The Steel Guitar Forum

They just dont make women like this anymore. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2M_J16z9sk
She's a bit older than me but if I had a time machine, boy I would be after her!!!

Is that Buddy Charleton's arrangement?

Yes b0b, Buddy and leons arrangement! from the almost to tulsa album or at least most of it .. a pretty good stab at it too for a girl !! Ha!! just kidding!! she is easy to look at and has nice tone what more would a feller need ..Buddy would have been and probably was very proud of her..

Boo Miller

And there where some of you that posted that she didn't belong in the Steel Guitar Hall of Fane! She is way up on my list of super steel players,and you all know the many other talents she has. Joe

The steel part is great. The guitar harmony is awesome. Sounds like Leon Rhodes playing the guitar guitar harmony either live or over dubbed in the studio. Pretty much verbatim copy of the Texas Two By Fours arrangement.


Greg

I still say she doesn't belong in the Hall of Fame.

I loved it - she attacks the strings so positively!
Despite this being my least-favourite tune ever, this is a very creditable performance.

Mind you, those two old codgers sitting in front of her didn't look too impressed when the camera drew back, did they?

(Who is that sitting to her immediate right? I have my suspicions but I'm afraid to say...)

I never liked her as a singer, but I always thought she was a good musician.

Hmmm....
Barbara Mandrell or Lynda Carter......

It's a no brainer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vHQCipF-IQ

Why shouldn't she be in the HOF

While growing up, she was taught the pedal steel and lap steel guitars and many other instruments, including the accordion, saxophone and banjo. She played steel guitar for the legendary Patsy Cline. Cline once wrote to a friend in a letter that Mandrell was, "a 13 year old blonde doll that plays the steel guitar out of this world! What a show woman!" Mandrell toured as a 13-year-old with Cline, Johnny Cash and George Jones. She also played guitar for Joe Maphis in Las Vegas[1] and on the Town Hall Party show in Los Angeles. A couple of years later, Barbara and her sisters Louise and Irlene, as well as her parents, founded the Mandrell Family Band.[1] They toured across the United States and Asia. The drummer in the band, Ken Dudney became Mandrell's husband shortly after graduating from Oceanside High School.[1]

Because she plays more than the steel and her whole life wasn't centered around the steel guitar doesn't deminish her from being in the HOF Joe

joe..i don't know about all her talents, but i can imagine.

I don't know about the HOF, Joe! She's a pretty decent player from the sound of that clip, but surely invitation to the Hall of Fame is reserved for exceptional players.

I understand that Mandrell might well attract a sentimental vote here and there, but I think your suggection is a little unrealistic.

But she IS a member

BARBARA MANDRELL

MULTI-TALENTED SUPERSTAR PERFORMER WITH STRONG INTEREST IN PLAYING THE STEEL GUITAR BY AGE 10.
STARTED HER PROFESSIONAL CAREER AT AGE 11, A REGULAR ON THE WEEKLY “TOWN HALL PARTY” TV SHOW
IN LOS ANGELES - TOURED WITH MANY FAMOUS ARTISTS AND SOON HAD HER OWN NATIONALLY BROADCAST
TV SHOW, BARBARA FEATURED THE STEEL GUITAR ON ALL HER SHOWS WHICH HELPED TO FURTHER THE
POPULARITY OF THE INSTRUMENT

BORN: DECEMBER 25, 1948 HOUSTON, TEXAS
INDUCTED: 2009

And now we know where headbanging originated!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headbanging

Yup she sure can play!

I'd like to see some pics of the undercarriage.

Roger Rettig wrote:Mind you, those two old codgers sitting in front of her didn't look too impressed when the camera drew back, did they?

(Who is that sitting to her immediate right? I have my suspicions but I'm afraid to say...)

Hmm... looked like Bo Duke to right... to me... one of the codgers... was it Danny Davis?

Mike Neer wrote:I'd like to see some pics of the undercarriage.

You... are a sick bastid.

Barbara is more deserving than many before her & after her.

Besides being an outstanding player, she brought awareness and acceptance of the steel guitar to millions of households every week on her nationally-run TV show. Even my own Dad knew what a steel guitar was thanks to Barbara Mandrell, and if you can break through to him, that's saying a lot!

I also suspect that she served as a role model for some women who wanted to get into steel guitar but hadn't seen a woman ever play one before. That's also significant.

Did some of you ever hear the song "Steel Guitar" by Danny O'Keefe? It was written for her.

Of course any negative regarding her will be labeled Misogyny. I won't make that mistake
I put women on a pedal guitar stool.
I think her husband should be the one in the Hall of Fame. It must have been a terrible experience all those years he had to fix his own dinner while she loaded up to go play.
If a women can't cook she don't belong in the Hall Of Fame.

This can lead to nothing good. Closed.