New Clip of the Week 12/05/10

Walter Stettner · Post by **Walter Stettner** » 4 Dec 2010 10:46 pm

Good Morning,

Another track from the 1970s this week, 1978, to be exact:

http://www.lloydgreentribute.com/Austri ... Sounds.htm

Enjoy the music!

Kind Regards, Walter

Thomas Cepek · Post by **Thomas Cepek** » 5 Dec 2010 1:21 am

Good morning Walter, my friend !

That´s a nice song with great steelplaying. I don´t know, who it sings and plays the steel, but I want to wish you and all of you at the forum a nice second advent

Warmest regards... Thomas

robert kramer · Post by **robert kramer** » 5 Dec 2010 9:46 am

Stumped on this one! Just guessing: Keith Whitley with Doyle Grisham?

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 5 Dec 2010 10:13 am

Keith Whitley singing with J.D. Crowe and the New South, Doug Jernigan pedal steel. This is one of the best country/bluegrass records ever recorded (My Home Ain't In the Hall of Fame) - my opinion, anyway. This is a Dan Seals and John Ford Coley song.

Bent Romnes · Post by **Bent Romnes** » 5 Dec 2010 4:10 pm

Sounds like you know for sure, Dave. I just can't get it thru my head that the singer is Keith Whitley.
I am going to guess Freddy Weller with Weldon Myrick on steel.

Bernie Gonyea · Post by **Bernie Gonyea** » 5 Dec 2010 4:27 pm

I am puzzled also, Walter; the steeler sounds like someone I know; but am lost about the singer; Dave may be right.. But it's some of the best steel p-laying I've heard on a single recording in a long time.. Send us more of these great tunes.. Bernie

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 5 Dec 2010 8:31 pm

Yeah, I'm sure - I've worn out 2 vinyl copies of this record in 30+ years and am on my third. To me, this is the very definition of "great country music". If you aren't familiar with that LP, I highly recommend buying it, period - unless you are afflicted with the dreaded forum 'banjo-hatred syndrome' (for which you might want to consider 'taking the cure'

) - http://www.amazon.com/My-Home-Aint-Hall ... B00006JJ5I. Take a listen to the old Lefty Frizzell song "She's Gone Gone Gone" from the same album on rhapsody -

http://www.rhapsody.com/jd-crowe/tracks ... gestart=50

I dunno, it all sounds like Keith to me - but my first exposure to him was with Ralph Stanley. His vocal approach gradually morphed from his bluegrass work with Ralph to the more honky tonk country of his later work. If you want to hear some of his earlier work with Ralph, there are a bunch of clips from a show at the Birchmere earlier in the 1970s on youtube. Compare and contrast to clips with JD, and then his later work - I can hear the development clearly. But I always heard an unmistakable core tonality to his voice.

Everything about this LP was mind-boggling at the time - production, vocals, and instrumentation, which was (to me and I think many others) really quite ground-breaking for bluegrass at the time. I don't think I had ever heard pedal steel used so effectively on a bluegrass record, up to this point in time.

Walter Stettner · Post by **Walter Stettner** » 5 Dec 2010 10:59 pm

Dave, you are absolutely with your expertise. Doug Jernigan really showed on this album how steel guitar can be used effectively with a bluegrass band. The album is also among my favorites because it really blends bluegrass and country so well. Some of the tracks are, IMO, far more country than bluegrass, even J.D.s banjo is taken back.

Kind Regards, Walter

Dan Tyack · Post by **Dan Tyack** » 7 Dec 2010 7:44 am

Thanks for bringing this out, Walter. I've never heard this album before.

If anybody doubts it's Jernigan, check out his solo on My Window Faces South

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