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Topic: Another "who's the steeler" question, 1960 Everly Brothers |
Lane Gray
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Roger Rettig
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Posted 19 Aug 2018 3:52 pm |
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Lane:
Jimmy Day played on 'Nashville Blues', 'What Kind of Girl Are You?', 'Lucille' - any steel you hear on either 'It's Everly Time' or 'A Date with the Everly Brothers' (including the track you've provided a link for). He plays a lovely obligato on 'Sleepless Nights' with tremolo on his amp.
Jimmy also played on the much earlier sessions ('I Wonder if I Care as Much', for example, but he's almost inaudible. He was playing on the 'Bye, Bye Love' session but he wasn't in the final mix.
Walter Haynes did a few early sessions with the Evs in Nashville. Later, of course, Red Rhodes and Buddy can be heard.
But that fertile period from 1960-61 is all Jimmy. His solo on 'Lucille' is a killer. I tried for years to play it on my six-string but that was before I'd even heard of a steel guitar!
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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Donny Hinson
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Posted 19 Aug 2018 4:48 pm
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The cut is from 1960, so it could be Emmons. I know he did some early stuff w/The Everly Bros, and that sounds like him on his (short lived) Fender 1000.
The song after that, by Bennie Nawahi really kicks butt, too! That's some really great playing from the early 1920's, and I guess it was stuff like that that helped inspire early "hot" players like Joaquin Murphy and Slim Idaho. |
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Roger Rettig
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Posted 19 Aug 2018 5:16 pm
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Both LPs were completed within days of each other and the personel was the same for all tracks. Jimmy Day is the credited steel player.
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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Chris Templeton
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The Green Mountain State
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Kevin Fix
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Michigan, USA
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Posted 20 Aug 2018 2:57 pm
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Paul Honeycutt
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Colorado, USA
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Posted 28 Aug 2018 12:03 pm
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Date with the Everly Brothers was one of the first albums I bought as a kid. (Columbia Record Club!) I was big on Johnny Horton, too. My current band played that song but more in the Jimmy Reed style which is right before the Everly's version from that broadcast clip. I'm going to have our pedal steel player check out the EB track.
Thanks for sharing that. BTW. Who played lead guitar on "Stick with Me Baby?" |
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Roger Rettig
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Posted 28 Aug 2018 12:09 pm
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'Stick With Me, Baby' was Hank Garland.
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 28 Aug 2018 12:31 pm
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I love the Everlys' work but, for me, those two albums - 'It's Everly Time' and 'A Date With the Everly Brothers', both recorded almost together in 1960 - are their very best.
In my opinion the mix is a bit better (to my ears) on '....Everly Time' but it's close. The Boys never sounded better and the entire Nashville 'A Team' were just perfect.
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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