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Topic: Song from The Lost Notebook of Hank Williams. |
James Kerr
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Scotland, UK
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Posted 14 Oct 2012 9:22 am |
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An unrecorded song from the Lost Notebook of Hank Williams. As a life-Long admirer of Hank Williams, and my Father before me, I just had to give this a go, even though it meant singing to do so, but you will just have to put up with that.
http://www.youtube.com/user/kerrsteel
I hope some enjoy.
James. |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 14 Oct 2012 9:49 am
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Excellent, James. The lap steel sounds very much like what Don Helms would have played, and you have the right sort of voice for the song.  |
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Larry Phleger
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DuBois, PA
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Posted 18 Oct 2012 5:12 am
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| Great job on a lost treasure. Did you play the steel part on the National in the video? |
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James Kerr
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Scotland, UK
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Posted 19 Oct 2012 12:27 pm
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Thank you both for your interest in my recording of the Lost Hank song, and sorry to be so long in my reply, I didn't get any notification of your posts, it happens sometimes.
Larry, I did play all the Steel parts all the way through on the National (Replica) way up there in Don Helms land above the 12th. I build all these Guitars myself and this one has a Single Coil Pickup with great clear response up there, its nothing fancy, just something I bought on Fleabay for little money.
James. |
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Larry Phleger
From:
DuBois, PA
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Posted 19 Oct 2012 1:11 pm
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| Hi James. I am a lifelong fan of Hank Williams and as I said before, I really enjoyed your performance. I too am a lap steel builder. I play a national T8 console. I have built a 10 string lap steel using an old Carvin pickup. My current project is a Double 10 using pickups I hand wound. Your guitar in the pictures looks like a National and sounds really great. |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 19 Oct 2012 3:09 pm
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Yes, I too have built many lap steels over the years. I think it originates from the fact that, when I was young in Birmingham, it was almost impossible to buy a steel guitar in Britian, so we all built our own. 
Basil Henriques's (a fellow Brummie) first steel guitar had a pick-up from a telephone microphone. My first lap steel was made out of an old door, with Meccano parts, model railway rail for frets, and an old RAF microphone under the bridge. It didn't sound too bad. 
I once built a pedal steel entirely in wood, with a wooden mechanism and dowling for pull rods. It never stayed in tune.  |
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Larry Phleger
From:
DuBois, PA
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Posted 20 Oct 2012 7:01 am
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| I once built a pedal steel using clothes hangers threaded to 4X40 for pull rods. It worked pretty well, but I later canibalized it to build a console non-pedal guitar. |
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James Kerr
From:
Scotland, UK
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Posted 21 Oct 2012 12:27 pm
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You guys are making me laugh, and I think music, and the making of it should be fun. I listen to a lot of the Country Music of today (not from Nashville)usually called Alt Country, and I hear a lot of Instruments which clearly are not $5,000 Instruments promoted by big name makers, but they add so much character to the sound.
I have a Lap Steel Guitar supplied in 1931 to a Pioneer on the Canadian Prarie, by the New York Academy of Music. I have given the story of this Instrument in the Forum before and I hope to feature it on my next You Tube, its not shiny, has no decoration being a Student Guitar, but it has a voice, a voice from the past which I think should be heard.
Thank you all for the pleasant comments.
James. |
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Benjamin Kelley
From:
Iowa, USA
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Posted 21 Oct 2012 12:33 pm
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Excellent! Thank you!
Cheers,
Benjamin
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If I die trying I will steel the world one honky tonk at a time. |
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Vince Luke
From:
Iowa, USA
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Posted 21 Oct 2012 7:53 pm
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Nice job, Mr.Kerr!
Alan Jackson did the music for those lyrics as part of the 2011 compilation CD The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams. Jackson did a nice job of maintaining a Hank-like feel, and this is a heartfelt rendition by Mr. Kerr. Good stuff, and nice faux National!
Vince |
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