Ben Banville
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Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 21 Mar 2012 8:47 am |
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OOPS, what was i thinkin'? this is the link!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fM_jnS-MjY
it's the same...thanks a million, guys! brett, i haven't heard the record version, will have to locate that one. i could listen to a hundred different versions and not tire of the song!
dave, s.f. is a small town, so chances are good i've seen your brother, but, i don't know anyone named Mudgett...is he a steel player too? anyway, thanks very much for the info.
when i was a kid in the mid fifties (yeah, the gray is comin' in) i used to watch a show (on black n' white tv) called the bunkhouse boys. it was all locals in moncton, new brunswick, kickin up a storm with fiddles, steels, pianos n' guitars, and that's when i first heard "that high lonesome sound". i came down to the states back in '62 and settled in fitchburg mass. my second year of college, '69, i remember hearing judy collins sing "someday soon", and that's the second time i recall hearing that beautiful sound! how well i remember the goosebumps!!! it was just recently that i realized it was buddy emmons on pedal steel. i could swear i heard a different version (maybe the single release) than what was on the album. there's a particular riff emmons played right at the B minor that's so distinctive i've never forgotten it, kind of like a slight pause before plucking the notes. it's definitely not on the album version, which makes me wonder if i hallucinated the whole thing.
here's the only footage i could find of the bunkhouse boys...a very bad copy, but check out the pedal steel guy at 7:40...kinda cool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PupqW_fr1DI |
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