You opinion please, best country steel solo ever?

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You opinion please, best country steel solo ever?

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A friend of mine asked me, and I'm darned if I know the answer, so I figured I'd ask you guys, and direct him to this thread.
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It ain't been done yet!
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It's a tie between Lloyd Green's Farewell Party and Jay Dee Maness' Misty. That does it for me anyway.
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Three nominations from my perspective:

John Hughey: Lost in the Feeling
" " Look at Us
" " Sweet Memories
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Is "Rainbows All Over Your Blues" country enough? Buddy Emmons playing a sweet, swinging tune by John Sebastian, that's the one that does it for me....
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Ha, you should have fun with this one. "WTS", Buddy, "Whiskey River", Weldon, "Just Destroyed the World", Twitty/Hughey, "Ain't No Chains", Bush/Overbey, "Oh Lonesome Me", N Sinatra/Buddy, "I'll Come Runnin'", Weldon, "Waltz Across You Know What", Tubb/Charleton,"Home in In San Antone", Bush/Buddy and Curly. Narrowing it down any further would be an exercise in futility; nothing new for me.
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Farewell Party...

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Bent Romnes wrote:It's a tie between Lloyd Green's Farewell Party and Jay Dee Maness' Misty. That does it for me anyway.
I gotta go with Farewell Party too...
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Lost in the Feeling and Farewell Party, for me.

And Look At Us...
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Lloyd Green's

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slow: Dan Dugmore "Blue Bayou"
faster: J.D. Maness - The Keys in the Mailbox" Tony Booth
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Moon on Waylon's "Last Letter".
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I might have to go with "Lost in the Feeling".
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I like Big E on George Straits Just like my Dad
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1] John Hughey: "I Just Destroyed the World" (w/Conway)
2] Curly Chalker "I Love You Because" (Carl Smith 25th Anniv)
3] LLoyd Green "Touch My Heart"
4] Buddy Emmons "Danny Boy"
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Post by Bill Nevins »

I always liked the break on Dwight Yoakam,I sang Dixie.



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"Together Again"
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Post by Larry Baker »

Lloyd Greens Midnight Silence and Triad, hard to pick just one.
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For me it was the interaction between the fiddles and Jimmy Day on Ray Price's 24th Hour. Impossible to name the best, whatever that is.
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I always liked Buddy's solo on the Judy Collins version of "Someday Soon".
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That's An Easy One:

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Anything by Ralph Mooney or Maurice Anderson.
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Post by Paul King »

"Look At Us" which John Hughey played on. Another Hughey solo is "Lost In The Feeling". More upbeat song would be Weldon Myrick on the Johnny Bush version of "Whiskey River". You talk about hot licks that solo has them.
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Post by Jay Hudson »

Hard to pick just one but John Hughey's "Look At Us" comes to mind.
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theres not enough time to mention all of mine but i sure like kindly keep it country
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For me its an emotional response.
- Someday soon...Emmons
- Look at us...Hughey

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Best steel solo ever

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Laney Hicks song "A love like this" by Buddy Emmons. I played it for our wedding.
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