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Here's a video of Jim Loessberg with Ray Price from 2009 that shows a melody played simply and with expression is not technically challenging, but infrequent and always eloquent.

CAVEAT: Jim is among my dear pals and one of my musical heroes.

Release Me

Very tasteful player.

You are right Herb. Jim is one of the most tasteful players I know.
He can sound like Buddy Emmoms or more important, he can sound like Jim Loessberg.

He is also my pal and is one of the greats that sadly, not many people know.

What cought my ear was the voice of Ray at eighty something years old. Sound almost as good as his younger days.. AND 4 Fiddles.....WOW... Lee

Nice Herb thx for posting. I am able to catch Jim on the TV show TRU Country weekly. Release me with Ray is really nice.

Quality & touch show without having fast licks and fancy runs.

Very tasteful indeed ! Wonderful touch to produce great tone.

Very nice!

Nice wraparound... and sweet picking.

Jim is one of my heroes also (like you are Herb), and deserves more recognition among our community. I am proud to call him friend. He even trusted me to sub for him with Ray one time, one of the highlights of my life!

Billy Easton

It's a shame, but "doing a lot with a little" seems almost a lost art these days.

Thanks Herb..for all of it. I needed that.

At first listen, it sounded like the whole ride may have been played with just two pedals.

Great! What amp is Jim using?

Nashville 400

I think Jim uses a Nashville a lot, but on this show it was a Standel custom xv. I heard this show on the radio when it happened and asked Jim about what he was using because it sounded so good. He said it was one solid state Custom XV along with an earlier hybrid tube/solid state, Imperial combo I think.

Jim's playing certainly tugs at my heart-strings. I refuse to leave the TSGA Jamboree until Jim's final set is over. With me, he rings the same bells as did Buddy Emmons. Thanks Herb for posting. I had to replay it several times before I could return to the forum even though I had played it before dozens of time.

In the comments on YouTube some guy said, "Great steel player. He could pass as a professor or perhaps a GM vice president."
YES, Professor Loessberg.

Great player, nicer guy. Amazing to me how he goes from this to some of the cleanest melodic single string jazz licks played. Right up there with Buddy I'd say.

I have been honored to play bass with him on some of the shows. AND, He knows the best Mexican restaurants in his town too. Wish I could get there more often.

Thanks for posting, Herb. Really enjoyed that. Nothing like an Emmons.

Herb, what size "attaboy" do you wear?

Bill Cunningham wrote:I have been honored to play bass with him on some of the shows. AND, He knows the best Mexican restaurants in his town too.

That would be quite a gig. Mr. Loessberg is hard to beat.
(You could say, Loess is more.)

Thank you, my good friend Herb, for posting the clip and thanks to everyone for the nice words. The amp is a Standel Custom, which is a hybrid of tube power and solid-state EQ, without reverb, that preceded the Super Custom XV. I think the amplifier is a 1963 model.

It is a very low-power amp and except for the recording studio, Ray's gig was the only one I could use it on for a live performance since Ray played very quiet. (Inside band joke: "Ray says he knows you're too loud because he can hear you!")

For all other live gigs I use a stock Nashville 400. I also own a Super Custom XV, but I prefer the sound of the hybrid. The Super Custom XV doesn't have enough power for most live situations either.

Best wishes,

Jim

Just a beautiful and very musical moment Jim!

Very cool !!!

Thanks for the posting Herb... and thanks for the playing Jim.

Chris "Tiny" O.

Great Video, made my night, Thanks Jim,....and Herb for posting!