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Topic: 21st Century Pedal Steel Gems |
Brian Hollands
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Posted 20 Jul 2018 6:52 am |
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The Top 10 Pedal Steel Guitar Solos of All Time thread has a ton of awesome stuff listed but I can't help notice that very little if any is from this century. So, if the Pedal Steel is Not Dead, let's list some gems released after January 1st 2000. Can be a solo or a song. Maybe not ready for the all-time list yet...
I'll start with a couple of things from Jeffery Foucault's 2016 release "Horse Latitudes" - Eric Heywood on the steel.
The title track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTMNLXv0fPM&index=1&list=PLZJW7FZ45TdToA7RrqJ5M-GcCzT3zNB_s Cool playing throughout.
Passerines - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmIVxw5UEhs&list=PLZJW7FZ45TdToA7RrqJ5M-GcCzT3zNB_s&index=9 Just pretty stuff IMO
Starlight and Static and Pretty Girl in a Small Town are great too.
So how about it? Greg Leisz, Robert Randoph, What ya got from this century?
(Edit: Horse Latitudes was a 2011 release)
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Tucker Jackson
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Jim Palenscar
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Oceanside, Calif, USA
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Posted 20 Jul 2018 8:16 am
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| Not sure this qualifies but would be on the cusp of this century- Paul Franklin w Vince Gill "Whenever You Come Around" - the audio quality is not the best but the solo is to die for. Solo starts at 4:39. |
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Rich Upright
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Florida, USA
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Posted 21 Jul 2018 10:32 am
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| Jim Palenscar wrote: |
| Not sure this qualifies but would be on the cusp of this century- Paul Franklin w Vince Gill "Whenever You Come Around" - the audio quality is not the best but the solo is to die for. Solo starts at 4:39. |
Yup...you're right on THAT one! Solo is awesome.
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Fred Treece
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California, USA
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Posted 22 Jul 2018 12:02 am
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Daniel Romano is a great sorta neo- classic country artist. His steel player is Aaron Goldstein.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-hgNA8Px_WY
Guest vocalist Sarah Harmer is superb on this one with The Trilliums:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6O-L27G1iU0
Lloyd Green is still making amazing music, as everyone here knows. Venus Moon is a lifetime accomplishment in a lifetime of musical accomplishment.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bLsq80eQsrA
His solo at the end of “I’m Looking Through You†from the Revisited album is a mind bender, but the tune is not available on the tube.
Bobby Black’s album, “Steel Guitar Paradise†should be in everyone’s collection. I think that came out post-2000.
I dare say there is some fine steel toonage linked here on the forum recently by players like Rick Schmidt, Christopher Woitach, Joe Goldmark, Mike Perlowin, Doug Beaumier, and many others whose names this newcomer can’t rattle off yet. |
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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 22 Jul 2018 5:29 pm
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 Fred, I never thought my appreciation of Lloyd Green's work could ever be any stronger, as he is probably my all time favorite. But this Venus Moon has just brought my amazement of Mr Green to an all time high. Very modern and "out of this world". 
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Gary Newcomb
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AustinTexas, USA
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Posted 26 Jul 2018 1:30 pm Bump for this much needed thread
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I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and cruising the web for new sounds on the pedal steel to not much avail. Let’s hear more!
It seems like the state of steel is in a holding pattern. I’m dying to hear something new. Even in a town like Austin with so many great young steel players, I feel like I largely hear either familiar sounding moves and phrasing form the great book of Buddy and Lloyd or it’s bathed in pedalboard atmospherics. One Notable exception is Bob Hoffnar who is tremendously forward thinking in both technique and sound. I’ll see what I can dig up and post it here! Love y’all!
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Al Evans
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Austin, Texas, USA
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Posted 26 Jul 2018 2:18 pm
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This is the coolest "new" thing I've seen/heard recently. Robert Randolph and Joe Bonamassa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggNY41Vc5yE
--Al Evans
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Mike Daly
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Tennessee
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Steve Mueller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2018 8:34 pm
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Robert Randolph.…WOW!That's some incredible rock steel playing. Using a dobro bar!!
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Chris Brooks
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Providence, Rhode Island
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Posted 2 Aug 2018 6:09 am
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Gary wrote: It seems like the state of steel is in a holding pattern. I’m dying to hear something new.
I am not up there with any of these guys mentioned. . . but am in a recently formed "jazz etc." group--guitar, bass, drums, steel--here in Rhode Island. We have played several gigs. The guys are great musicians. And then there's me . . . .
Seriously, Gary, the band does stuff from Beatles' Blackbird to Jimmy Smith + Wes, Keith Jarrett, Metheny, plus some originals. Even Tennessee Waltz. All instrumentals. I write out a chart for each tune and find I am using the H & K Rotosphere often so that we don't have that "All-guitars, All the Time" sound. We like to play "together." :> )
Challenging for me, but at least I am still learning.
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Asa Brosius
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Posted 2 Aug 2018 6:48 am
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Some recent great stuff I've heard-
Mike Daly's new album is fantastic, steel specific.
Greg Leisz on the Watkins Family Hour, especially their cover of the Dead's 'Brokedown Palace'-also anything he's done with Bill Frisell
Paul Franklin on Lee Ann Womack's 'The Lonely Lonesome and the Gone'- amazing song, speaks to what country music has became, great lesson in restraint and vibey steel from the best
Greg L again on Buddy Miller's 'the majestic silver strings' beautiful sounds
Not sure if he's on their records yet, but Brett Lanier is doing great unusual stuff on steel with The Barr Brothers- excellent interesting music.
Buck Reid covers a lot of styles expertly on his steel album
Finally, chase down Russ Pahl's discography- you've heard his work on a lot of pop country hits whether you like it or not, but he's always interesting and plays on a lot of cool under the radar albums- check out Kelet-Nyugat East-West Session. |
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James Kerr
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Scotland, UK
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Mike Daly
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Tennessee
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Posted 3 Aug 2018 8:13 am
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| Asa Brodie's, thanks for responding to my latest album. I noticed you included the work of the esteemed LA session player Greg Leisz in your playlist. Of interest to you; if you downloaded my album with no credits available, it should be noted that Greg played on one song on this album. "Renascence" is a duet record of sorts, with contributions from masters Lloyd Green, BJ Cole, Robert Randolph, Greg Leisz, and Dan Dugmore. Greg Leisz played on the track "Ryland" where he contributed atmospheric steel and a lap steel solo while I played the Weissenborn. Greg is truly a complete musical master of all things slide. |
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Brian Hollands
From:
Geneva, FL USA
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Posted 3 Aug 2018 10:02 am
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I was convinced that first track Thundershower was Leisz until I figured out the credits. Really nice playing. I think I'll pick up a copy
Some good stuff here. Keep it coming
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Mike Daly
From:
Tennessee
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Posted 3 Aug 2018 11:46 am
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| Brian... Thank you.. Here are the credits for the collaborations on the album: "md.ldg" features the master Lloyd Green, the Richard Thompson classic " Dimming of the Day" features U.K. steel star BJ Cole, the gospel blues track "A Little R&R" has Robert Randolph tearing it up, "Ryland" as mentioned is Greg Leisz, and "Old Friends/Lenny" has Dan Dugmore performing a beautiful solo on the Stevie Ray Vaughan classic. The remaining 4 tracks have no special guests... |
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