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Topic: One more "who's this"? |
Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 9 May 2014 1:37 am |
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I think it's Jimmy, but I'm used to seeing him grown up, and this is a kid!!
http://youtu.be/LSnodth2Fek
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
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Paul King
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Gainesville, Texas, USA
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Posted 9 May 2014 2:17 am
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| I am not sure Lane but he sure played some nice licks. I would like to know as well. |
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Olli Haavisto
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Jarvenpaa,Finland
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Posted 9 May 2014 2:37 am
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Kinda looks like Ben Keith to me....
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Olli Haavisto
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Dave Grothusen
From:
Scott City, Ks
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Posted 9 May 2014 3:24 am
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| It is not Jimmy |
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Greg Cutshaw
From:
Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 9 May 2014 3:47 am
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| Ben Keith. |
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Ben Rubright
From:
Punta Gorda, Florida, USA
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Posted 9 May 2014 4:57 am
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It is Ben Keith on steel.
Country Deputies from that era.
Ben Keith, Roger Miller, Darrell McCall, and Odell Martin. |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 9 May 2014 5:46 am
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I have to admit to being unfamiliar with Ben. He can flat get with it!!
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects |
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Barry Blackwood
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Greg Cutshaw
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Corry, PA, USA
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Don Griffiths
From:
Steelville, MO
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Posted 9 May 2014 10:54 am
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Thanks Greg! I'm on it.
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 9 May 2014 2:19 pm
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Here's some wonderful Ben Keith playing with Faron when very young, Odell in the background. It's on the Town Hall Party TV show that was popular in Los Angeles when I was a kid.
Ben gets the full solo and kills it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL2VP8REKws&feature=youtu.be
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Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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Bill Cunningham
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Atlanta, Ga. USA
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 10 May 2014 7:49 am
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| I guess back in the early 60's he was a peer of Buddy and Jimmy. |
I would say that's a fair assessment.
BEN KEITH
On the full moon, the Thunder moon, the world lost one of the greatest musicians of all time. Ben was 73 years old the night he died on Broken Arrow Ranch in California, his happy home for the last years of his life. Ben played with Patsy Cline, Faron Young, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Ian Tyson and many other music greats. A great American, the quiet giant, he moved gently through the world, with kindness and grace.
My wife Pegi was lucky to share his last performance a few weeks back in San Francisco, where Ben was playing in her band, supporting her and lending his spirit to her every word as she sang her songs for us.
Of course, in Nashville Ben Keith is legendary, one of the last of the original country greats, the man behind the song. No one will ever fill his shoes. He has countless friends and admirers. They all miss him as much as I do. I will miss him every time I look to my side, remembering him, my brother and fellow traveler.
Thankfully, Ben's masterful playing can be seen and heard in two Johnathon Demme pictures: 'Heart of Gold' and 'Trunk Show,' as well as countless great recordings over the last 50 years. We are so fortunate to have these as memories and lasting documents of his greatness and grace. He started out on a homemade steel guitar he fashioned himself from a piece of wood and left over parts. He loved his music and his life and cherished his many friends and soul mates.
He leaves behind his wonderful daughter Heidi, and his grandchildren who he loved so much, DJ, Rachel, James, Meredith, Aubrey, Fletcher and Caroline.
May he rest in Peace.
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