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Jimmy Day At Atlantic Records 1973
Posted: 30 Dec 2020 1:20 pm
by Charles Kurck
Pedal Steel Great Jimmy Day
NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 1973: Pedal steel great Jimmy Day play his pedal steel guitar in a recording session for Willie Nelson
in February 1973 at the Atlantic Records studio in New York City, New York. (Photo by David Gahr/Getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/peda ... ostpopular
Posted: 30 Dec 2020 2:23 pm
by Frank Freniere
Great picture!
Cool pants. Or pajamas.
Posted: 30 Dec 2020 2:33 pm
by Roger Crawford
Pajamas.
Posted: 30 Dec 2020 2:42 pm
by Dave Zirbel
That is a cool shot...and the album is really great. This must have been for The Troublemaker, which in my opinion has some of the most soulful and heartfelt steel playing on it! Dang near brings me to tears...Thanks for sharing it!
dz
Posted: 30 Dec 2020 3:40 pm
by Jack Stanton
Also could have been Shotgun Wilie sessions
Posted: 30 Dec 2020 5:24 pm
by Dave Zirbel
Also could have been Shotgun Wilie sessions
Yeah true...the internet says both were recorded at Atlantic in Feb 1973
Troublemaker was done in two days apparently 😳
Posted: 30 Dec 2020 6:28 pm
by Dave Zirbel
Is he playing a permanent or fingertip in that photo?
Posted: 30 Dec 2020 6:48 pm
by Jerry Overstreet
Cool shot. Sho-Bud right? But what are the graphics on the left end?
Posted: 30 Dec 2020 6:50 pm
by Dave Zirbel
Yes Shobud.
Posted: 31 Dec 2020 7:56 am
by robert kramer
Here's "She Not For You" from these sessions. If you know of a better steel guitar track, please let me know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6trhU23ULq4
Posted: 31 Dec 2020 5:00 pm
by Lee Dassow
Say I noticed that the first 3 pedal rods are closer together than the other six. Could that be custom made for him specially, or is that the way Sho-Bud manufactured them.
Tenn.Lee
Appreciate
Posted: 31 Dec 2020 8:27 pm
by David Zornes
Charles I like and appreciate your sideline under your picture and the statement under your post. Good witness.
Posted: 31 Dec 2020 9:43 pm
by Skip Edwards
Lee, that's the way they were on Fingertips, and I think maybe also on Permanents.
Posted: 1 Jan 2021 4:22 am
by David Ball
My permanents have the narrower spacing on the first three pedals too.
Dave
Posted: 1 Jan 2021 9:13 am
by Mike Perlowin
Dave Zirbel wrote:That is a cool shot...and the album is really great. This must have been for The Troublemaker, which in my opinion has some of the most soulful and heartfelt steel playing on it! Dang near brings me to tears...Thanks for sharing it!
dz
I agree about The Troublemaker. The steel playing on it, credited to "James Clayton Day," is absolutely exquisite.
Posted: 1 Jan 2021 9:29 am
by Olli Haavisto
Shotgun Willie came out in `73.
I bought it 3 years later and spent days on end playing along with it with my first steel.
Listened to it today...timeless stuff!
Posted: 1 Jan 2021 9:37 am
by Olli Haavisto
Shotgun Willie came out in `73.
I bought it 3 years later and spent days on end playing along with it with my first steel.
Listened to it today...timeless stuff!
Posted: 1 Jan 2021 6:46 pm
by Jerry Overstreet
I'll ask again. Can anybody read the graphics on the left end of Jimmy's guitar?...or know what they might say?
Posted: 1 Jan 2021 7:25 pm
by Mike Flick
Possibly a sho bud logo, a spade, and Jimmy Day on the front?
Posted: 1 Jan 2021 7:36 pm
by Mike Flick
On closer look it is "Blue Darlin"
Posted: 1 Jan 2021 8:13 pm
by Jerry Overstreet
Thank you Mike. That makes sense. I couldn't get a decent look at it. So, do you think that's a spade there in the middle?
Posted: 1 Jan 2021 9:19 pm
by Mike Flick
I read on the forum that he had a spade inlay on one of his guitars so that was more an educated guess. Pretty sure about the Blue Darlin' in script on the key head side though. Looks like a roman numeral III after it.
Posted: 5 Jan 2021 10:27 pm
by Greg Milton
The original photo has a few beer bottles on the ground around him (Heineken, I believe). Now, that I can really relate to
