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"This Emptiness you Left; No Longer Fills my Chest"
""I don't cry the Tears, That I've cried for Years....I'm Much Better Now"....OMG.....
.....this is real life folks. You can hear/see me Feel this line; when I sing it with my Steel Guitar solo. Yes Been through all this; just like Dale has and many of you. Sing it; Hear it; Live it....don't ignore it and you Too will Continue On.
Great Song Dale....You'da man.

https://youtu.be/lvvJOrYXpRE
Ricky♠♦♣♥

Sounds great!

Nice, Ricky!

That is true artistry, Ricky.

That was some nice playing Ricky

Thanks Ya'll. Dale Really wrote some great songs about real Life...it was easy for me and him to feel it...he divorced one more than I did...I had 3 he had 4...well 5 now..bless his heart. Passionate guys live a hard life but you will always HEAR HEARTFELT Music from them...it is the therapy that keeps them alive and going.
Ricky

Great Ricky. Pure Country Music folks. Don't get any better than this. J.R. Rose

Real feeling and emotion is what makes music! You can't fake that. I love your playing and tone Ricky.

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That was great! Thanks for posting Ricky!

Lovely play Ricky, Kudos!

"Listen to this, honey, here's another guy who plays exactly as good as I don't!" -- me, to my wife.

--Al Evans

Thanks ya'll so much.
Al; ONLY compare yourself to your Self, is the only way to properly progress in a clear way to your self. It's NOT what you can't play compared to someone else...it's what you can't play comparted to what you are wishing YOU can play FOR YOUR SELF and then you are patting your own self on the back when you accomplish feats you have been trying to put out there from your self in what you hear from your self.
I will say I'm very lucky in my progression from the start; as I always played music with singer/songwriters who create their own music. So I have NOTHING To try and copy and they of course love for me to create something that fits what they are trying to portrait with their music.....(I've created all steel guitar on Dale Watson albums and now Miss Leslie albums(my ex-wife) and all Weldon Henson albums; as they wrote every song; and so I created all steel and dobro and singing harmony with them)> So even if you are playing a cover song....try and create in your ears what fits the conversation in the song and try to create that on your steel.
Ricky
Ricky

That's the way I've always thought, if I don't impress myself it doesn't matter, even if they like it and I don't, I'm not happy. Always have higher standards for yourself and if you achieve that, then you can take any criticism with no problem.

My occupation is landscape design and that's how I feel, very similar to music.

Goosebump time!

Nice. Really tasteful playing.

Thanks ya'll for the very uplifting kind words.
Something my next door neighbor and teacher guided me on(yes that was Tom Brumley my Teacher when I first started playing): "Ricky; listen to the song; feel the emotion they are singing about like it happened to you; then Show how it makes you Feel with the sound of your Steel Guitar".
PERIOD...!!!!That was one of the best instructions I've ever had; but the other one was from my next Teacher (yes that is Lloyd Green). : "Ricky; a Song is created by several or more musicians, all having a conversation together with their musical instruments; you can be apart of the conversation or not; you Choose". thanks Lloyd and I Chose to be apart of.
Ricky

Ricky Davis wrote: Al; ONLY compare yourself to your Self, is the only way to properly progress in a clear way to your self. It's NOT what you can't play compared to someone else...

I guess I should've put in some smileys or something. I'm not worried at all about my abilities compared to those of others. As I used to tell people back in my singer/songwriter days -- "For a singer, I'm a pretty good guitarist; for a guitarist, I'm a pretty good songwriter; for a songwriter, I'm a pretty good singer."



--Al Evans

I get ya Al...I guess I do understand and smile at those wording jokes...sorry....I seem to be living in anxiety these days...all my friends and mentors and etc...are passing away....
But remember; the horrible 1918 virus that killed millions; then what happened after that; Yes the ROARING 20's...then what happened after that?? Yes the GREAT DEPRESSION!!!.then after that and that and etc. Freakin roller coaster of life ups and downs; goods and bad; that's why our Heavenly Father put our spirits here in the bodies; so we can LEARN; you don't have GOOD without BAD....you can't go UP if you don't know DOWN....visa versa...and ETC....
Yes; so how do you like talking to a Mensa society member with a 155 IQ and degree's in Psychology and Sociology and born a over-sensitive empath and a instinct that already knows what is about to happen??? My MOM HATES IT and yells at me every DAY..ah..ha.
So we all better have some stuff we learned to tell our/your God when you pass...or you are in serious Trouble.... LOVE YA'S.
Ricky

Real fine playing Ricky. Beautiful tone coming out of that Sho-Bud. Great band! Tennessee Lee

Thanks Lee; Feel better Bro.
Ricky

Ricky, That's some great advice from Mr. Brumley and Mr. Green.

"I'm Much Better Now", Is a special feeling song, Right up there with Faded Love and Farewell Party.

As Mr. Jimmy Day once said, "Hook Your Heart To The Bar and Your Soul To The Pedals".
A divorce helps with state of mind to play it.
Been there and done that.

Thanks Bobby for the great assessment of heartfelt song....I agree and yes I've been divorced 3 times....and Dale 5 times; so we certainly know heartbreak; but good to know when you "Are much better now".
Ricky