The Steel Guitar Forum

What happened @ 1:50?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpCpIh3LdDk

Pretty sure it's just a glitch in the YouTube. I, like many, learned that break back when the song was on the charts, and if that hiccup had been in there I would d*** sure have noticed it!

Right you are, Brint:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y41B-TAHy4

Who played that classic C6th?

It's Emmons and it's E9, believe it or not.

Jerry Overstreet wrote:It's Emmons and it's E9, believe it or not.

That's what I recall hearing. Also, "The Lady Takes The Cowboy Every Time".

I think Buddy had tab for Houston. Maybe on his old website.

I may have posted this before, but they recorded "Houston" in Florida and Buddy was driving back to FNashville he saw the saw the Space Shuttle Challenger blow up.

Jerry Overstreet wrote:I think Buddy had tab for Houston. Maybe on his old website.

Buddyemmons.com

I remember Buddy's rendition of I Love You Because on his E9 Expedition cd and I had a hard time believing it was E9th tuninig

I think most of "Houston" is played with the A&B pedals engaged which of course turns the E9th tuning into an A6th tuning; Or at least key phrases with those signature c6th sounds are played in a no pedals style, but with A&B engaged, if that makes any sense.

Tim wrote:I remember Buddy's rendition of I Love You Because on his E9 Expedition cd and I had a hard time believing it was E9th tuninig

Same here. A bit off topic, but anyone (maybe somebody living in a cave somewhere? LOL) that hasn't heard Expedition E9, it's incredible. It's the record that really got me interested in pedal steel. Textbook stuff... The whole thing is on YouTube:

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

Also available for purchase with tab at the link below.

http://buddyemmons.com/CEE9.htm

Buddy's tab for Houston is on the Buddyemmons.com website. It is indeed done on E9.

I stand corrected. http://buddyemmons.com/Houston.htm

I used to play it on C6. Back then I didn't know you could play C6 stuff on E9.

I was at Jeffran College in the early 1980's taking one of Buddy's seminars and he had just shown us how to play Houston on E9th. I asked him why he played Houston in the E9th tuning. He gave me a puzzled, knowing look, like it was a real stupid question, and said he did it because of the way it sounded. That opened my ignorant ears to the E9/13 tuning jazz sounds of the early swing players.

Garry Vanderlinde wrote:I was at Jeffran College in the early 1980's taking one of Buddy's seminars and he had just shown us how to play Houston on E9th.

I wonder if we might have been in the same class, Gary.