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Michael Snellin
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Essex, UK
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Posted 8 Jun 2011 8:40 am |
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Andy, thanks, so did Johnnie learn the steel guitar in later life.?i just love there interpretations,of the old classics.
mike. |
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Kevin Brown
From:
England
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Posted 8 Jun 2011 12:59 pm
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| wheres the darn play button !! boy thats some cheese board of a record collection there, pass the wenslydale gromitt ! |
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Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 9 Jun 2011 7:17 am
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Michael, Johnny might have always played steel too but Santo was the man on their recordings.
Andy, one of my favorites of their's was a tune called "The Breeze and I". I don't know what album it was on but I can still hear the wondeful steel guitar sound in my head..........JH in Va.
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Don't matter who's in Austin (or anywhere else) Ralph Mooney is still the king!!! |
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Michael Snellin
From:
Essex, UK
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Posted 10 Jun 2011 4:11 am santo and johnny
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Hi,Jerry, yes you are dead right THE BREEZE AND I, is one of my favourite,s! Wonderful Rendition,
regards |
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Frank Welsh
From:
Upstate New York, USA
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Posted 13 Jun 2011 11:55 am
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| Jerry Hayes wrote: |
Michael, Johnny might have always played steel too but Santo was the man on their recordings.
Andy, one of my favorites of their's was a tune called "The Breeze and I". I don't know what album it was on but I can still hear the wonderful steel guitar sound in my head..........JH in Va. |
Jerry, "The Breeze and I" is on their second album, "Encore" with the album cover showing a pair of hands playing over a Fender triple neck Stringmaster and it is the first Santo & Johnny album I ever bought way back then and it got me started on steel guitar. "Teardrop" is also on this album, along with Alabamy Bound, Over the Rainbow, Lazy Day, You Belong To Me, Annie, Old Man River, Venus, Deep Purple and Prisoner of Love. These renditions are packed with emotional expression and have a vocal quality which is what Santo wanted to express: his steel guitar literally "sings" to you
To my ear it's one of the most beautiful albums ever made. I recall reading somewhere that Santo credited the recording engineer for much of the almost other-worldly steel guitar sound on that album. The tone, including the reverb, was something I could never reproduce with my own triple neck Stringmaster no matter how many dials I twisted on the amplifier (or tried to imitate Santo.) |
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Andy Volk
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Boston, MA
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Posted 13 Jun 2011 5:41 pm
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| Yep. Santo's expressive single note playing stays indelibly carved in memory while the playing of many much more accomplished and technical players drifts away in that breeze. |
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Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 13 Jun 2011 7:28 pm
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Frank, thanks for the album info. Do you know if it's available on CD or not?........JH in Va.
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Don't matter who's in Austin (or anywhere else) Ralph Mooney is still the king!!! |
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Frank Welsh
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Upstate New York, USA
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Posted 14 Jun 2011 5:04 am "Encore"
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