Woman Steel Player

Bill Howard · Post by **Bill Howard** » 7 Feb 2011 6:17 pm

THis is a video of Wanda Vick, I knew this woman was a picker but man there is a video of her playing a Telecaster SMOKING IT!!...
here She is on an Emmons.... What a Woman...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdbAhSvT9Xg

Bill Howard · Post by **Bill Howard** » 7 Feb 2011 6:19 pm

heres that telecaster tearin it up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMxZy1iTWjE

Fred Justice · Post by **Fred Justice** » 7 Feb 2011 7:10 pm

Scares me plum to death!!!
GO WANDA GO!!!!!

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 7 Feb 2011 7:24 pm

Wanda plays everything.....well.

Charles Davidson · Post by **Charles Davidson** » 7 Feb 2011 10:10 pm

Allways enjoyed Wild Rose,those gals were great.They took a backseat to NO ONE. Think Bobbe Seymour produced them, Wanda was married to Bobbe. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.

John Lemieux · Post by **John Lemieux** » 7 Feb 2011 10:34 pm

Wow for Wanda!!!

Ian Miller · Post by **Ian Miller** » 7 Feb 2011 11:47 pm

I just about died when it did the close-up on her picking hand (in the Tele-twangin' video), like a true hot steeler it's all thumb and 2nd finger.

It's already been said, but WOW!

Jaclyn Jones · Post by **Jaclyn Jones** » 8 Feb 2011 4:43 am

The whole band was great. Those mandolin licks were pretty hot as well. Loved Wild Rose!

Jay Fagerlie · Post by **Jay Fagerlie** » 8 Feb 2011 5:07 am

Boy, where have I been-I'd never heard of Wanda Vick.
She is quite the picker.
I just listened to her song "Wanda's Breakdown", that's a smokin' hot tune.
Good stuff.
Jay

Greg Wisecup · Post by **Greg Wisecup** » 8 Feb 2011 6:23 am

And if I'm not mistaken (which is very often the case) the singer is Pam Perry-Combs who is one of the headliners at Renfro Valley.

Sonny Jenkins · Post by **Sonny Jenkins** » 8 Feb 2011 10:19 am

She is a musician's musician,,,,been following her career for many years. Yes,,,her and our own Bobbe were married for awhile,,not sure how long. She can also be seen on Bill Gaithers videos,,mandolin, banjo, guitar, dobro,,whatever,,,

Chris Dorch · Post by **Chris Dorch** » 8 Feb 2011 10:47 am

Bill Howard wrote:heres that telecaster tearin it up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMxZy1iTWjE

She has a Glasier bender in that tele too...

Bill Mayville · Post by **Bill Mayville** » 8 Feb 2011 11:32 am

I have never a female band I have liked,or would even listen to.The one I remember in Vegas used very good musicians. Being so damn old is the only thing I can think of ,why I have never heard of these VERY FINE MUSICIANS !
I don't buy cd;s Much,cause I usually make them. If they have one somewhere I would like one for the car.Yes, I thought that was how fast I use to play my tele.I had 19 of them.I found out it was not the Guitar. But I don't think I was that fast.The thumb pick is the key to the speed.
My new strat(88) played five times at home, could not play as fast as the tele. but The Strat is the most popular guitar in the world.(fender says).
I am now a fan of the girls.
Bill. Hello bobbe

Storm Rosson · Post by **Storm Rosson** » 8 Feb 2011 1:13 pm

Dang!!! Ray Flack on speed...

John Haspert · Post by **John Haspert** » 8 Feb 2011 6:21 pm

They were absolutely Stellar! Looks like they disbanded in early 90's. Is that true? Is any of their stuff still available?

Brad Malone · Post by **Brad Malone** » 8 Feb 2011 6:48 pm

Wanda was the fiddle player in the Band on the Crook and Chase show out of Nashville back in the mid 90's, Tommy White was the Steel player..great one hour nightly TV show.

Dave Simonis · Post by **Dave Simonis** » 8 Feb 2011 8:43 pm

Saw them live at the Casino in Nekoosa, WI in 1992/1993, Wanda was on fiddle and Rhonda Vincent was playing mandolin/singing...never forgot that show!

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 9 Feb 2011 8:43 am

I've been screaming about how great this group was for years, glad someone has finally realized it, but only too late,,,, it's been over for 12 years.

Glad to see this great musical group aknowledged by my friends here on the forum.

Bobbe Seymour

Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 9 Feb 2011 10:03 am

We had them one year in the nineties for the "Chesapeake Jubilee" which is a local festival held each May in Chesapeake, Va They literally tore the place apart. Wanda played fiddle, lead guitar and pedal steel on the show and did an outstanding job on each. What was cute was that she was wearing a mini skirt but had a curtain around her steel so the "perverts" couldn't check out anything they weren't supposed to check out when she was playing that steel. All of the ladies didn't have to take a backseat to any guy out there, they surpassed most of the other major acts in their time. I believe the bass player was married to Steve Hinson who's on this Forum I believe. They initially got together to be Porter Wagoner's "Right Combination" all girl band with another steel player who's name I can't remember.......JH in Va.

Ken Byng · Post by **Ken Byng** » 9 Feb 2011 1:59 pm

Superb picking. These ladies prove that glamour and musicianship can go hand in hand.

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 9 Feb 2011 2:32 pm

Pam Gadd was the banjo player with Wild Rose. Donna Hammitt relieved Wanda of steel duties later on before she joined Bill Anderson's band.

They were at the ISGC a few years ago and they honked

John, they cut 2 or 3 albums. I'm sure a search online will turn up the info.

Wanda's resumé is impressive. Studio work all over the place.
She plays everything with strings on it and probably other instruments as well.

Jerry, I don't know if she was with Wild Rose or not, but the lady that played in the all girl band with Porter was Lisa Spears.

Paul Norman · Post by **Paul Norman** » 9 Feb 2011 3:57 pm

Jerry, I didn't know there were any perverts in Virginia.

Bill Howard · Post by **Bill Howard** » 12 Feb 2011 8:15 pm

I got a Lisa Spears story while she was part of Porter Wagoners Right combination band.... seems she sort of latched onto me (several pounds and years ago:).
At St Louis wanted a ......drink.......OK.....
Arm and Arm uhhhh We walk to a bar in Clarion
(think it was clarion?),I buy her a drink....
My Wife arrived......Lisa finished drink by herself...

....Great steel player that Lisa...
Nothing to do with it but Wife and I were divorced few months later, (Wish it been few months earlier:)
(Nothing to do with Lisa).
I Just missed getting some lessons from Lisa
Uhhh Steel Guitar:).

Steve Hinson · Post by **Steve Hinson** » 13 Feb 2011 5:33 am

Mrs.Hinson wasn't a member of Wild Rose...she played bass with Porter Wagoner for seven years and was there for a while after Wanda and the others left to form Rose...Kathy Mac was the bass player with Wild Rose and now owns a studio instrument cartage company in Nashville...Wanda is a great musician and is married to Mark Burchfield,a great bass player...I see them both on sessions around town.

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