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Can someone pease ID this steel player? I don't think it's Charleton although he had a black Sho-Bud w/ no end plates? Thanks in advance.

looks like BC to me. hard to recognize him without a hat in those days! love ET's expression

Who's the girl?

Patsy Kline.
Erv

Bob,I always thought it was Emmons,but upon zooming in,I'm fairly sure it's"The Big C"...

Hope you are well,my friend!

SH

Steve - I just wasn't sure without the hat but who else could cut that job? Plus everything else lines up: the time period / the black Sho-Bud no end plates / the right hand. I'm entering it as Charleton. Thanks again very much. All OK here. IDing ET photos at work.

Larry Hobson: I'm still laughing. Thanks! I needed that. Thanks to all for replying.

The Big "C" plays the black Sho-Bud no end plates on this:

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

robert kramer wrote:...Plus everything else lines up: the time period / the black Sho-Bud no end plates / the right hand...

...and don't forget the green 6 oz. coke bottle.

Your answers woke me up. Thanks again. The stage set is "The Pet Milk Grand Ole Opry" I missed that. Did some digging:

Nashville's WSM-TV "The Pet Milk Grand Ole Opry" August 7, 1962.

Also has to be Leon, too.

"You're Stronger Than Me" (Check out Charleton on C-6th)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

"So Wrong" (Charleton again!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6C03GydXsI

Wow, Bob, those two videos made my night. I heard Buddy C. play that lush-ballad-jazzy-C6th style in person in Virginia clubs in the mid-seventies but don't recall any recordings where he was able to that. Anybody know of any? (I've collected every scrap of Charleton's session work I can find, including the two Bear Family sets that have all the ET and Troubadours stuff and can't think of anything with that exact style). That was a style that Don West and Clyde Bloodworth were great at too, and they were playing those clubs then too.

That might be the best Patsy on video for my taste too, great stuff.

thanks!

Pete, Thanks for checking in. 10-4 on Charletion's C-6th style on these clips. The combination of Patsy and Buddy w/ Leon is something else. Possibly when he got to Nashville and on the Tubb band that sound wasn't called for in favor of ET's show plus what he was working up with Leon. There's the story of Tubb sitting in the hotel room listening to them shed those take off numbers. I'm going to look into Don West and Clyde Bloodworth. Thanks for bringing up those two names.

Ernest Tubb and the Droopy Drawers entertained at a local county fair many years ago.
I was amazed at the footwork of Buddy Charlton when he was playing the C6th neck, he was virtually dancing on the pedals.
Afterwards, I met all the guys and got their autographs on this picture. At that time Cal Smith and Jack Greens were both in the band.

I’ve got a copy of an old ET live show that someone taped on reel to reel in the audience. None of the slow pretty c6 stuff by all there great backing and instrumentals live. The tape came from Leon.