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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 13 Apr 2010 3:58 pm |
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from The Advocate's review of Jakob Dylan's new CD:
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| Greg Leisz’s ethereal pedal steel guitar haunts nearly every song. |
... and then again in the review of new She & Him CD:
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| She & Him arrangements, shaded by multilayered background vocals, dreamy steel guitar and orchestral strings, are lush but never heavy. |
It seems that pedal steel is hot new sound that everyone needs on their pop CD. 
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Richard Damron
From:
Gallatin, Tennessee, USA (deceased)
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Posted 13 Apr 2010 6:29 pm
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 14 Apr 2010 4:14 am Re: Steel in Current Pop CDs
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| b0b wrote: |
from The Advocate's review of Jakob Dylan's new CD:
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| Greg Leisz’s ethereal pedal steel guitar haunts nearly every song. |
... and then again in the review of new She & Him CD:
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| She & Him arrangements, shaded by multilayered background vocals, dreamy steel guitar and orchestral strings, are lush but never heavy. |
It seems that pedal steel is hot new sound that everyone needs on their pop CD. |
As it was in the 1970's. 
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Roger Rettig
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Posted 14 Apr 2010 4:58 am
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Looks like we've come full circle....
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Dave Ristrim
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Whites Creek, TN
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Posted 14 Apr 2010 5:32 am
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Bob, thanks for posting info like this. I've been so darn busy lately I haven't had time to keep up on the cool new releases. I guess it's time to visit iTunes and get some new stuff in my iPod.
I have the first releases by She & Him and Jakob Dylan. If these new ones are as good or better I'll be happy. |
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Marc Jenkins
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 14 Apr 2010 7:04 am
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| The new She & Him is really nice. Great steel on a few tunes, but more importantly, really fantastic production. |
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Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 15 Apr 2010 9:41 am
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I haven't heard any of their CD's but the band called "Wilco" appeared on one of the late night TV shows a couple of weeks ago and had a pedal steel player with the band. I also saw them on Austin City Limits but they had no steel on that show....JH in Va.
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John Scanlon
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Posted 15 Apr 2010 1:44 pm Wilco, etc., steel
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Wilco is a break-off from the vein of "alt.country" that enjoyed a resurgence in the 90s which is still alive today. The now-defunct, 3-piece band Uncle Tupelo are considered by many to be the fathers of this (renewed) movement. Wilco's main guy was half of the creativity in Uncle Tupelo. The other half, Jay Farrar, enjoyed a good run in his band Son Volt after U.Tupelo split, and then went solo. Wilco is a little more "rock" and a little more experimental.
Other bands of note in this vein are Whiskeytown, Ryan Adams, The Jayhawks, The Bottle Rockets, Blue Mountain, Lucinda Williams, Caitlin Cary, Alejandro Escovedo, the Old 97s, and more recently, The Drive-by Truckers, to name a few. Steel is featured prominently on many of the releases by this crew.
This is all along the lines of 70s "country rock" like Parsons-era Byrds, Burrito Bros., NRPS, Poco, etc. This is what turned many of us "younguns" like me (35) onto the steel in the first place. It's more common these days than one would think. |
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Steve Broatch
From:
Newcastle, England
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Posted 15 Apr 2010 2:06 pm Re: Wilco, etc., steel
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| This is what turned many of us "younguns" like me (35) onto the steel in the first place. It's more common these days than one would think. |
Too right John! I'm 34 and love all that stuff. Listening to The Jayhawks and Wilco in the mid '90s opened my eyes to country music and how diverse it can be. |
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John Scanlon
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Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2010 2:17 pm young'uns
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Glad to know I'm not alone, Steve. I also think our faction of the steel fraternity would share the general feelings of our, ahem, more experienced peers on here regarding "new country" and whatever makes up what is thought of by many as today's cliche' Nashville sound. (I'm not intending to inject my personal views about that right now, though.) Point being, we probably all have much in common.
I like following Mickey Adams vids on YouTube for this purpose (as well as his great instruction) -- he'll do a song by Ernest Tubb, followed by one by the New Riders. And all his 6-string vids are Jerry, Jerry, Jerry. I love it.
Another current steeler discussed on here - Eric Heywood, currently with The Pretenders I understand - came from that family tree of alt-country bands I mentioned. |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 15 Apr 2010 5:23 pm
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