Jimmy Day

Johnny Cox · Posted 2 Jul 2012 3:04 pm

My favorite Jimmy Day record is still "Steel and Strings". Nobody but Jimmy play a simple melody and yet tear your heart out.
Tommy, do you remember when we were kids use to chase Jimmy and Buddy all over Nashville?
Man I wish they'd hurry up with that time travel technology.
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Tommy White · From: Nashville

Johnny,
I remember like it was yesterday. What a great time for us and pedal steel guitar.
We've witnessed so much history and discovery my brother. How fortunate we have been and still are! Hope all is well with you and Joan.
Love and peace,
TW

Ted Solesky · From: Mineral Wells, Texas, USA

I spent a day with Day! He was a true gentleman. He did some classic rides. I tried to copy some of that feeling in my learning years. It's something God instills in you. Jimmy had it. Ted

Barry Blackwood · Posted 3 Jul 2012 7:08 am

Jimmy most certainly had it. He was the first of the 'major' steel players I met on my musical journey, and I still have my Sho-Bud with D9 to prove it, fifty+ years later.

Alan Harrison · From: Murfreesboro Tennessee, USA

I was so fortunite to hear Jimmy play back in the mid 1980's when Jeff Newman had his June Jams in Watertown Tennessee. Jimmy was on the list of great steelers who played. Darn I miss Jeff, Jimmy and all of those great players we have lost over the last 25 years...
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Whip Lashaway · From: Monterey, Tenn, USA

I don't remember what year it was, way back, but Jimmy feel in love with my wife! He would josh around and ask me to take there picture together. He asker her that first time if she had a favorite song that he could play for her. She couldn't think of anything right then so he suggested Bb Blues. When he did his set that day at the convention, he dedicated it to her. Every time we saw him after that, for years, he would always do Bb Blues and dedicate it to her. What a tremendous individual as well as talent. BTW, that same year at the convention, Jimmy Crawford accused me of marrying up! I think he was right. I never blamed Jimmy Day for falling in love with my wife....same thing happened to me. Miss both of those Jimmy's. Whip
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Al Miller · From: Waxahachie Texas

Tommy thanks for this thread ! I never had the honor of meeting Jimmy Day in person but one of my fondest child hood memories was when I went over to the late Don West house for a lesson one evening and he was on the phone with Jimmy and handed the phone to me and on the other end was JIMMY DAY !! Needless to say it was a very special moment for a very proud 14yr old kid:) .. I will never forget that evening !! . Buddy Charlton once told me and my dad that he thought in his opinion Jimmy Day was the best steel guitarist of our time . Very kind words from a heavy such as Charlton ...
Thanks again
Boo Miller
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Don Euton · From: Texas, USA

I saw Jimmy Day at the "Stampede Ballroom" in Houston,Tx.,in about 1968, while he was playing with Willie Nelson. Willie introduced the Band, and during an instrumental, they all started playing each others instruments. Jimmy played his steel,the bass, and another guitar, and a couple other Band members moved to the drums, but no one sat down at Jimmy`s steel, during that part of the show.
One of my favorite Ray Price albums," Ray Price Sings A Tribute To Bob Wills, San Antonio Rose ", was released in 1962. Jimmy Day played on all songs. It is Bob Wills songs with EXPRESSION.

Don Euton

Corky Tittle · From: Georgia, USA

I'll try to make this short. Got to know Jimmy when I was working with Pete Drake and we became friends. That same year was my first "DJ" convention and Jimmy and I were side by side for four straight days (and nights) non- stop. We hit every roomin every hotel that had a steel guitar and set of drums, i walked around with my sticks, and Jimmy had his picks. The year I think was 1969. In 1973 (or so) I had formed a very self destructive relationship with one Dr. Snapp, as had many of my friends, and decided to leave Nashville. I went back to Key West Fla. and hooked back up with a guitar player and friend Eddy West. Me, Eddy, Jeff Newman Bob Woods, and Harley Alsup came to Nashville as a band ('nother story) Anyway was working the American Legion with Eddy and got a call from Day, and he came down to play with us for a couple of months. I am one of the most fortunate people on earth in that I got to spend that time with him. We would be playing a ballad, and he would take a cut, and it would be so soulful that I would literaly loose my place, he could actually make you cry, but more importantly (and finally to the point) he was without doubt one of the most beautiful human beings that God ever blessed us with. I miss you my friend and can only hope to see you again.

