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Topic: Who's the Steeler on this album? |
Ian Sutton
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 25 Aug 2009 7:11 am |
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I dove headlong into some great 60's country can't figure out who's playing the steel on this album. To me it sounds very much like either Tom Brumley, or someone copping Tom's licks. Does anyone know who this is? Thanks.
http://www.amazon.com/Wheels-Tears-Kay-Adams/dp/B0002B16EG
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 25 Aug 2009 11:53 am
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| Ralph Mooney was on a lot of her stuff, but I don't know about that particular LP. |
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Ricky Davis
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Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 25 Aug 2009 4:09 pm
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Alot of it sounds like Jimmy Day to me. Doesn't sound like Tom Brumley to my ears.
Great sound from that era....they certainly don't make music like that anymore.
Ricky
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Tore Blestrud
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Oslo, Norway
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Egil Skjelnes
From:
Meland,Frekhaug
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Posted 27 Aug 2009 1:42 am
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Walter Stettner has a soundclip on his Lloyd Green tribute site,and there it says Lloyd on at least one,or some of the tracks.
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Jeff Evans
From:
Cowtown and The Bill Cox Outfit
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Posted 27 Aug 2009 3:51 am
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The backing on every song here is absolutely classic ’60s Bakersfield country and honky tonk. Cliffie Stone, of Town Hall Party fame, produced the sessions, featuring hot players like Telecaster master James Burton and influential California pedal steel man Ralph Mooney, all in the Buck Owens-Merle Haggard west coast style that helped to keep a harder-edged sound alive during a time when most Nashville country was all slicked up with strings and background choirs.
The last part of Wheels and Tears settles into a series of heartbreak songs that reveal the depth of Adam’s vocal abilities: crying steel guitar and slower tempos are a perfect setting to show off yet another facet of a singer who should, perhaps, take her place now alongside Loretta, Tammy, and Connie in the pantheon of 1960s female country singers.
By Kevin Macneil Brown
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1618 |
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Gregg Galbraith
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Goodlettsville,Tn.,USA
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Posted 27 Aug 2009 8:23 am
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I hate it when what claims to be the "definitive" review of a record is riddled with so much mis-information! I listened to all 10 song samples, and I have yet to hear anything that even remotely reminds me of Mooney. While it may indeed be Ralph, I never heard him play anything like that before or since.
And though the project may have been recorded in Bakersfield, It certainly doesn't sound like "typical" mid-60s Bakersfield to me. |
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 27 Aug 2009 8:40 am
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The LP in question was apparently recorded in Hollywood over 2 days in May, 1966. No personnel listed, but I wouldn't think Lloyd Green would be operating in Los Angeles in 1966.
I haven't listened to this LP. Mooney was on some recordings Kay made earlier in 1966 and also in 1967.
24 May 1966 [no 12897] Capitol Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine St., Hollywood 28, CA – Kay Adams (Producer: Cliffie Stone)
020 60665 BIG MAC ST-5033
021 60666 LITTLE PINK MAC Tower 269/ST-5033
022 60667 SECOND FIDDLE ST-5033
023 60668 WALK THE FLOOR ST-5033
024 60669 THE WORST IS YET TO COME ST-5033
25 May 1966 [no 12899] Capitol Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine St., Hollywood 28, CA – Kay Adams (Producer: Cliffie Stone)
025 60672 BIG, BIG DAY TOMORROW ST-5033
026 60673 SIX DAYS A-WAITING Tower 329/ ST-5033 ST 5069 4-94919-2
027 60674 THE REASON WE'RE TOGETHER ST-5033
028 60675 OLD FASHIONED CRY ST-5033
029 60676 THAT'LL BE THE DAY ST-5033 |
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Tore Blestrud
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Oslo, Norway
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Posted 27 Aug 2009 11:17 pm
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To me it does not sound like Moon, Lloyd or Day.
Could it be Leo LeBlanc, he did a lot of recording on the west coast.
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Jeff Bradshaw
From:
Leslieville, Alberta - Canada
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Posted 28 Aug 2009 11:30 pm
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| It is very pretty playing... |
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Billy Carr
From:
Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 29 Aug 2009 2:38 pm psg
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| Don't know who it might be. Sounds like he studied Brumley though back then in the 60's. |
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