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With Lloyds permission, I would like to present, "The White Light".

“The White Light”….he wrote it in 1990 and never recorded it until now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM7Fi2tqGo0

I would like to encourage your thoughts on this project.

It is by far, the most emotional composition of music I have heard, period!

In collaboration with Ricky Davis, he summed it up perfectly:

“ A Great Melody still can be written these days; as proven by Lloyd Green with this original composition written BY Lloyd Green.
With his captivating melody and movements in phrases; put me on the edge of my chair throughout the whole song. There is really no other steel guitarist that can do that to me”.

Credits:

Lloyd Green: Steel Guitar
Bass guitar (tic-tac) and vibes : Billy Sanford
Upright acoustic bass : Dennis Crouch
Rhythm guitars (multiple) : Russ Pahl
Engineer and Producer : Russ Pahl

Nice.

Thanks Jack....It is, in my opinion, one of the finest compositions.

Just beyond unbelievable Beauty. Thanks Lloyd for All the great music thru the years and even now today; for this refreshing composition and your delivery is unsurpassed.
Ricky

No word can describe the magic this man holds. Great tune with excellent moves, tone and execution.

definitely one of the tones that addicts one to the steel guitar.

WOW!! What a beautiful arrangement. The melody is so pure and clean, the notes just seem to float together.

Magnificent! Thank you, Lloyd.

Man! That is really great. Have it down on my favorites list. I noticed he had a lot of fender
Amps in those pictures. T.L.

chris ivey wrote:definitely one of the tones that addicts one to the steel guitar.

+++++1

WOW!! That is absolutely stunning. What a soulful song. I love it. Do you know what steel and amp he was using? Thanks for posting, J.R.

I was privileged to hear Mr. Green play this song at St. Louis a few years ago. I recorded his set on a small cassette player.

He said his inspiration for the song was Tommy White. Absolutely beautiful...

Ha! John Billings sent me this link today, in an email...GREAT STUFF! Keep'em coming, Lloyd...I love your playing/writing!

Lloyd you most definitly comunicate with your Gaurdian Angel, that was beautiful !
But just once Id like to see a giant mustache on YOU !!! Kinda like Sam Elliot the cowboy
All in fun ...

Craig

JR

LDG Sho-Bud and a 1968 drip-edge Fender Twin with 1 15” D-130 JBL

Correction

LDG Sho-Bud and a 1968 drip-edge Fender Twin with 1 15” D-130 JBL

Beautiful!

Michael McGee wrote:Magnificent! Thank you, Lloyd.

Ditto ....Appropriate and well expressed Mike. I agree!

This tune will reach out and grab you.
I've listened to it none less than 20 times or more since I discovered it here yesterday.
Its just that good.

Hey guess what. Lloyd is the only player that can play like that,so don't get your hopes up. You or myself will never play that well and sound that good. We can try, but most of us won't even come close.
Tommy.....

Tommy Auldridge wrote:Hey guess what. Lloyd is the only player that can play like that,so don't get your hopes up. You or myself will never play that well and sound that good. We can try, but most of us won't even come close.
Tommy.....

Gosh, that was uplifting, thanks....

What a gorgeous example of why we love this instrument so much...Lloyd has been an inspiration to many of us from the beginning of our musical endeavors and remains so today...Thanks for posting this Charlie...

Just had a listen to this on my iPhone in a break on my gig this evening. Lloyd is a master player - discarded way too prematurely by the Nashville machine - and one who still has the most creative mind of them all.

Yes Charlie, I agree with your second post. Thanks for your reply. It just has that Sho-Bud, Fender Twin Sound. Nothing else like it. J.R.

The list of countless recording stars in the 60s, 70s,80s and on, can contribute their success to this man, "Mr. Nashville Sound".

And, not to mention the 1000's of aspiring steel players who spent ALOT of time trying to figure out what was going on with these melodic arrangements.

Not only is Lloyd the epitome of an innovative eminence on the steel, he is equally representative of a sagacious population in the music industry.

We still have Lloyd with us and he is still putting these kind of arrangements together.

As Walt Stettner put it, "It is Hauntingly Beautiful".