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Topic: JayDee on Gram Parsons' Safe At Home |
scott murray
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Posted 25 Apr 2013 11:49 pm |
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Is everyone familiar with this album by now? Technically it's The International Submarine Band but it was Gram's baby. Recorded in 1967, JayDee's steel work dominates the proceedings and remains some of my most favorite playing of all-time. It's exciting, innovative, and "brilliant" as Gram described it. There's a Lloyd Green influence for sure, but Mr. Maness put his own spin on it.
I had the chance to ask him about it one time and he seemed almost embarrassed by it, much to my surprise. He said he couldn't really listen to it and was much prouder of his work with The Desert Rose Band. While I appreciate that stuff too and I can certainly understand his style evolving away from that 60s sound, I just prefer what he was doing back then. It's almost a forgotten way of playing and something I try to replicate in my own performances.
I'm not sure what my point is really. Just to tell anyone who might not be aware of the album's existence and maybe ask what else is out there in the same vein. I love his playing on Sweetheart of the Rodeo and what little he recorded with Buck Owens... there's some great HeeHaw videos on youtube.
Can anyone recommend anything else JayDee did in the late 60s or so that I might not be aware of?
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Olaf van Roggen
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 26 Apr 2013 4:44 am
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Scott click on "Avalanche" by Eric Andersen in All Music, and then on on "Good To Be With You", it's very short, but it's JD's sixties style.
There's also an early seventies Terry Melcher record, on which he plays.
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 26 Apr 2013 7:32 am
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wow...was intn'l submarine band really 46 years ago!!
and we're still alive?
exciting playing from jd in comparison to other stuff back then. he showed his own style from the beginning and still does to this day.
this was the strongest showing of the beginnings of country rock. it's more raw than desert rose, but i like all of it. |
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 26 Apr 2013 7:39 am
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| other early stuff by jd that i love is on the colleen peterson 'beginning to feel like home' album . jame burton on guitar with jd can't be beat! |
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Pete Burak
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Portland, OR USA
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Joe Goldmark
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San Francisco, CA 94131
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Posted 26 Apr 2013 7:58 pm
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Hillman's "Bakersfield Bound," The Herb Pedersen albums, both "Rancho Deluxe" albums, Stoney Edwards "A Country Singer," the tune "Misty" by Ray Stevens, for starters. JayDee is probably my favorite steeler if I had to pick. He plays at such a high level, with drive and creativity and a unique way of approaching his licks.
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scott murray
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Asheville, NC
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Posted 27 Apr 2013 12:36 pm
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the songs Blue Eyes and Luxury Liner from Safe At Home were added to the official archive of the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1986 as two of the greatest country music recordings of all-time. I'd like to see the entire list, and I wonder how many JayDee played on.
also, if you're a fan of the kind of uptempo car-chase music JayDee played on Dukes of Hazzard (and who isn't) check out this one:
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