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Topic: slow ballads for lap steel |
Randy Reeves
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LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 8 Nov 2013 1:06 pm |
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I need suggestions for slow ballads for the band. looking for lap steel instrumentals and some with vocals. We do Sleepwalk, but need more.
help please. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 8 Nov 2013 2:08 pm
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| Harbor Lights |
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John Mulligan
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 8 Nov 2013 2:17 pm
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| Any ballad that you are fond of. |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 8 Nov 2013 2:43 pm
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What kind of band? What styles of music do you play?
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Morgan Scoggins
From:
Georgia, USA
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Posted 9 Nov 2013 9:06 am
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Born To Lose, Take these Chains from My Heart, Send Me The Pillow That you Dream On, Paper Roses, Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain, Have I Told You Lately That I Love You, I Love You Because, Your Cheating Heart, I Love you So Much It Hurts Me, Tennessee Waltz........and most any song by Patsy Cline!!
I almost forgot the #1 song from my days of playing in lounges back in the 70's... Release Me, The unhappy housewives really dig it.
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 9 Nov 2013 9:13 am
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Morgan,
Did you know that "Release Me" was originally a gospel song? |
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 9 Nov 2013 9:31 am
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our band plays early rock, vintage country and some blues. typical older guy band play list.
our regional audience is an older group. they respond highly to Folsum Prison, Ring of Fire, Wild Side of Life, Wrong, Just to Satisfy You. this is rural country. they recognize first wave country. We want to play for a broad range of audiences. Our goal is to get them dancing; it's more fun for us and the bar manager.
we cover Sleepwalk and Your Cheatin' Heart; that's where I play lap steel.
the lap steel goes over big. apparently we're the only band that has a steel.
I play Mercury Blues on my open E tuned lap.
the other lap, recently tuned to the "James" tuning, will be used for all else.
Thanks for those song suggestions. I have an afternoon of good listening today.
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Morgan Scoggins
From:
Georgia, USA
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Posted 9 Nov 2013 10:02 am
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I have never heard about that Erv. But nothing surprises me. "Honkey Tonk Angels" was also a gospel song.. "Great Speckled Bird". "Release me" was popularized by a guy named Engelbert Humperdink and recorded by many others. I would guess it to be the most requested lounge song ever. I guess there was a lot of unhappy women.
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Rich Gardner
From:
Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Posted 9 Nov 2013 10:11 am
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| How 'bout Canadian Sunset? |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 9 Nov 2013 12:50 pm Here's a tho't.........
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As John, from Canada suggests, play any song you can hummmmmm from a roster of ballads or whatever.
If you can't Hummmmmmmmm it, you likely can't play it. |
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Robert Allen
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 9 Nov 2013 1:10 pm
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| Crying Steel Guitar Waltz recorded by Kitty Wells back in the 50's or early 60's. Nice cry in your beer song that features the lap steel. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 9 Nov 2013 1:19 pm
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Yes, any recognizable song with a strong melody will work. The two most popular are still SleepWalk and Steel Guitar Rag. I've played each of them hundreds... maybe thousands... of times in the past 40 years. If I need another slow/medium tune I'll go with Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, Walkin' After Midnight, I Fall to Pieces, Take These Chains From My Heart, Tennessee Waltz, etc. Additional fast ones: San Antonio Rose, Jambalaya (with modulations). It's really up to you. Just pick a song that you and the people out there will like, and work out an arrangement that's comfortable to play.
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 9 Nov 2013 1:41 pm
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| thanks everybody. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2013 6:45 am
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Randy,
Since you are from Wisconsin, your audience misht like some old time. There are some nice old time waltzes. |
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 20 Nov 2013 10:48 am
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I worked up "Crazy" written by Willie Nelson and recorded by Patsy Cline. This is a beautiful song to play. I will record it and post it here soon. in an interview on the Letterman show Nelson said it was the number 1 jukebox song to this day. I believe it, but most jukes I've seen the buttons for "Freebird" have the most wear.
I will be checking out all of the great suggestions fro you all. thanks much. |
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