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Circa 1964 or somewhere about. Just thinking this because Justin is ET's son and we all know of course that Buddy C was a Texas Troubadour. A great ballad, IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeaxOnSGIi4

I don't know for sure, but I doubt it. The playing isn't what I'd call "typical" Charleton stuff. There's a ton of voices and everything is awash in a sea of reverb, which mars the whole album, IMHO. Some other cuts on the same album remind me more of Pete Drake, but that song (and most of the album) could have been done by just about anybody.

Sounds like the early Charleton Sho-Bud tone to me.

I am guessing Pete Drake. He was doing a lot of studio work at that time. I saw him live about that time and this sure reminds me of him then. Just my guessing. J.R.

I have that album and it's one of my favorites. No credits on the back of course, but after a steel show middle Tennessee in the 90's I asked Lloyd Green who the steeler was. He said he didn't know but he took my mailing address. A few days later I got a handwritten letter from Lloyd telling me it was Jimmy Day.
If you want to hear a great steel break listen to "Love is no excuse"....smooth as glass.

Lately I've heard several records that sounded like somebody else,but turned out to be Jimmy Day...in the early- to mid-60s he was smooth as silk and as commercial as anybody on record...he fools me every time,because by the time I started playing steel,he was playing with Willie all the time and was a little more"free-spirited"...

SH

Regarding Jimmy Day, Steve is absolutely correct. Case in point is Skeets McDonald's recordings on the Columbia label, in the early 1960's.

Skeets was a west coast artist, and an early example of what later became known as "The Bakersfield sound". His recordings from the mid to late 1950's on Capitol Records featured Ralph Mooney on steel. Skeets was a friend of Ray Price and in September of 1961, Skeets did some recordings at Bradley's Barn, in Nashville, for the Columbia label. The recordings were produced by Don Law and Ray Price and included session work by members of the Cherokee Cowboys, as well as 'A-Team' players: Harold Bradley and Grady Martin on guitars; Tommy Jackson on fiddle; Hargus "Pig" Robbins on piano; and among others, Jimmy Day on steel guitar (sounding very much like Ralph Mooney); Oh yeah, and Johnny Paycheck on harmony vocals. These recordings were released on McDonald's album titled Call Me Skeets!

The feel of some of these recordings are definitely more Bakersfield than Nashville. From that recording, here are two example tracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8osdV9yBVM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a7GkpZhjyI

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn

Glenn,you are spot on re:Day’s tone/playing on the Skeets stuff...very Mooneyesque!

The intro on that second link Glenn posted is one of those standard Emmons licks. Buddy once said that he and Jimmy would play the jukebox and ask each other Is that you or me?