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MOCKIN' BIRD HILL-FAVORITE SONG I PLAY ON LAP STEEL

C. E.

I like to play along to BJ Thomas.......In the garden. Nice and slow for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj6ql4gtOEE

If not "Route 66," then "Blue Light Boogie" by Louis Jordan.

Our Spanish Love Song

"Killing the Blues"

The band I'm with plays a fair amount of Rockabilly type stuff, and adding steel to that is a blast. But if we're talking instrumentals - Panhandle Rag is always fun, but I think my favourite to play is Redskin Rag (named, as we all know, by someone who spent too much time in the sun). Actually I think Leon is credited with it.

Fast song - Roadside Rag Slow song - Love Letters in the Sand Like Mac Wiseman would it.
Joe Elk Central Ohio

Estralita

Sand in B11th - Song by Hawaiian composer Andy Iona

Joe Elk wrote:Fast song - Roadside Rag Slow song - Love Letters in the Sand Like Mac Wiseman would it.
Joe Elk Central Ohio

Joe, I agree with you Mac Wiseman is a great singer of that and all songs.

My favorite for today is "Little Brown Gal"...just something about that lilting melody that makes it fun to play, for me.

Don Kona Woods wrote:Sand in B11th - Song by Hawaiian composer Andy Iona

+1 for "Sand"

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C. E. Jackson wrote:MOCKIN' BIRD HILL-FAVORITE SONG I PLAY ON LAP STEEL

C. E.

I remember Mockingbird Hill, great song, I play it on the dobro in standard G tuning, key of D but my favorite on the dobro is Wabash Cannonball at about double the speed of Oswald and a lot fancier. Favorite on lap steel is Georgia Steel Guitar in E tuning, key of G

Take Me Out to the Ball Game or Body and Soul

"Harbour Lights" is my most favourite tune on my lap steels. In the Key of D, on the A Major tuning, the song lays beautifully on the fretboard. Harmonics are great.

Geo

Thanks to all for your great favorites. In my teenage
years, the 1950s, we had no TV, and my only source
of steel guitar music was radio. Some of my favorite steel
players were Don Helms, Little Roy Wiggins, Pete Kirby,
better known as Bashful Brother Oswald, and the
steel player for Red Sovine. Thus, my early exposure
to many different steel players was limited, and
therefore many of my favorite songs to play on
steel were, and are, from the late 1940s and 1950s.

C. E.

Texas Playboy Rag - at the moment.

I agree with George: "Harbor Lights"
I remember one time I was playing in a club in Phoenix with a group for a birthday party.
A lady comes up and says: "I don't suppose you know how to play "Harbor Lights", and I said yes".
We played that song for her and she was so thrilled she cried or maybe it was just my playing.

I don't play a lot of lap steel, but my favorite to play is Send Me the Pillow that Doug B. does on YouTube.

My mood changes daily, but right now I am enjoying playing
"St Louis Blues" (Doug Beaumier's arrangement) -that tune really lays well on the C6th and its mood fits lap steel perfectly IMHO, and "Lovesick Blues" (Roy Thomson's version)-a fun song to play to get that old Hank Williams sound on C6th also. People really seem to enjoy those two tunes when I play them at the nursing homes. I figure a part of the purpose of this thread is to get ideas about songs, so I am sharing my current "favorites"

"And You And I" by Yes

There are many favorite tunes I play on the lap... BUT if I had to chose one .... it would be Joanne that I learned from Roy Thomson, a great lap steel player from Nova Scotia

Steffen Gunter wrote:

Don Kona Woods wrote:Sand in B11th - Song by Hawaiian composer Andy Iona

+1 for "Sand"

+2 for "Sand"

William Hoff wrote:"And You And I" by Yes

I have not played that on steel since the 1970's

great prog rock choice!

Sleepwalk for me. It is the only steel guitar recording to sell over a million copies, and it never fails to make me feel a whole lot younger.

Ron [/b]