Barry Blackwood · Posted 11 Jul 2012 1:54 pm

Dr. Snapp? Confused

Steve Hinson · From: Hendersonville Tn USA

Before he died,Pee Wee Rogers gave me TWO copies of a picture of him at age 30,leaning on Dr.Snapp's sign post and smiling,with his Ray-Bans on...
When I asked him why he gave me two copies of the same picture,Pee Wee replied"in case you lose one"...

I'm looking at both of them right now...

Rest easy,pal.

Herb Steiner · From: Spicewood TX 78669

Those of us who've had the pleasure... and the occasional heartache... of knowing Jimmy well all have our stories about this great man; they could all be told for hours upon hours. I'd like to share one of my many Day experiences with the Forum. I may have told this before, I don't remember, but please indulge me if I have.

Jimmy passed away in January of 1999. I was gonna fill in for him with Craig Dillingham's band on NYE, but the gig never came off since Jimmy was too sick to do it anyway. Lynn Owsley brought the bus down from Nashville for the funeral, Buddy Jennison was with him and I think Jeremy was with him also. Marilyn was a total basket case so Lynn and I basically worked with the funeral director as to how the visitation room looked, where Blue Darlin' and his HOF plaque was displayed, things like that.

The day of the funeral came and the very large chapel was packed to the rafters with the crowd spilling out into the hallway. People who hadn't seen each other in decades were reminiscing, Rev. Dave Rich was fixing to make his eulogy, and Jimmy's music was being piped over the sound system.

I was in the visitation room and it was time to wheel the gurney carrying Jimmy's casket out into the chapel. The funeral director said, "Mr. Steiner, please carry the guitar behind the casket."

Lemme tell ya, I almost lost it. Jimmy and I always had this joke between us because when I'd show up at one of his gigs, he'd ask me to sit in. I'd always say "aw man, I'm not fit to carry your case." He'd reply "no, you are and I wish you WOULD carry my case!" Then we'd both laugh.

Now here I was carrying Blue Darlin' for the last time behind the casket holding my friend, teacher and hero. I'm not too proud to admit that I started tearing up at the request. Sad

After the funeral I loaded the guitar into the bay of Lynn's bus and rode to the burial site with Jimmy's brother and two sisters, his daughter Marla, and Rev. Rich's daughter Necie. Jimmy's siblings had no idea about his significance in the world of steel guitar. They knew he'd played with Elvis and Ray Price, but since he was kind of the black sheep of the family (or at least that's the impression I got), they had no idea about his humongous impact on the world of music or the thousands of musicians of all instruments he'd so profoundly impacted. I told them of my opinions on how significant their brother was to the world of music.

I think that day they fully understood how great a musician and human being Jimmy was.
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Steve Hinson · From: Hendersonville Tn USA

Reckon Jimmy knew Dr.Snapp?

Buck Reid · From: Nashville,TN

Thank you Tommy for remembering a true icon in the world of Steel Guitar. Here are some pictures of Jimmy and I playing together at the old Top Rail club in Dallas,TX (1986) with John Anderson. After the show I mentioned to Jimmy how I struggled with the "Day" setup. He just looked at me and said... "that don't matter to me". I felt like I was in heaven that night and I loved his sense of humor. I miss him and his kindred spirit.

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Tommy White · From: Nashville

Great photos Buck. Thank you for sharing. Just a little side note,
Jimmy and I share the same birthday. That was always special to me. Smile

John Hawkins · From: Onalaska, Tx. on Lake Livingston * R.I.P.

For you nice folks that are posting on this thread remembering Jimmy I though I would post the link below in case you might not have viewed the permanent page that b0b set up that Jimmy's brother Joe wrote about his little brother . I was priviledged and authorized to send this document on to b0b by Joe Day so that the permanent page could be constructed. Joe Day is a very fine person that I have known a very long time and who attends our Church in Livingston , TX. I am blessed to call him my friend .

http://b0b.com/jimmyday.htm

I hope you all will enjoy the article.I hope this is the way to get to the forum article .
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John Hawkins · From: Onalaska, Tx. on Lake Livingston * R.I.P.

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John Hawkins · From: Onalaska, Tx. on Lake Livingston * R.I.P.

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