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Topic: who's on steel here? |
Cody Campbell
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Nashville, Tennessee
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Rick Campbell
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Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 24 Jun 2016 10:13 am Re: who's on steel here? |
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Cody,
I might have mentioned this before. Love your name. My mother was a Cody and my father Campbell.
RC |
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John Swain
From:
Winchester, Va
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Posted 24 Jun 2016 12:39 pm
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| I'd vote it's Lloyd ! |
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Tony Smart
From:
Harlow. Essex. England
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Posted 24 Jun 2016 1:07 pm
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| My guess is Hal. |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 24 Jun 2016 2:24 pm
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This just in from Lloyd.
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You guys want to hear a little story you’ve never heard about those wild west days of Nashville in the mid 1960s?
The style on this song is my almost exact Warner Mack sound from the previous year, 1965, “The Bridge Washed Out†and my early Lynn Anderson style.
After that Warner record you heard a lot of that style….with many singers for the next 2 or 3 years by Weldon, Hal and me… until
everybody was sick of it and we had burned it out.
Anyway, Warner called me one day, visibly upset, and asked why I was using “our†style on everybody’s record. I assured him I wasn’t, that I had a lot of other ideas besides that one. He mentioned a couple of songs by singers currently playing on the radio and I told him one was Hal, the other Weldon. He was then even angrier asking, “Can they do that� I told him they could play my new style as well as me and since they were both also playing Sho-Buds and using Fender amps during that era it was often hard to tell the difference. But I can tell the fingerprint of each. Yet when they wanted to, they could be eerily close, especially Hal.
Now, I’m not suggesting they didn’t have their own styles and sounds too. Obviously they did, both being world class players and session musicians, too.
Now, for the answer to this record of Hank Mills (which wasn’t his real name), who was coincidentally the writer of my first #1 record in early 1965, “The Girl On The Billboardâ€; I think it’s Hal Rugg, just by the way he alters a tiny bit of the phrasing I was using.
Otherwise, it’s me. But there’s a 90% certainty it’s Hal.
Lloyd Green
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Ricky Davis
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Walter Stettner
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Vienna, Austria
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