Songs with B- Benders?

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 4 Dec 2015 12:58 pm

Which other songs have nice B- bender solos?
Here's Dave Edmunds with an amazing solo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwFLdIQNelU

Dustin Rhodes · Post by **Dustin Rhodes** » 4 Dec 2015 1:02 pm

All the later Byrds stuff with Clarence White had good B-Bender stuff.

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 4 Dec 2015 1:11 pm

Yes it does!

Steve Hinson · Post by **Steve Hinson** » 4 Dec 2015 6:44 pm

"Willin'"on Linda Ronstadt's"Heart Like a Wheel"album...Bob Warford.

The record I think of when I hear the term"B-bender".

Steve Hinson · Post by **Steve Hinson** » 4 Dec 2015 6:46 pm

Forget to mention Herb Pedersen's"Lonesome Feelin'"album...

Mr.Warford plays on most of the songs on the album...

He's hard to beat.

Skip Edwards · Post by **Skip Edwards** » 4 Dec 2015 9:32 pm

Bob Warford...absolutely. One of the original B-bender guys.
Check out Michael Dinner's "The Great Pretender" LP, from 1974.
Also features Ed Black and Sneaky Pete.

Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 5 Dec 2015 10:40 am

Check out Bernie Leadon's great B-Bender solo on the Eagles "Peaceful Easy Feeling"... don't get no better'n that... Also just about any cut from Diamond Rio will have some good double (B & G) work on it.... JH in Va.

Quentin Hickey · Post by **Quentin Hickey** » 6 Dec 2015 5:56 am

Listen to Diamond Rio. He plays a double bender. They have some good songs too.

Richard Wilhelm · Post by **Richard Wilhelm** » 6 Dec 2015 8:35 am

"Coming into Los Angeles" Arlo Guthrie and Clarence White.

Chris Templeton · Post by **Chris Templeton** » 6 Dec 2015 6:55 pm

My favorite Clarence White B-bender solo on The Byrds' "Tulsa County": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_12IyhedQs

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 7 Dec 2015 1:32 am

Good old Albert Lee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi7CiMnTsIk

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 7 Dec 2015 8:20 am

Oh, geez, there are so many. Of course, tons of stuff by Clarence and Bob Warford - they wrote the book early-on. I saw Clarence with the Byrds in Boston in 1969 (with Flying Burrito Brothers opening) not too long after he put it on there. That Tele into (I believe I recall, but I was, let's just say, not completely on this earth at the time) a Dual Showman Reverb, it was stunning. But the first I saw his bender was on TV - Playboy After Dark in '68, there are clips on youtube, e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S97hGKNfIfU - I used to watch that religiously for the music, which frequently transcended the bizarre vibe of the show.

One of my favorites to this day is Albert on Dave Edmunds' Sweet Little Lisa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddD5yuAy6q0 - the whole thing was completely mind-boggling at the time - actually, it still is

Studio thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Rx-zaBjow

Zeppelin All My Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW4M9nVrijA

Live version of Zeppelin Ten Years Gone, showing Page's early-60s Tele with bender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8NXaYTi5fk

Jeff Porter · Post by **Jeff Porter** » 7 Dec 2015 8:28 am

Marty Stuart owns Clarence's Tele now. It's his main axe and he picks the hell out of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVMdwpcl3m4

Tony Trout · Post by **Tony Trout** » 7 Dec 2015 10:22 am

Jeff Porter wrote:Marty Stuart owns Clarence's Tele now. It's his main axe and he picks the hell out of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVMdwpcl3m4

Marty has owned that guitar since 1980. When he went to White's home and White's widow was selling some of Clarence's stuff - but Marty was more interested in the guitar and Susie knew it because she asked him, "You really want to see the guitar, don't you?" and he said, "Yes."

Well, to make a long story short, Stuart wound up with the guitar and some of Clarence's clothes for the (probably then-unheard of) price of $1,450.00.

Someone on Michelle's (Clarence's daughter) FB page the other day suggested that Marty give the guitar back to Michelle. However, she didn't agree with that logic. Her reply was, "I've lost far more precious things than that guitar. I'm not bothered that he has it." (Michelle's Mother, Suzy, and brother, Eric were (eerily) both killed in a car accident in the early 1980s. Clarence's father, Eric, Sr., is buried next to Clarence at Joshua Tree Memorial Park. I got the extreme pleasure of being in a band that opened for Marty and the FS back in '08. I also, finally, got to play "Clarence", a little before Marty went onstage that night for the second of two shows. He was very nice about the whole thing. My Mom, even at her age, got a little star-struck when Marty walked by her to get the guitar off of the guitar rack. LOL!!

