The Steel Guitar Forum

Greeting to all and wishing you a Merry Christmas.

February 10th, the second Sunday in Feburary will be our annual Steel Guitar Show. Not having a venue suitable for a good show we didn't have one in 2012. Well, we have found the ideal place. We are now working on booking the talent for this steel show. At next posting I will be naming the talent and directions to the new venue. We will have the same great music, food and fellowship. We will also anounce the next player to be added to the Georgia Steel Guitar Wall of honor. Please make plans to attend the Northwest Steel Guitar Show. More information to come.

All money raised is donated to the Shriners Hospitals

Jerry always has a first class show. Looking forward to it already!

Looking forward to finding out where the new location of the show will be. Looks like it might be a good one.

Would love to be there but were having a widows lunch at my Masonic lodge that day. Jerrys show is always wonderful and Im sure the turn out will be exceptional this year. And not to mention all proceeds go to the Shriners hospital. Have fun everyone!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Please add my name to the Pickers list. Looking forward to another great show!

Count me in if possible
Larry

I plan on making this show, a playing spot would be great, Shorty

Emmon D10 p/p, Peavy nashville 1000, Peavy Nashville 112, Peavy 400 Limited

It'd be great to be able to make it to this, to meet some steelers and hear some great music! Will check back for more info.

Good Lord willing I will be there.

I will post one of our guest will be my friend and great player Russ Hicks. More to come. I'll add the vinue is in Dallas, Georgia not downtown Atlanta. More information to come. Thanks for all that have e-mailed me. We are planning a good show.

Thanks to you all for your support.

Jerry

Good Lord willing, I'll be there with my good friend Jeremy Drawbough

Happy New Year to all. Ronnie and I are in the process of going through the e-mails. We are honored that so many players want to play our show. One day maybe we may try a two day event. We are also entertaining a couple more ideas to get more players in to play. So far, adding to the list along with Russ Hicks are; Jeremy Drawbaugh, Roger Crawford, Tim Hamilton, The three Bill's [Ferguson, Nicholson, and Cunningham] and Larry Moore. These are just a few of the e-mails we have gotten to, we have more to look at. Stay tuned. I hope to add direction on the next post. We are still working on a suprise guest to share the spot light with Russ. Thanks for your support. We play so the children can walk.

Jerry's right about the new venue. There's lots of room to set up and practice, a big auditorium and a kitchen to boot!!!

Join us this year.

The address for our new venue is
Paulding County Senior Citizens Center
54 Industrial Way North
Dallas, GA 30132

This is directly across Industrial Way from the Paulding County Detention Center. The address does show up on GPS Units. Here are quick directions via Interstates:

I-75 Going South from Tennessee:
Exit right onto Exit 285, Red Top Mountain Road
Turn right onto Red Top Mountain Road to 1st red light .3 miles.
Turn right onto Red Top Mountain Road SW for .2 miles to Us 41 S.
Turn left onto US 41 S 6.1 Miles to Ga Hwy 92 S /Old Acworth Road.
Stay straight at the red light intersection of Hwy 92 S and Ga Hwy 381 for 6 miles.
Turn right into Industrial Boulavard for .1 miles.
Senior Center is on the right.

I-75 Going North from Florida:

Exit 401 South Marietta Parkway to Franklin Road
Turn Left at top of ramp and follow S. Marietta Pkwy for 2.9 miles to Powder Springs Road.
Turn right on Powder Springs Road for .4 miles to Highway 120 to Dallas.
Follow Highway 120 for 10.3 miles. At the Paulding County / Cobb County line, East Paulding Drive will turn right at a red light.
Follow E. Paulding DR for 4.6 miles and turn left onto Highway 381.
Take Hwy 381 2 miles to North INdustrial Blvd. The building is on the right.

I-20:

Take Exit 44, Camp Creek Parkway, Thornton Road and turn west for 14.1 miles
Georgia Hwy 61 will be at the Kroger Shopping Center at the red light, turn right onto Ga Hwy 61 North for .7 miles.
At red light, Merchants Drive, turn left for .7 miles to Memorial Drive/Highway 381 on the right.
Follow Highway 381 for 1.5 miles to N Industrial Drive

If you have any problems contact either Jerry or Me and we will work you through the directions.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Ronnie

I'm plannin to bring a couple of Shriners from Al Sihah with me.

