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Topic: Maggie Bjorklund |
b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Nic du Toit
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Posted 7 Mar 2011 2:21 am |
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There are a few samples on YouTube.
If "Dentist's waiting room music" is your bag, you'll love it.
Very basic steel fills...ambient kind of stuff...
America's answer to Anja?........
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David Wright
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Pilot Point ,Tx USA.
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Posted 7 Mar 2011 3:33 am
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I see she is playing in Tx,
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 7 Mar 2011 7:27 am
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| America's answer to Anja?........ |
Nic, did you mean Denmark's answer to Enya?  |
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Peter Nylund
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Finland
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Posted 7 Mar 2011 7:45 am
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Dave Van Allen
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Doylestown, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 7 Mar 2011 7:53 am
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| A pretty, slender, young, blonde pedal steeler with a Sho~Bud and a Fender amp... what's not to like? |
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John Floyd
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Posted 7 Mar 2011 8:07 am
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| Web Site says She's Danish |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 7 Mar 2011 8:32 am
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I like Enya, by the way. Lots of people do.
Like it or not, the public is more attracted to the pure sound of our instrument than to the hot licks of its virtuoso show-offs. Tone is what producers are after. I hear that in Maggie's online sound clips.
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 7 Mar 2011 8:55 am
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Based on what I heard on her website, I like her and her music a lot. It's a refreshing change from Steel Guitar Rag, etc. don't you think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4sUsJSHFPQ
Peter, on her site, she spells her last name BjΓΆrklund β¦.. |
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Dave Harmonson
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Seattle, Wa
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Posted 7 Mar 2011 12:54 pm
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I see she is playing a couple of shows in Austin right after shows I'm on so should be able to catch her. Missed her here in town.
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Dan Tyack
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Olympia, WA USA
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Posted 7 Mar 2011 8:22 pm
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I like it.
Like they say, if it's not BjΓΆrk, don't break it. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 7 Mar 2011 9:54 pm
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| That Sho-Bud sounds great too. |
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Shane Reilly
From:
Melbourne, Australia
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Posted 7 Mar 2011 10:02 pm
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Cool and stylish. The track with Mark Lanegan on her website is great.I'd go see her if I wasn't on the other side of the planet.
Cheers,Shane. |
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Stu Schulman
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Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 8 Mar 2011 7:31 pm
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That's really nice,I would buy that CD!I bought Enya's it makes me mellow. 
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Clyde Lane
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Glasgow, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 9 Mar 2011 3:38 am
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Not to hijack the thread, but did anyone notice there was no neck inlay on that PRO-1?
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 9 Mar 2011 7:09 am
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Clyde said:
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| Not to hijack the thread, but did anyone notice there was no neck inlay on that PRO-1? |
It appears she has more than one Sho~Bud Pro 1. The website pics show what appears to be a different guitar than on a YouTube video I saw. The one in the Video has no neck inlay and has the "Pro 1" decal on the front right that isn't on the one in her web pics.
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Pete Burak
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Portland, OR USA
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Posted 9 Mar 2011 7:59 am
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What kind of amp is that Fender?...
It looks too square to be a Twin, but to small to be a Super.
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edit: I guess I do see 4 speaker marks in the grill.
Super Reverb??? |
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Stu Schulman
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Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 9 Mar 2011 8:43 am
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Pete,It looks like a Pro Reverb?
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Stu Schulman
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Posted 9 Mar 2011 8:44 am
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Now I see 4 speaker marks...A chopped Super?
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Daniel Morris
From:
Westlake, Ohio, USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2011 3:06 pm
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I posted about Maggie's upcoming CD in the Event Announcements section, but I'll just move it here:
The (in)famous Bloodshot Records outta Chicago will soon release a CD/LP by a Danish steeler, Maggie Bjorklund. A few samples are there in the new releases player. Nice!!
http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/coming-home?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=OUT+NOW
Yer absolutely right, b0b. I find that people who may not care much for country music, or hot licks, find that pedal steel, in one musician's words, "can be so affecting it almost needs no accompaniment".
Not taking away from the Paul Franklin or the top pickers, just emphasizing our instrument's varied charms.
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Karlis Abolins
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(near) Seattle, WA, USA
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Posted 22 Mar 2011 4:52 am
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I got my copy of the CD in the mail yesterday. I am fascinated by her tone. Her playing evokes hints of influences by Bill Keith and Toy Caldwell among others.
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Karlis Abolins
From:
(near) Seattle, WA, USA
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Posted 22 Mar 2011 6:22 pm
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Back in the early 70's, Clarence White's string bending on the Byrds untitled album turned my head inside out in a good way. Clarence White's playing influenced my journey through music in a very positive way. His simplicity into complexity bends still echo in my mind. Maggie Bjorklund's playing evokes that same feeling. Single string bends that morph the movement of the music into new yet familiar directions turn my head inside out anew. I plan to listen to this CD over and over until I can assimilate some of her style.
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 23 Mar 2011 9:47 am
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I like it OK - she seems to be expressing what she wants to. Which isn't something I necessarily want to listen to, over and over.  But I can say the same for "Bud's Bounce" at fourteen-gazillion bpm's. What was the teen suicide rate again? I guess kids today do have a lot to be depressed over, for sure. |
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