The Steel Guitar Forum

In my previous post about obscure REAL COUNTRY music, I got some great ideas and suggestions to check out. How about from 50's-70's era? I love shuffles, and of course, lots of good steel!!!
Thanks Jason

Jason,

Well, I see you're from Muncie. I attended Ball State many, many years ago. It was in the early 70's so everything's a blur due to chemical impairment.
I do remember that we referred to the town as "The only hole above ground". (In a loving way, of course). I think it was because of the weather.

My band plays a number of old classic country songs. I especially like Jimmy Day's steel on "Pick Me Up On Your Way Down".
I get off on that bouncy pickin' style.

One of my favorite songs to play on the steel is very simple, but effective. It's Charley Pride's "Kiss An Angel Good Morning".
Really rocks with my band as we're very Rockabilly.

Nice thread. I'll back off and let others chime in.

Tony
Steel Rockin' in Indiana!
Emmons LLII

Red Simpson. "I'm a Truck"

Anything by Mel Street...Lloyd Green on steel. Even the "classic country" stations don't play Mel's hits very often.

Jason, get Warren Smith's "Call Of The Wild"-cd on Bear Family! It contains all his Liberty recordings from the early 60's, mostly shuffles, and Ralph Mooney on all tracks. It doesn't get any better than that!
Jussi

Earnest Ashworth

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Milton C. Willmann

Jason,

There's so much good stuff that was recorded back then, we don't really have to delve into "deep catalog".

Here's some dandy old hit tunes (and they ain't all shuffles):

"We Could" Jimmy Dickens
"Another Bridge to Burn" Jimmy Dickens
"Baby I'm Ready" Carl Smith
"Deep Water" Carl Smith
"You're My Memory Number One" Ray Price
"The Other Woman" Ray Price
"City Lights" Ray Price
"Get While The Gettin's Good" Bill Anderson
"Wild Weekend" Bill Anderson
"Bright Lights and Country Music" Bill Anderson
"Searching" Kitty Wells
"Love is The Look" Connie Smith
"Once a Day" Connie Smith
"The Midnight Oil" Barbara Mandrell
"Tonight My Baby's Comin' Home" Barbara Mandrell
"Half a Mind" Ernest Tubb
"I'll Keep On Dreaming" Jack Greene
"All I Have to Offer You is Me" Charley Pride
"Borrowed Angel" Mel Street
"Close All The Honky Tonks" Buck Owens
"Don't Be Angry" Stonewall Jackson

And I haven't even begun to scratch the surface. There was so much wonderful, simple but innovative, steel work back in that era. What about Hall Rugg on all those Loretta Lynn songs? How about Lloyd Green on the early Tammy Wynette records? And you simply HAVE to hear Charley Pride's Live at Panther Hall album with Lloyd Green on it. And all those old Johnny and Jack and Kitty Wells records with steelers like Shot Jackson, Bob Foster, Johnny Sibert, Stu Basore, Harold Morrison (yes, Harold Morrison), and Buddy Emmons. Hey, somebody stop me before I get carried away...

Tim R.

Lloyd only played on "D-I-V-O-R-C-E", Pete Drake played on all the rest of Tammy's stuff.
Big difference between Pete and LLoyd.<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by KEVIN OWENS on 10 June 2002 at 05:01 PM.]</p></FONT>

You're right Kevin, BIG difference. I was specifically thinking of D-I-V-O-R-C-E when I made that reference. My goof.

Tim R.

Wow...GREAT list there Tim. I've heard most of them...will have to check out the couple that I didn't recognize.

I'll add a couple more Barbara Mandrell songs to the ones you listed: "Years" and "Standing Room Only". These two, along with the two that you listed are, IMHO, the 4 best I can ever remember her doing.

Lem

I'll also mention the following. Some extremely great music here, IMHO.

Cal Smith
David Wills
Doyle Holly
Freddie Hart
Moe Bandy
Roger Miller, besides his comical stuff, Roger had some of the best "classic" country recordings.
Wayne Kemp

Most of these would probably be in the latter part of your time frame, 50's-70's. However all the above put out some fantastic country music.