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Female PSG player

Posted: 30 Aug 2021 2:00 pm
by John Boyte
My friend showed me a video today of Elvin Bishop performing "Fooled Around and Fell In Love" with a female playing pedal steel guitar. He said it was Sheryl Crow. Anyone know?

Posted: 1 Sep 2021 1:48 pm
by Donny Hinson
Well, Sheryl does play some pedal steel, along with piano, bass, and guitar. But since I haven't seen the clip, I don't know if it was her. You can hear a little of Sheryl's pedal steel playing on this cut:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyihQtBes1I

Posted: 10 Sep 2021 4:15 pm
by Larry Allen
Strange Steel? Video??? :whoa:

Video

Posted: 11 Sep 2021 10:07 am
by Mark Draycott
I have seen this video. Maybe this is the one you were thinking of?

https://youtu.be/Z4RmgDa5_dI

Re: Video

Posted: 11 Sep 2021 12:21 pm
by Richard Sinkler
Mark Draycott wrote:I have seen this video. Maybe this is the one you were thinking of?

https://youtu.be/Z4RmgDa5_dI
He said it was Elvin Bishop. That's definitely not Elvin. But, that definitely looks like a younger Sheryl Crow. Cool video.

Posted: 12 Sep 2021 3:37 pm
by Kevin Mincke
Guitar doesn’t appear to be plugged in. Fender Maverick?
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Posted: 12 Sep 2021 3:54 pm
by Tucker Jackson
That's a lip-synched video... and I don't think it's Sheryl Crow. She doesn't have that gnarly tattoo on her shoulder.

Posted: 12 Sep 2021 4:00 pm
by Jerry Overstreet
I didn't think it looked like her either.

Posted: 12 Sep 2021 4:19 pm
by Tucker Jackson
There are two other steel players associated with Rod Stewart: Cindy Cashdollar and Robin Ruddy (toured with him on steel in the era of that video, 2007).

As far as I can tell, neither of them has a shoulder tattoo either.

In her own statements, Cindy says she doesn't play pedal steel (of course, the video is lip-synched, so maybe it's her and she's faking playing pedal steel... without her feet on the pedals).

Robin does play PSG... and even looks like the woman in that video, but I don't think it's her. Every picture I've found from that era has her tattoo-free too.

This might be a model brought in for the video shoot. She's using a Shubb bar and no finger picks -- which tracks how a non-PSG player would maybe do it.

Posted: 12 Sep 2021 5:26 pm
by Richard Sinkler
Right you are. Didn't pay attention to the tat.

As a side note, being from the SF Bay Area, I saw Elvin many times, and never did he have a steel guitar player that I can remember.

Posted: 12 Sep 2021 6:21 pm
by Paul Sutherland
In the track I hear typical A&B pedal movements, but her feet don't seem to be anywhere near the pedals. And actually I don't see any pedals or pedal rods, or volume pedal.

Posted: 18 Sep 2021 5:17 am
by G Strout
Maggie Bjorklund???? Don't think it's Robin Ruddy

Posted: 19 Sep 2021 2:53 pm
by Richard Sinkler
G Strout wrote:Maggie Bjorklund???? Don't think it's Robin Ruddy
Doesn't really look like Maggie to me. I'm a big Maggie Bjorkland fan. It would be nice to know. Maybe it's just an actress/model hired for the video.

Posted: 19 Sep 2021 5:40 pm
by G Strout
Her hand positioning tells me that if she is a model she at least has a handle on picking some steel or dobro.