) a cut of Mr. White playing "Poor Boy" lap-style with a kitchen knife is in the column to the right. Wish I knew how to just copy in the link. It's a problem with being raised up with a typewriter instead of a computer.