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Topic: Elton John Country Comfort |
Brendan Mitchell
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Melbourne Australia
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Posted 14 May 2010 10:22 pm |
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| What a great song , I am guessing it would be Gordon Huntley on steel ? |
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Brad Bechtel
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 15 May 2010 9:50 am
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| I've never heard it. |
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 15 May 2010 10:30 am
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I like the version on Earl Scruggs and friends ,GREAT CD  YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.
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Brendan Mitchell
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Melbourne Australia
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 15 May 2010 7:33 pm
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| Thanks, Brendan! That brings back great memories. |
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John Roche
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England
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Mike Poholsky
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Kansas, USA
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Posted 16 May 2010 5:55 am
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Great steel solo! Another instance where a solo is not complicated, but fits the song perfectly. Performed flawlessly.
That whole record is a masterpiece, music & lyrics. One of my top 5 records of all time. Before Elton went totally pop.
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 16 May 2010 6:48 am
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| Didn't Rod Stewart also do this song? |
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Olli Haavisto
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Jarvenpaa,Finland
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Posted 16 May 2010 7:04 am
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| Mike Poholsky wrote: |
Great steel solo! Another instance where a solo is not complicated, but fits the song perfectly. Performed flawlessly.
That whole record is a masterpiece, music & lyrics. One of my top 5 records of all time. Before Elton went totally pop. |
So true. I only recently bought the pre-giant-glitter-glasses and feathers-period albums.
Tumbleweed Connection, Madman across the Water, Honky Cat, my first EJ records...
Perfectly crafted pop music...
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 16 May 2010 10:27 am
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Thanks Brendan. It reminds me of "You Can't Hide Your Lying Eyes".
Nice steel solo. I can't make up my mind about Elton John. He has some great songs, but when I've listened to his LPs there's a lot of mediocre stuff in between. |
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 16 May 2010 10:36 am
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I left YouTube playing after the song completed and it went on to play "Your Song", which to my mind is a much better composition and cries out for a steel guitar. In fact, 90% of Elton John's numbers would benefit from a steel guitar, and probably a fiddle.  |
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Mike Poholsky
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Kansas, USA
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Posted 16 May 2010 10:40 am
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Alan, I understand what you're saying. Get ahold of the "Tumbleweed Connection" CD. The whole thing is a great piece of work. IMHO.
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Godfrey Arthur
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3rd Rock
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Posted 3 Dec 2014 9:18 pm
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Country Comfort
Available on the album Tumbleweed Connection
Music: Elton John
Lyrics: Bernie Taupin
Piano and vocals: Elton John
Acoustic guitar: Caleb Quaye
Acoustic 12 string guitar: Les Thatcher
Steel guitar: Gordon Huntley
Violin: Johnny Van Derek
Bass guitar: Herbie Flowers
Drums: Barry Morgan
Harmonica: Ian Duck
Backing vocals: Dee Murray, Nigel Olsson
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Jerry Van Hoose
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Wears Valley, Tennessee
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Posted 4 Dec 2014 3:35 am
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Brendan, thanks for mentioning this song by Elton John as well as providing the "easy link". It was a favorite of mine, brings back great memories.
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Mark van Allen
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Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Brint Hannay
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 4 Dec 2014 9:40 am
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| Juice Newton did a good version. Dan Dugmore, Jaydee Maness, and Doug Livingston (a/k/a Earnest Bovine) are credited for steel on the album. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 28 Sep 2015 4:41 pm
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never cared for elton.
and that solo is ok but nothing to rave about tonewise or in confidence of delivery.
steel has come a long way since then in tone and execution. |
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Les Cargill
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Oklahoma City, Ok, USA
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Posted 28 Sep 2015 5:29 pm
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| chris ivey wrote: |
never cared for elton.
and that solo is ok but nothing to rave about tonewise or in confidence of delivery.
steel has come a long way since then in tone and execution. |
I literally grew up on that stuff - that was my practice material for piano lessons for a couple of years.
Love/hate Elton, the Elton John Band was a great place to learn how. Dee Murray was the best bass teacher I ever had. And in most cases with Gordon on an Elton song, Gordon played sparingly - there was usually 35 pounds of tracks in a five pound bag on those records. It's on the record for the A/B pedal stuff. His producer (Gus Dudgeon) loved all that distortion on everything, or maybe people's ears were a little "anesthesized." Meh, for "Tumbleweed" it was probably just a poor recorder.
I always liked that song for the Englishisms in the lyrics - "the herdsman with his torch" in the middle of a Nashville sounding pseudo country song  Tumbleweed's kind of one of those records, at least for me. Weird little songs. |
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Damir Besic
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Nashville,TN.
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Posted 28 Sep 2015 10:25 pm
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| chris ivey wrote: |
never cared for elton.
and that solo is ok but nothing to rave about tonewise or in confidence of delivery.
steel has come a long way since then in tone and execution. |
what steel?
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Bill Sinclair
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Waynesboro, PA, USA
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Posted 29 Sep 2015 6:32 am
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[quote="Les Cargill
I always liked that song for the Englishisms in the lyrics - "the herdsman with his torch" in the middle of a Nashville sounding pseudo country song Tumbleweed's kind of one of those records, at least for me. Weird little songs.[/quote]
Re:Tumbleweed Connection I always felt like Elton John and Bernie Taupin must have listened to "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and decided to make a whole album of that stuff.* Turned out to be an interesting English take on the American frontier sort of concept album. Weird little songs or not, I don't think there's a clunker in the bunch. "Come Down In Time" stills breaks my heart.
*Please note: These are my personal internet musings and have no factual basis!  (Before I start a rumor). |
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Chris Walke
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St Charles, IL
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Posted 30 Sep 2015 9:16 am
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| Bill Sinclair wrote: |
[quote="Les Cargill
I always liked that song for the Englishisms in the lyrics - "the herdsman with his torch" in the middle of a Nashville sounding pseudo country song Tumbleweed's kind of one of those records, at least for me. Weird little songs. |
Re:Tumbleweed Connection I always felt like Elton John and Bernie Taupin must have listened to "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and decided to make a whole album of that stuff.* Turned out to be an interesting English take on the American frontier sort of concept album. Weird little songs or not, I don't think there's a clunker in the bunch. "Come Down In Time" stills breaks my heart.
*Please note: These are my personal internet musings and have no factual basis! (Before I start a rumor).[/quote]
I agree on Elton/Bernie referencing the Band with this album. Lead off track (Well-Known Gun) is absolutely killer, great plodding groove, much like the Band's Up On Cripple Creek. Just the way that song moves from the intro into the first verse makes the entire album worthwhile, in my opinion. |
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