The Steel Guitar Forum

This must have been done a hundred times in the past... This may be the wrong place if so please move it.. I want to collect the ten - twenty Steel songs and either find their Music sheet or work a chord sheet up on them.. Can anybody steer me in the right direction?


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Chet Force
Carter D-10
Nashville 1000
Adrian, Michigan

ALMOST TO TULSA HAS GOT TO BE IN THE TOP TEN SOMEWHERE!! recorded and wrote by the great buddy charlton....
BOO

Tough question.
Here's my Top 10 - Not neccesarily my favourite songs to play or hear, but nonetheless:
- Sleepwalk
- Steel Guitar Rag
- Way to Survive
- Texas Playboy Rag
- Boot Heel Drag
- Panhandle Rag
- Together again
- Danny Boy
- Crazy Arms
- Midnight in Amarillo

-John

Draggin' The Steel
B.Bowman Hop
Georgia Steel Guitar
Southern Steel Guitar
Texas Steel Guitar
Roadside Rag
New Fort Worth Rag
Bar B.Q. Rag
Saturday Night Rag
Redskin Rag
Cherokee Steel Guitar
Steelin' Home
Steelin' Away
Stainless Steel
Steel Guitar Jubilee
Steel Strike
Truck Driver's Ride
Midnight Ramble
When Two Worlds Collide
Hub Cap Role
Speedin' West
This Ain't The Blues
Bustin' Through
too but a few..........

All of those plus .... Am I the only one who plays Steelin the Blues? Or Sargent's (?) Stomp?<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Barbara Hennerman on 19 July 2002 at 05:09 PM.]</p></FONT>

Come on Ray...How can we leave out "Steelin' The Blues" and "Blue Steel Blues".

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kd...and the beat goes on...

Thanks Folks.. Heres what I got, I know the X's... Now the search goes on..

New Fort Worth Rag
X Oklahoma Stomp
X Panhandle Rag
Redskin Rag
Roadside Rag
Saturday Night Rag
X Sleepwalk
Southern Steel Guitar
Speedin' West
Stainless Steel
Steel Guitar Jubilee
X Steel Guitar Rag
Steel Strike
Steelin' Away
Steelin' Home
X Steelin the Blues?
Texas Playboy Rag
Texas Steel Guitar
This Ain't The Blues
X Together again
Truck Driver's Ride
X Way to Survive
X When Two Worlds Collide


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Chet Force
Carter D-10
Nashville 1000
Adrian, Michigan

Remington Ride
Liberty Drive
Curtain Call
Boot Heel Drag
I Love You Because (slow)
I Love You Because (uptempo C6th)
The Preacher
Little Rock Getaway
3 Wheel Drive
What A Friend We Have In Jesus
Cocoanut Grove
Cherokee
Undecided
Raisin' The Dickens
September In The Rain
Misty
Look At Us
Once In A While
Ten Thousand Years
Farewell Party
Sawed Off Shotgun
Bud's Bounce
We Could
Shenandoah
Beulah Land
There's Something About That Name
Wayfairing Stranger
Georgia Steel Guitar
In The Mood
Woodchoppers Ball
Whoops, gotta do "Nightlife"
Those would make a pretty nice set.

Jerry<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jerry Roller on 20 July 2002 at 12:48 PM.]</p></FONT><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jerry Roller on 20 July 2002 at 12:50 PM.]</p></FONT><FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jerry Roller on 20 July 2002 at 12:53 PM.]</p></FONT>

Here's the list... Plenty to work on
Thanks a ton for you input..

4 Wheel Drive
B.Bowman Hop
Bar B.Q. Rag
Beulah Land
Blue Steel Blues
Boot Heel Drag
Boot Heel Drag
Bud's Bounce
Cherokee
Cherokee Steel Guitar
Cocoanut Grove
Crazy Arms
Curtain Call
Danny Boy
Draggin' The Steel
Farewell Party
Georgia Steel Guitar
Georgia Steel Guitar
Hub Cap Role
I Love You Because (slow)
I Love You Because (uptempo C6th)
In The Mood
Liberty Drive
Little Rock Getaway
Look At Us
Midnight in Amarillo
Midnight Ramble
Misty
New Fort Worth Rag
Nightlife
Oklahoma Stomp
Once In A While
Panhandle Rag
Raisin' The Dickens
Redskin Rag
Remington Ride
Roadside Rag
Saturday Night Rag
Sawed Off Shotgun
September In The Rain
Shenandoah
Sleepwalk
Southern Steel Guitar
Speedin' West
Stainless Steel
Steel Guitar Jubilee
Steel Guitar Rag
Steel Strike
Steelin' Away
Steelin' Home
Steelin the Blues?
Ten Thousand Years
Texas Playboy Rag
Texas Steel Guitar
The Preacher
There's Something About That Name
This Ain't The Blues
Together again
Truck Driver's Ride
Undecided
Way to Survive
Wayfairing Stranger
We Could
What A Friend We Have In Jesus
When Two Worlds Collide
Woodchoppers Ball


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Chet Force
Carter D-10
Nashville 1000
Adrian, Michigan

another precinct heard from :

Faded Love
A Maiden's Prayer
Roly Poly
Tom Cattin'
Steel Guitar Polka
I Love You So Much It Hurts Me
Wild Mountain Thyme
Mansion on the Hill
Where or When
Idaho
Moritat
Caravan
San Antonio Rose
Indiana
Rose City Chimes
I Overlooked an Orchid

and on and on and on....
<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 20 July 2002 at 07:04 PM.]</p></FONT>

Ask 1000 steel players , you'll get 1000 dif answers!

Yes ask someone that dosn't play steel and see how long the list will be. You know they will say Sleepwalk,maybe The Steel Guitar Rag.WE NEED A NEW STEEL HIT! Boy I wish I could come up with some thing,but Im not that good. Maybe one of the top guns could do it.A number that would be big and sell and sell. Then everyone would know what a STEEL GUITAR is,Wake up Joe -I must be dreaming

Well, to be the devil's advocate, no wonder the steel guitar is dying. Almost all the tunes listed are 40 years old or more. There are many great players recording cool new instrumentals if anyone cares. At least go back to Lloyd Green's output, or Jimmy Crawford (and Russ Hicks), or how about Buddy Emmons' fairly recent "Triple Play".
Hal Rugg, John Hughey, Al Brisco, Jim Cohen, all record nice originals. Why do we live in the past so much?

Joe, you hit the nail on the head!
JJ www.steeljj.com

And don´t forget - Joe G. has recorded some very nice original tunes too!

I love steel guitar instrumentals too (even if I find them a bit depressing becuase they're so far above MY skills). But steel is really a bad instrument, and to me shines its best complementing a song and a vocalist. The new Hillman and Petersen CD (Way Out West) has some great steel.

Quote: "But steel is really a bad instrument"

Huh??? <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Steve England on 12 August 2002 at 01:19 PM.]</p></FONT>

I caught that to Steve, I just thought it was a typo..

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Chet Force
Carter D-10
Nashville 1000
Adrian, Michigan

Let's not forget:SAND,SERENADE TO NALANI,WALTZ TROPICAL,COME A LITTLE CLOSER,STRANGER ON THE SHORE,ESTRALITTA,COCOANUT GROVE,MEMPHIS BLUES,BYRD'S NEST,THEME FOR A D.J.,SURPRISE WALTZ,REMANISING,MOON OF MONACOORA,and CORN CRIBB! (Keoni Nui) "Big John"