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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

Look At Us,,,Vince Gill & PaPa John

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

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

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

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.

lost in the feeling...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

Tammy Wynette - Crying Steel Guitar

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

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

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.

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

Pete Drake...

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

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

Charlie

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

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