Page 1 of 4
Who is your favorite steeler?
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 6:46 am
by Cody Angel
I am a new player and need some good influences. I am a Lloyd Maines devotee and of course I love the work of PF and Buddy Emmons. Who else should I be listening to and who is the hottest in your minds? thanks guys!!
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 8:02 am
by Brett Day
There are a lot of players who are my favorites-guys like Randle Currie, Dan Dugmore, Sonny Garrish, Pat Severs, Paul Franklin, Bruce Bouton to name a few.
Brett
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 8:04 am
by CrowBear Schmitt
Joaquin Murphey, Buddy Emmons, Lloyd Green, Curley Chalker, Tom Brumley, Doug Jernigan, Mike Johnson, Ralph Mooney, Aubrey Ghent, Mike Smith, Paul Franklin, Steve Palousek, Campbell Bros, Rusty Young, Robert Randolph & many more
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 8:05 am
by John Billings
Lloyd Green!
Favorit player
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 8:16 am
by Hap Young
Buck Reed
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 8:29 am
by Bob Vantine
Most of my life I've thought the playing & especially the tone of HAL RUGG was what the PSG was all about . BOBBE SEYMOUR has a great selection to listen & learn from , JIM COHEN , also MIKE HEADRICK and my favorite BUCK REID .
Plenty of others with great music to pick from , but these are some of my favorites .
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 8:47 am
by Stu Schulman
All of them!
Favorites
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 9:05 am
by Jim Snowman Mitchell
Mike Johnson. the late, great John Hughey, Rusty Rhoades, Wayne Hobbs & Chubby Howard[/b]
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 9:18 am
by Chris Dorch
My top favs (in order)...
Ralph Mooney
Lloyd Green
Chris Lawrence
Eric Haywood
JayDee Maness
Lloyd Maines
Robbie Turner
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 9:32 am
by Ray Minich
Right now I have a fondness for Dicky Overbey...
At other times it comes down to all the usual suspects
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 10:19 am
by Tom Wolverton
I'm with Ray. My current favorite is Dicky Overbey.
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 10:26 am
by Ron Ross
I would have to say my top 5 are 1..Ricky Price..2. Dickey Overbey..3. JayDee Maness..4.Jay Andrews..5.Mike Headrick...
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 12:36 pm
by bruce fischer
day
emmons
mooney
green
murphey.....jim, wally & juaquin
overby
steiner
owsley
wever
rugg
newman
hughey
vest
rheinhardt
rey
byrd
scotty
well this would be a start.......
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 12:44 pm
by Johnny Cox
Living: Tommy White, Lloyd Green, Weldon Myrick, Buddy Emmons, Robby Turner, Doug Jernigan, Dicky Overby, Reece Anderson, Terry Bethal, Joan Cox, Randy Rienhardt, Sonny Garrish (during the Bill Anderson years)
Deceased: Hal Rugg, Tommy Morrell, Curly Chalker, Pete Drake, Billy Braddy, Buddy Charlton, Speddy West, Jimmy Day, Big Jim Murphy. John Hughy (During the Conway years),
Not necessarily in that order. And you may notice that these are all old school players.
Top ten: Myrick, Rugg, Green, Emmons, Chalker, T. White,Drake, Morrell, Anderson, Charlton.
If I had to pick only one, Tommy White!!!!!!
Note: I also have great admiration for Paul Franklin, Mike Johnson and Steve Hinson who are my generation of players.
Way Too Humble! :)
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 12:55 pm
by Carl Williams
Hey Cody,
You've been given the Masters of Pedal Steel for sure but don't let a Mr. Johnny "Dumplin" Cox get under your radar screen!
Johnny has played with some of the greatest country stars ever to grace a stage and to this day, he's playing for one of the greatest, Mr. Gene Watson.
Carl
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 1:46 pm
by Stefan Roller
In no particular order: Ben Keith (RIP), Eric Heywood, Paul Brainard, Paul Niehaus, Lloyd Green, Greg Leisz.
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 1:48 pm
by Larry Baker
Ron Elliott & Joe Wright, David Wright, Scotty Henderson, Buck Grantham, just to name a few
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 2:54 pm
by David Mason
Dave Easley, Doug Livingston (posts here as Earnest Bovine) & Mike Perlowin. They're first and foremost
musicians, who get a steel guitar to do what they want it to, as opposed to "steel players" who let it push them around. You'll hear a zillion people playing the "Buddy" liicks and the "Poco licks"; you'll never hear anybody
able to copy this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw2b73Yk7Hk
(skip it ahead to 2:35 if you're in that big a hurry)
You can listen to that back to back with the Coltrane and Stan Getz takes on the same tune, and not feel as though the steel is impairing the performance. Yike!
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 3:37 pm
by chris ivey
yeah..i hate it when buddy and rusty get pushed around by their nasty steels...
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 4:00 pm
by Mike Perlowin
I'm going to go way out on a limb here and suggest Susan Alcorn. You'll either love her work or hate it, but you'll have to agree, she is definitely different.
Some other names that must appear in this thread are Al Vescovo, Joe Goldmark, and David Wright.
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 4:40 pm
by Jason Hull
Jeff Baxter!
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 5:42 pm
by Marc Jenkins
Lloyd Green, Ben Keith, Greg Leisz.
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 7:48 pm
by Brint Hannay
If I had to pick just one: Lloyd Green
Outside of the usual suspects: Big Jim Murphy, Buzz Evans, Greg Leisz, Joaquin Murphy, Vance Terry...
The short list would be steelers I don't like! (I won't go there!)
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 8:20 pm
by Brint Hannay
Johnny Cox wrote:Deceased: Hal Rugg, Tommy Morrell, Curly Chalker, Pete Drake, Billy Braddy, Buddy Charlton, Speddy West, Jimmy Day, Big Jim Murphy. John Hughy (During the Conway years), Sonny Garrish......
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 8:27 pm
by Charles Davidson
MR. SEYMOUR. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.