I'm glad Marty has the guitar and that he's out there actually playing it and it's not sitting in a closet rotting away or something. I've often wondered what will happen to the guitar when Marty passes, though....

Mel Bergman · Post by **Mel Bergman** » 9 Dec 2015 4:43 pm

Check out any of Dallas Good's work in The Sadies.are a killer band, and this is a B Bender tour de force.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sP--pKxJOg

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 10 Dec 2015 1:38 am

This is very good! Thanks Mel.

Ray Harrison · Post by **Ray Harrison** » 10 Dec 2015 9:32 am

Al Bruno with Merle on "That's The Way Love Goes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhaju2pwrJg

Jeff Porter · Post by **Jeff Porter** » 10 Dec 2015 9:43 am

Keith Gattis & the Clarence-like guitar he built.
Nice footage here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adRJNEVV2ho

Jeff Porter · Post by **Jeff Porter** » 10 Dec 2015 9:51 am

...and the B Bender masterclass right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH1u5j-1QZw

Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 10 Dec 2015 10:46 am

Ray Harrison wrote:Al Bruno with Merle on "That's The Way Love Goes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhaju2pwrJg

Sorry Ray, as much as I loved Al that's not him on the Haggard Cut... It's Reggie Young on his Telecaster with no bender playing through an MXR Dynacomp compressor... He told all about the cut in an old Guitar Player interview some years back....JH in Va.

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 11 Dec 2015 1:06 am

Quentin Hickey wrote:Listen to Diamond Rio. He plays a double bender. They have some good songs too.

Lead guitarist for Diamond Rio, Jimmy Olander plays a double bender on his Telecaster. In 1994, Diamond Rio recorded a cover version of the Eagles' Lyin' Eyes" with Jimmy Olander playing the double bender

Frank Freniere · Post by **Frank Freniere** » 11 Dec 2015 4:39 am

David Hidalgo of Los Lobos puts down some B-bender-ish licks in open D on "One Time, One Night."

Jeff Garden · Post by **Jeff Garden** » 11 Dec 2015 6:02 am

Mel Bergman wrote:Check out any of Dallas Good's work in The Sadies.are a killer band, and this is a B Bender tour de force.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sP--pKxJOg

Thanks for tip on The Sadies, Mel. I just ordered a CD. That's a sweet little solo at 1:15 on the video you posted.

Dustin Rhodes · Post by **Dustin Rhodes** » 11 Dec 2015 8:44 am

Jerry Hayes wrote:
Ray Harrison wrote:Al Bruno with Merle on "That's The Way Love Goes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhaju2pwrJg
Sorry Ray, as much as I loved Al that's not him on the Haggard Cut... It's Reggie Young on his Telecaster with no bender playing through an MXR Dynacomp compressor... He told all about the cut in an old Guitar Player interview some years back....JH in Va.

Don't hear anything that screams bender but Young does have a bender in the tele he normally plays. Also that clip would make a good addition to the list of "reasons to not use a compressor".

Steve Hinson · Post by **Steve Hinson** » 11 Dec 2015 2:44 pm

Dustin Rhodes wrote:
Jerry Hayes wrote:
Ray Harrison wrote:Al Bruno with Merle on "That's The Way Love Goes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhaju2pwrJg
Sorry Ray, as much as I loved Al that's not him on the Haggard Cut... It's Reggie Young on his Telecaster with no bender playing through an MXR Dynacomp compressor... He told all about the cut in an old Guitar Player interview some years back....JH in Va.
Don't hear anything that screams bender but Young does have a bender in the tele he normally plays. Also that clip would make a good addition to the list of "reasons to not use a compressor".

I don't think Reggie had the bender in his black Tele when that album was recorded...he hardly ever ever used it anyway...I played in a band with Reggie for 2 or 3 years and don't recall ever hearing him use it once...

As for the compressor...Reggie was the first guy in country music to use that as an effect(remember Buddy Emmons on the"Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys Reunited album?Pretty"squeezey")rather than a limiter...it caught on in a big way...
we probably oughta cut him more than a little slack.