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Topic: Steel CD featuring R&B tunes? |
Leigh Howell
From:
Edinburgh, Scotland * R.I.P.
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Posted 23 Dec 2003 7:42 am |
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Has anyone ever done a cd featuring R&B tunes? That might be an interesting concept.
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Tommy Minniear
From:
Logansport, Indiana
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Posted 23 Dec 2003 7:55 am
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I have thought for a long time that the pedal steel guitar in the right hands would be a perfect match for a project like this. Hope somebody pursues it.
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Tommy Minniear
www.ntsga.com
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 23 Dec 2003 9:34 am
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| FWIW, it's sure not the whole CD, but I did record one R&B tune, "Our Day Will Come", on my first CD, "Finally Here". |
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Gord Cole
From:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 23 Dec 2003 12:52 pm
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| Leigh: See my reply on your RNI Georgia thread. --Gord |
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Billy Wilson
From:
El Cerrito, California, USA
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Posted 23 Dec 2003 3:53 pm
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| Leigh, check out Ray Charles' version of Little Milton's tune "I Feel So Bad I Feel Like a Ballgame on a Rainy Day" Buddy Emmons has an excellent ride in it. BTW Little Milton happeded to stop in at a gig I was playing at recently. I got to talk to him a bit. Seems like a very sweet cat. Bill W |
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Pete Grant
From:
Auburn, CA, USA
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Posted 23 Dec 2003 8:09 pm
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| I played steel on the R&B hit Lay Your Head on My Pillow on the Tony Toni Tone CD "Sons of Soul." I'm listed as "Pete Corant" -- well, close enough I suppose. |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 24 Dec 2003 7:25 am
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i mess around w: Dancin'in the Street, Shotgun, Chain of Fools, Poppa was a Rollin' Stone, Give it up-turn it loose
(on C6) there's a bunch of RxB tunes to be played |
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Dan Tyack
From:
Olympia, WA USA
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Posted 24 Dec 2003 9:32 am
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R&B is a pretty broad term, but many of the tunes I play on my CD Blackened Toast (available from b0b) I would classify as New Orleans R&B.
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Joe Goldmark
From:
San Francisco, CA 94131
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Posted 2 Jan 2004 11:01 pm
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Hi Leigh,
I've always felt that the steel worked well in R&B tunes, and I love that place where R&B meets C&W. Some examples would be Ray Charles, Dobie Gray, Shelby Lynne (I Am Shelby Lynne is awesome, but no steel), Tony Joe White, etc. In fact many of the great Mussel Shoals and Memphis players ended up in Nashville doing country sessions. As far as steel goes, Sneaky Pete played on some Stevie Wonder stuff, Sacred steel and Robert Randolph is breaking new ground, and you can ocassionally here steel on an old Spinners album, etc. Since I love that music, I've included a number of R&B tunes on my CDs over the years. These include: These Arms of Mine (Otis), Hey Girl (Freddie Scott), Third Stone From the Sun (Hendrix), Chuggin' (Lee Allen), Fantasy (Earth, Wind & Fire), You Are Everything (Stylistics) & John Henry (Buster Brown). I've also done some originals that I think are pretty soulful, if I may.
I'm always amazed at people and musicians especially, who only listen to one kind of music. God gave them special hearing abilities, why limit the scope? |
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Billy Wilson
From:
El Cerrito, California, USA
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Posted 3 Jan 2004 12:50 am
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| Actually, it was on a radio show with guest D.J. Joe Goldmark spinning steel guitar cuts of all kinds, that I heard that Ray Charles cut with B.E. Joe,when you gonna do another show like that? Billy W. |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 3 Jan 2004 3:02 am
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I absolutely love Blackened Toast.
Dan did a great job, the band is killer, the singer really knows the style AND Paul Franklin is a guest.
Vat's not to like!!
My copy was swiped by a piano player and now I need to order another. |
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John Macy
From:
Rockport TX/Denver CO
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Posted 3 Jan 2004 9:55 am
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Another thumbs up here for Dan's CD. Some of my favorite players are on that CD with Dan, and it sounds killer.
Bruce Bouton did some great stuff on a Maxwell CD a year or so ago. Total NY R&B/Pop. |
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