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Tod Johnson
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Hawaii, USA
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Posted 13 Mar 2021 8:58 pm |
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The house pedal steel player on the Saturday night live stream Opry shows is flawless.
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 14 Mar 2021 5:30 am
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Tommy White? If you're talking about the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. He is their staff player. Some artists use their own player though.
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John Drury
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Gallatin, Tn USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2021 3:30 pm Re: Opry house steel player
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| Tod Johnson wrote: |
| The house pedal steel player on the Saturday night live stream Opry shows is flawless. |
T. W. can make a pedal steel do anything he wants it to do.
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John Drury
NTSGA #3
"Practice cures most tone issues" ~ John Suhr |
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Roger Crawford
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Griffin, GA USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2021 5:42 pm
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| When Tommy plays, take notes. He’s giving you a lesson on how to play. |
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Tod Johnson
From:
Hawaii, USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2021 9:11 pm
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| Richard Sinkler wrote: |
| Tommy White? If you're talking about the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. He is their staff player. Some artists use their own player though. |
That's the one. After re-reading mine it looks like I meant SNL haha.
I've seen him for a few weeks since the live streams started then realized he's the main man.
Last night he was on fire.
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John Spaulding
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Wisconsin, USA
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Marco Schouten
From:
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Posted 15 Mar 2021 9:59 am
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A great steel player and a great person
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 15 Mar 2021 1:32 pm
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| The year after I started playing steel, I went to the Opry, where I met Tommy. He's a great player, and in that same year, Tommy had played steel on a song recorded by country artist John Michael Montgomery called "The Little Girl", and Tommy had played on many of the songs on John Michael Montgomery's "Brand New Me" record, which was released in 2000, and features the song. Tommy is a great steel guitarist, and also plays dobro really well, too! |
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John Drury
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Gallatin, Tn USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2021 4:12 pm Re: Tommy White Interview
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John,
Those interviews are so cool! Thanks for sharing! I met P.F. Jr. at his folks house one time, while picking up a Franklin for Bobbe Seymour, really cool guy!
Got to know Tommy through the NTSGA and from his visits to SGN when I worked there, never met a more humble, gracious, self effacing guy!
He always made time to talk to ametuers like me about the instrument and answer any questions I had about steel guitars. Not a lot of guys at his station will bother to do that! Good times!
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John Drury
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