I will do my best to remember to bring that CD with the song book on it. If you think to remind me again, I would appreciate it!

Ronnie

In light of recent comments from Blake Shelton on traditional country, and his name calling of us "old farts" which I am only a year younger than Blake and cut my teeth on traditional country and swing music. I am bringing my band, well its not my band, but the band I play in. And you wanna talk about traditional country I thought I new all the classics until I hooked up with this band 6 years ago. Will be bringin some tunes you prolly haven't heard in a long time. Look forward to the show once again love all my georgia friends.
In the words of Vince Gill "kindly keep it Country"

We are still working on our players but these are the player who have agreed to be there to share their talent. Bill Nicholson, Bill Ferguson, Steve Walker[From South Carolina], Larry Stewart, Bill Cunningham,Tommy Dodd, Russ Hicks [Barefoot Jerry]Eddie Dunlap [works with Clay Walker]Larry Moore, Roger Crawford, Jeremy Drawbaugh[From Alabama].We do our best to bring you a good program. All of these player are good players and I'm sure you will have a good time and hear some great music. We will have our kitchen open and ready to serve you a good home cooked meal. Come help us raise money for the Shriners Hospital. We play so they can walk.

Eddie is a super player! He is the young blood that will help keep steel guitar in our music.

I'm proud to add Michael Sweeney to our list of talent. It look like we have a top notch program ready for your listening pleasure. Really looking forward to February 10, 2013. Tell your friends and come on out to Dallas, Georgia and help us raise some money for the Shriners Hospital. Ronnie and I appreciate all you guys do to help us with this program. Thank you.

Looking forward to it Jerry.

Mike, now I KNOW I'm going! What's it been, like, thirty years?

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER WHO STARTED THE MOVE FOR THE GEORGIA SHOW???????

ERNIE CAWBY AND A AIR FORCE GUY PLAYED ONE NIGHT AT THE QUITMAN GA DANCE.
AFTER THE DANCE WAS OVER WE WERE TALKING OUTSIDE THE BUILDING I TOLD HIM WE NEED A STEEL GUITAR CLUB TO GET
ALL THE STEEL PLAYERS TOGETHER. WAYNE BAKER WENT HOME THAT NIGHT AND POSTED AND THAT STARTED THE BALL ROLLING.
THEY ASK ME TO BE PRES, OR WAYNE WE LIVED TO FOR AWAY. WITH ME IN FL. HE IN THE AIR FORCE.

KEEP IT GOING GUYS I WILL BE THERE IN SPIRIT, SURE LOVE ALL YOU GUYS AND MISS THE GREAT GET TOGETHER. I KNOW WITH YOUR LINE UP IT WILL BE A GREAT SHOW.
DONA DODD KNOWS ALL ABOUT THIS, IF SHE REMEMBERS.

LOVE YOU DONNA

ERNIE

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER WHO STARTED THE MOVE FOR THE GEORGIA SHOW???????

ERNIE CAWBY AND A AIR FORCE GUY PLAYED ONE NIGHT AT THE QUITMAN GA DANCE.
AFTER THE DANCE WAS OVER WE WERE TALKING OUTSIDE THE BUILDING I TOLD HIM WE NEED A STEEL GUITAR CLUB TO GET ALL THE STEEL PLAYERS HAVING A GREAT TIME MEETING AND PLAYING, IT WOULD BE GREAT FUN TO MEET THEM ALL.
ALL THE STEEL PLAYERS TOGETHER. WAYNE BAKER WENT HOME THAT NIGHT AND POSTED AND THAT STARTED THE BALL ROLLING.
THEY ASK ME TO BE PRES, OR WAYNE WE LIVED TO FAR AWAY. WITH ME IN FL. HE IN THE AIR FORCE.

KEEP IT GOING GUYS I WILL BE THERE IN SPIRIT, SURE LOVE ALL YOU GUYS AND MISS THE GREAT GET TOGETHER. I KNOW WITH YOUR LINE UP IT WILL BE A GREAT SHOW.
DONA DODD KNOWS ALL ABOUT THIS, IF SHE REMEMBERS.

LOVE YOU DONA


ERNIE

I think Jerry was responsible for the start. I talked with Tommy and Donna in 2002 and they said we have a show in GA. After that the club was formed.