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Does anyone know who played on this? It sounds like it has dobro and pedal steel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWCvitVLq8s

Thanks.

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Firstly, I don’t know who the steeler/Dobro player is. Secondly, I must have been in a fog and thought this was a Merle Haggard song. Beautiful rendition by The Browns! Thanks for posting Craig...Carl

Carl, you're correct, Merle recorded it and had a hit with it.

Craig,
I was curious to know who wrote the song and it was Lynn Anderson’s parents. I really thought Merle had written it. Great song either way. Thanks, Carl

10 February 1967 [14:00-17:00] RCA Victor Studio, 1610 Hawkins St., Nashville 3, TN – Browns (Jim Ed Brown, Maxine Brown, Bonnie Brown + Jerry Stembridge [gt], Jerry Reed [gt], Wayne Moss [gt], Weldon Myrick [steel], Junior Huskey [bass], Jerry Carrigan [drums], David Briggs [piano], Ray Stevens [organ]. Producer: Chet Atkins)
246 UCA4-2163 RIDE, RIDE, RIDE CAS 2142
247 UCA4-2164 COUNTRY BOY'S DREAM CAS 2142
248 UCA4-2165 ALL OF ME BELONGS TO YOU CAS 2142
249 UCA4-2166 WHERE DOES THE GOOD TIMES GO CAS 2142
250 UCA4-2167 I'M A LONESOME FUGITIVE CAS 2142

I just saw that Jerry Carrigan passed away on the 22 of June

That didn’t really sound completely like a dobro to me. It sounded like string bending on a six string guitar. I first thought maybe a resonator guitar but I wonder if it’s just the way the tone was set to get dobro sound.

Thanks for the replies.

Carl, yes, the song sounds like one that Merle could have written.

Peter, thanks for finding the session info.

Danny, I agree. I have heard of a "fingered" dobro which is is fretted like a regular guitar instead of with a dobro bar. Maybe that was the instrument played.

Peter, unbeknowens to me, that song was recorded on my Birthday

Fred, you need to record that and call it “The Fugitive From Justice”.

That sounds a lot like Weldon Myrick-it has a lot of his inflections and muted licks he used on many of his sessions with Connie Smith. The Opry stars tended to use the Opry musicians on their sessions.