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Posted: **13 Aug 2012 8:36 pm**

You tube video of my good friend Sonny playing with Tammy ! Enjoy !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rscFckDx ... ata_player

Posted: **13 Aug 2012 9:15 pm**

Sonny Curtis! Oh man, can't say enough about your friend's sound. I collect George Jones vinyl from the Musicor era, and Sonny Curtis is one of the, if not the, biggest reason I decided to take the plunge into pedal steel. I wish him and his family well.

Posted: **14 Aug 2012 6:44 am**

I have known Sonny 35+ years and a fine gentlemen, great player. Still sounds as awesome today.
jb

Posted: **14 Aug 2012 9:21 am**

Thanks for exposing your friendly and talented steel player with the rest of the world. Enjoyed it very much.

By any chance was that a young ROGER MILLER on the blond rhythm guitar?

Posted: **14 Aug 2012 9:31 am**

I bought my first PSG from Sonny in Columbus Ohio 35 years ago. It was an MSA Red Baron. I was in the Air Force at the time. Took that guitar along for a one year tour of duty in Korea and hooked up with a GI band and had a blast playing in Airmen's Clubs and Officer's Clubs.

Posted: **14 Aug 2012 9:37 am**

Ray, I'm quite sure it's not Roger Miller.

Posted: **14 Aug 2012 5:45 pm**

The info on the video says its Freddie Haws on guitar

Posted: **14 Aug 2012 5:58 pm**

great vid, thanks!
Sonny has always been a great help to me. A fine fellow and great picker as well. I'll always remember him showing me the lick @ 0:34 when I visited his shop one day. Sonny has always had very cool chops, and his E9 pedals work backwards!!
I have his first Emmons guitar; ser#7/64/003 ES. Loved seeing that clip.

MC

Posted: **14 Aug 2012 6:21 pm**

Hey Mike,
I bought my first guitar from Sonny with my paper route money. He is a great picker and a super fun guy to be around too ! If memory serves me right wasn't that one of the first Emmons guitars to be built ?

Posted: **14 Aug 2012 8:10 pm**

Is that the same guy that played for buddy holly?

Posted: **14 Aug 2012 11:37 pm**

Great video! I have never seen that one before. Thanks for posting!

Kind Regards, Walter

Posted: **15 Aug 2012 3:35 am**

Larry, no that is a different guy....but they used to get each others royalty checks every once in a while.....LOL

Posted: **15 Aug 2012 4:46 am**

Charlie Justice-rhythm and fiddle
Freddie Hawes-drums
James Holly-bass
Charlie Carter-electric guitar
Sonny Curtis-steel

This is George Jones'band,The Jones Boys...later Tammy's band,The Country Gentlemen...she got'em in the divorce...

Tune had a little tempo on it,no?

Great stuff!

Posted: **15 Aug 2012 5:24 pm**

Sonney should have been inducted in the hall of fame years ago.

Posted: **16 Aug 2012 7:22 am**

I nominated him a couple of years ago....... Sonny deserves it just as much as anyone else.....

Posted: **16 Aug 2012 8:33 am**

Sonny was our first member of the Ohio Steel Guitar Association . We love him here in the '' Buckeye State '' . Sonny lives just down the street form me . We can't say enough about his playing and the tone he gets . Yeah for Mr. Curtis . OH by the way I don't understand those on the committee that decides who goes in the steel guitar hall of fame ,they should have voted Mr. Curtis in long ago . Whats the problem here ??? This man has played with great country stars and been all around the world . I just wonder how many on the committee can say that ? Just a thought !

Posted: **17 Aug 2012 12:32 pm**

Dustin,
yes, its #3.

Posted: **19 Aug 2012 12:13 am**

Good steel playing,:D but I was never a fan of Tammy Wynette's squeaky high voice.

But young or older, she was always nice to look at.

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THANX for sharing.................

Hof

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