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Topic: Most Top Steel Players on an Album? |
Eric West
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Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 23 Dec 2007 4:03 pm |
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I think I've got one that's first place...
How about this one...
I got it in my Xmas Stocking from a good friend.
For edumacation purposes only..
I'm reading Julian Tharpe, Lloyd Green, Maurice Anderson, Jimmy Day, Hal Rugg, Doug Jernigan, Buddy Emmons, Speedy West, Curly Chalker, with Jimmy Bryant on guitar..
Wow!
I was expecting more along the lines of a lump of coal..
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George Redmon
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Muskegon & Detroit Michigan.
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Posted 25 Dec 2007 12:35 am
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| My good buddy, and forum member Dave Burley produced that LP. I was at the club when all those players played together. A little place called "The Horse Shoe Lounge" in Muskegon Michigan.Dave will have to tell you the year, i don't recall. Dave put on some great steel shows back then. Most memorable is the Julian Tharpe Jimmy Bryant show up here in michigan. |
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Kyle Everson
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Nashville, Tennessee
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Posted 25 Dec 2007 10:17 am
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This is a great album. Here is some more info:
“Slide” – Featuring 10 Steel Guitar Players
(Jimmy Crawford, Lloyd Green, Paul Franklin,
Bill West, John Hughey, Hal Rugg, Larry Sasser,
Doyle Grisham, Jeff Newman and Weldon Myrick.
Each player does 2 songs each. It was special
because as each player did his song, the other
players would do fills and parts to accompany him.
This project was the last produced by Pete Drake.
1. “Tara’s Theme”
2. “Canadian Sunset” (Weldon)
3. “If”
4. “Mack The Knife”
5. “It’s All In the Game”
6. “True Love”
7. “Moon River”
8. “Blueberry Hill”
9. “Sincerely” (Weldon)
10. “If I Didn’t Care”
11. “Sleepwalk”
12. “Lady of Spain”
13. “September Song”
14. “Winchester Cathedral”
15. “Nighttrain”
16. “My Blue Heaven”
17. “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore”
18. “Days of Wine & Roses”
19. “Mona Lisa” |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 25 Dec 2007 10:19 am
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The Nashville Bar Association with Jimmy Cradford,Buddy Emmons,Sonny Garrish,Russ Hicks,and John Hughey is a good one.DYKBC.
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 25 Dec 2007 11:51 am
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George.
It might have been a separate gathering, with similar people, but Mr Green recalls:
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| That album was NOT recorded at a live show which the gentleman averred. It was recorded in a very mediocre Nashville recording studio, Nashville Sound Studios, and engineered by someone named Jim Cotten. I believe the studio was in the old Faron Young building on Division Street, just down the street from the former Hall of Fame Motor Inn. -LG- |
Lloyd was the only one that played E9 on it of course, having shelved the "other neck" a couple years earlier.
I've listened to it over and over here lately, and it's really fantastic. Speedy was certainly identifiable, Maurice played well, as did the other greats. Curly seemed to want to go faster than the drummer , and Lloyd more than covered everything on E9.
Sadly 5 of the Steel Players, and 7 of the totality have passed.
Jimmy Bryant, Louis Belsen John Gore, and Henry S certainly provided a top platform.
Certainly a nice Xmas gift.
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 25 Dec 2007 1:27 pm
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I bought The First Time when it was first issued. I suspect one or two of the steel players wish they hadn't collaborated on this. The commentator gets the names out of synch at one point, and Doug Jernigan's portions are severely distorted. Jimmy Bryant's playing is awesome as ever and Louis Belson is superb as one would expect.
Julian Tharpe pays little heed to timing as was his style, and he puts a little homage to Lloyd Green in at one point by copying a lick that Lloyd put in earlier.
If the album had been better engineered it would have been a much better project, but the sound engineer must have fallen asleep not to pick up on the distortion.
I had an interesting conversation about this album with Reece Anderson many years ago. I played it on a tape while I was driving him to a gig and he told me about the conditions in the studio and what the whole thing was like to play on. |
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Mike Sweeney
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Nashville,TN,USA
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Posted 26 Dec 2007 8:25 am
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The "Operation Russless" CD has some of the best in the business on it. Don Helms, Doug Jernigan, Ron Elliott, John Hughey, Joe Wright, Larry Sasser, Randy Beavers, Johnny Cox, Russ Hicks and Lloyd Green. I was also privileged to be on one cut. This CD is fast becoming a collectors item.
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scott murray
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Asheville, NC
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Posted 26 Dec 2007 10:45 am
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George Redmon
From:
Muskegon & Detroit Michigan.
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Posted 26 Dec 2007 6:51 pm
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They all played together at the "Horse Shoe Lounge" not sure if this was what recoreded....but something was recorded that afternoon..i do remember that. And these same players were there. Not sure if Lloyd or speedy was there that afternoon or not. Can you ask Lloyd Eric? I recall the show all these guys did in Muskegon Michigan at the "Horse Shoe Lounge". There was this single ShoBud amp, that everyone wanted to play through. As i recall it turned out to be the worse sounding amp on stage. Maybe Dave Burley can chime in here, and give us a little history about this LP, and the show that these guys all played together?  |
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Larry Bell
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Englewood, Florida
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Posted 26 Dec 2007 7:24 pm
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I'm pretty sure "It's the First Time" is a studio recording. Probably wouldn't be a union time card and that quality of recording if it were a live show. I think they did several of those shows at The 'Shoe in Muskegon. Dave Burley did put together some incredible casts of characters. I was there for one, but it was my understanding (seems like from Dave B and Frank Rogers, whose father owned the local music store and was involved as well) that the recording is a Nashville studio recording. I worked in a studio in Kalamazoo, MI where the owner had possession of some studio tapes from that time -- he played them for me. I don't know whether he ever did anything with them -- and, for that matter, who actually owned them -- I kinda assumed Dave Burley owned them). I saw Julian, Buddy, Reece, Doug, Jimmy Day -- along with Jimmy Bryant, Strzelecki -- can't remember the drummer -- maybe Buddy Harman -- in '75 or '76 or so. Opening act was Freddy Fudpucker. 
It was so cool to see all of those guys playing together. The solo stuff is cool, but the ensemble stuff would knock your socks off.
Like George says, maybe Dave or Frank will see this and elaborate. It was a life altering experience for a kid who had been playing steel for a couple of years at most. 
-- oh and Jim Cotton was a local Nashville music store owner and jazz guitarist. I used to take guitar lessons at his store. I'd also heard he was involved but never knew the exact capacity.
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