best crying pedal steel in song?

Matthew Wilson · Post by **Matthew Wilson** » 8 Nov 2010 6:21 pm

Hi! Please give me some of your favorite crying pedal steel in a song? Artist and song title. By crying I mean those songs with the majority of the pedal steel parts on really high scale. Much Appreciated!

Matthew Wilson

Richard Tipple · Post by **Richard Tipple** » 8 Nov 2010 6:58 pm

Look At Us,,,Vince Gill & PaPa John

Tommy Bannister · Post by **Tommy Bannister** » 9 Nov 2010 9:06 pm

TOGETHER AGAIN LIVE BY mike johnson WITH WIFE ON UTUBE
MIKE PLAYS SOME OUTSTANDING STEEL ON THIS SONG, completly a different approach from TOM BRUMLEY.
muke johnson also HAS A CD WITH IT ON LOOK HIM UP AT
mIKE jOHNSON PRODUCTIONS ON GOOGLE

WOW THIS GUY BLOWS MY BRAINS EVERY TIME i LISTEN TO HIM. i ECON HE WILL BE A SGHOF one day.great player
TOM

Clete Ritta · Post by **Clete Ritta** » 9 Nov 2010 10:42 pm

Anything played well above the 12th fret is affectionately called "Hugheyland" after the late great "Papa" John Hughey.
Look up Vince Gill and Conway Twitty and listen to any of his recordings with them and you'll see why.

Listen to a favorite, Sweet Memories. It'll make you cry, promise.

Clete

jolynyk · Post by **jolynyk** » 10 Nov 2010 5:13 am

Anything played by me, Pretty much everyone that hears me starts to cry...

Tommy Bannister · Post by **Tommy Bannister** » 10 Nov 2010 5:43 am

Anything played well above the 12th fret is affectionately called "Hugheyland" after the late great "Papa" John Hughey.
Look up Vince Gill and Conway Twitty and listen to any of his recordings with them and you'll see why.

Listen to a favorite, Sweet Memories. It'll make you cry, promise.

Clete
clete I have all of papa john Hugey recordings as well as his instruction DVD,ALSO HIS time jumpers dvd,
I agree with you on his uper register playing on the songs you mentioned, every steel player has tried to copy his playing ,but in my mind all has failed to succeed in doing it. so far that is.
We must not forget the new up and coming ones

Post by **Joey Ace** » 11 Nov 2010 8:55 am

I'll move this to the Pedal Steel Section, because it has "Techniques" listed in it's description.

I gotta agree with the above recommendations for John Hughey's legacy.

Also have a listen to Al Brisco's "The Heartache".

Some players "Cryin Sound" comes off as a caricature of itself. Others play the same notes and sell it, really touching your heart.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 11 Nov 2010 11:05 am

lost in the feeling...

Chris Lucker · Post by **Chris Lucker** » 11 Nov 2010 11:12 am

chris ivey wrote:lost in the feeling...

Chris has it right.

The minute long outro John Hughey plays in Conway T's "Lost in the Feeling." It is the reason I started playing pedal steel.

Alfred Ewell · Post by **Alfred Ewell** » 11 Nov 2010 11:12 am

Eep Hour by Jerry Garcia - it made me need to play.

Dwight Lewis · Post by **Dwight Lewis** » 11 Nov 2010 12:08 pm

Watching Loyld Greene and Jeff Newman play look at us on youtube has some crying in it also.

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 11 Nov 2010 12:23 pm

Brad Paisley's song "I Wish You'd Stay" features cryin' steel by Mike Johnson or Randle Currie and if you listen to "I Cross My Heart" by George Strait, you'll hear some cryin' steel by Buddy Emmons or Paul Franklin.

Brett

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 11 Nov 2010 12:26 pm

Richard Tipple wrote:Look At Us,,,Vince Gill & PaPa John

Vince also did another song in which John Hughey made the steel cry on, "No Future In The Past". It's got a cryin' steel solo before the second chorus.

Brett

Brint Hannay · Post by **Brint Hannay** » 11 Nov 2010 1:18 pm

It's not all up in "Hugheyland", but Sonny Garrish plays great crying steel on the choruses of Reba McEntire's "Somebody Should Leave".

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 11 Nov 2010 1:21 pm

brett...i'm pretty sure that's buddy on the 'pure country' stuff. my favorite is 'when did you stop lovin' me'...
...now that's country at it's finest!

Tony Glassman · Post by **Tony Glassman** » 11 Nov 2010 3:25 pm

"Together Again", which oddly enough is a happy song.

Matthew Prouty · Post by **Matthew Prouty** » 11 Nov 2010 4:06 pm

Tammy Wynette - Crying Steel Guitar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK5ROydJFTE (You Tube Like to Tammy Wynette - Crying Steel Guitar)

Bill Moran · Post by **Bill Moran** » 11 Nov 2010 5:49 pm

Thank GOD for Tammy !! In my opinion she was the best female singer ever.

C Dixon · Post by **C Dixon** » 11 Nov 2010 5:49 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEaStvQ7d7E

Now who could play more crying steel than this classic by Little Roy Wiggins. And remember not a sign of a pedal or a knee lever.

Makes me cry, and I loved and miss him soo much.

May Jesus rest his dear soul.

c.

Bill Moran · Post by **Bill Moran** » 11 Nov 2010 5:58 pm

Yes, Little Roy made me cry every time I heard him.

RIP ROY

Dave Simonis · Post by **Dave Simonis** » 11 Nov 2010 6:49 pm

Pete Drake...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGDlCViI ... re=related

Charlie Tryon · Post by **Charlie Tryon** » 11 Nov 2010 7:33 pm

How about Kimberly Murray's THE STEEL GUITAR SONG with Dickey Overbey playing steel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgF03UCjkBk

Charlie

Per Berner · Post by **Per Berner** » 11 Nov 2010 10:58 pm

Try Moe Bandy's "Home is where the hurt is". Weldon Myrick entering the frequency range reserved for dogs!

Frederic Mabrut · Post by **Frederic Mabrut** » 11 Nov 2010 11:38 pm

According to both Chris & Chris, 'Lost in the Feeling" with Papa John.