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Topic: The great steel tunes at Holling's bar |
Mark van Allen
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Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 15 Mar 2014 8:21 pm |
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Not being a TV household, what we generally watch as a family are DVDs from our collection or those we borrow from our great local library.
Lately we've been enjoying a family marathon of the old "Northern Exposure" TV series, just a great show. There are many scenes at "The Brick"- Holling's bar and the town hangout- and nearly every single scene there has really cool instrumental tunes playing on the "jukebox". I don't recognize any of them as being Lloyd Green's Little Darlin' stuff, or anything else familiar. I wonder if anybody knows any more about that- if it's the producer or musical director for the show who just dug steel guitar, and who any of the tracks were played by?
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Les Cargill
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Oklahoma City, Ok, USA
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Posted 16 Mar 2014 6:27 am
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There is actually a guide for that:
http://www.moosechick.com/musicpage4.html
I think Daniel Lanois figures prominently in the "work for hire" parts of the soundtrack for the show. Daniel
is a fine steel player. |
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Mark van Allen
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Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 16 Mar 2014 6:50 am
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Wow, Les, there's actually somebody who's more of a NE nut than me... lot of work in that website. It looks like a lot of the tracks I'm talking about might be Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers. None of that sounds like the more atmospheric stuff I've heard Lanois do, which is fantastic. Whoever selected the bar music sure did like steel, though!
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Les Cargill
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Oklahoma City, Ok, USA
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Posted 16 Mar 2014 7:30 am
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I actually just Googled for that. This being said, Northern Exposure remains one of my favorite things ever on TV.
Nothing sounds more honky-tonk than steel, and since the primary conflict was a New York doctor in culture shock with the boonies I would imagine the music at The Brick was thought about considerably.
What I have seen of Red Knuckles et. al. seems to not be very pedal. But they're a little comedy as well as music; no telling what they'd do if say, hired to populate the jukebox at the Brick.
And the episode with Kevin Conway about tuning (in his case, a piano) still remains something I learned a lot from. |
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