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Topic: Gospel steel player for Happy Goodman Family |
David L. Turner
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Killen , Alabama
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Posted 18 Mar 2014 2:00 am |
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| Who was the steel player behind the Happy Goodman Family on the 1960s Sunday morning program Gospel Singing Jubilee? |
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Stan Paxton
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1/2 & 1/2 Florida and Tenn, USA (old Missouri boy gone South)
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Posted 18 Mar 2014 4:26 am
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Rabbit Easter played for them for years, but I don't know if he went back that far.  Great country gospel PSG player, does some other instruments very well also.
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Mark Greenway
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Lake Kiowa, Texas
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Posted 18 Mar 2014 8:17 pm
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Probably Jack Smith????
I know that Rabbit/Steve Easter was playing for them in the 80's.
Maybe we will here from Steve on this one. He should know who it was.
I remember Steve playing a black Emmons and a Session 500 when he was with Johnny Cook, Rusty, Sam and Tanya Goodman.
Does anyone remember Chip Horner, from Norman, Ok., that played for the Goodmans just before Rabbit?
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Paul King
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Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 19 Mar 2014 2:14 am
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| I know Jack Smith played on the 1971 Wanted Live album when he was 16 years old. If it was early 60's it probably was not him. |
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David L. Turner
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Killen , Alabama
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Posted 19 Mar 2014 2:27 am
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| I took the clues here and looked up Jack Smith. He's a member of this forum too . The player in the youtube videos is Jack Smith. He started young. |
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Gary Reed
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Posted 28 Aug 2014 3:16 pm
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| What are some of the albums Jack played on with The Goodman Family? |
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Roger Dillingham
From:
Kentucky, USA
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Posted 28 Aug 2014 5:08 pm Steel Player for The Happy Goodman Family
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Gary, I may not be an absolute authority on this topic but I live in same town in Kentucky that the Goodman Family called their "home" for several decades and I would have to believe that the most noteworthy steel player the Goodmans ever had was indeed Jack Smith. I know he started with the Goodmans very young, not sure if it could have been late '60s or early '70s but when I first met Jack probably in mid '70s he was with them then. He later left and was replaced by a couple of other good steel players, one of which was Gary Dees; the other player's name I can't recall. Gary Dees was very good, and very fast on steel. However; that being said, in my opinion I don't think I have ever heard any steel player that played more tastefully than Jack Smith. I believe that his ability on steel could be compared with the likes of Emmons, Green, Myrick and a handful of others. Wish I could have seen him again before his untimely recent death. Besides being a great picker he was a gentlemen as well from my experience. May he rest in peace playing for the Master now. Roger  |
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