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Charles Kurck


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Post  Posted 30 Dec 2020 1:20 pm    
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Pedal Steel Great Jimmy Day

NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 1973: Pedal steel great Jimmy Day play his pedal steel guitar in a recording session for Willie Nelson
in February 1973 at the Atlantic Records studio in New York City, New York. (Photo by David Gahr/Getty Images)

https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/pedal-steel?editorialproducts=archival&family=editorial&phrase=pedal%20steel&sort=mostpopular
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Frank Freniere


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Post  Posted 30 Dec 2020 2:23 pm    
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Great picture!

Cool pants. Or pajamas.
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Roger Crawford


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Post  Posted 30 Dec 2020 2:33 pm    
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Pajamas.
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Dave Zirbel


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Post  Posted 30 Dec 2020 2:42 pm    
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That is a cool shot...and the album is really great. This must have been for The Troublemaker, which in my opinion has some of the most soulful and heartfelt steel playing on it! Dang near brings me to tears...Thanks for sharing it!

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Jack Stanton


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Post  Posted 30 Dec 2020 3:40 pm    
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Also could have been Shotgun Wilie sessions
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Dave Zirbel


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Post  Posted 30 Dec 2020 5:24 pm    
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Also could have been Shotgun Wilie sessions


Yeah true...the internet says both were recorded at Atlantic in Feb 1973

Troublemaker was done in two days apparently 😳
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Dave Zirbel


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Post  Posted 30 Dec 2020 6:28 pm    
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Is he playing a permanent or fingertip in that photo?
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Jerry Overstreet


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Post  Posted 30 Dec 2020 6:48 pm    
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Cool shot. Sho-Bud right? But what are the graphics on the left end?

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Dave Zirbel


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Post  Posted 30 Dec 2020 6:50 pm    
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Yes Shobud.
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robert kramer

 

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Post  Posted 31 Dec 2020 7:56 am    
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Here's "She Not For You" from these sessions. If you know of a better steel guitar track, please let me know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6trhU23ULq4
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Lee Dassow


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Post  Posted 31 Dec 2020 5:00 pm    
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Say I noticed that the first 3 pedal rods are closer together than the other six. Could that be custom made for him specially, or is that the way Sho-Bud manufactured them.
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David Zornes

 

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Charles I like and appreciate your sideline under your picture and the statement under your post. Good witness.
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Skip Edwards

 

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Post  Posted 31 Dec 2020 9:43 pm    
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Lee, that's the way they were on Fingertips, and I think maybe also on Permanents.
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David Ball


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Post  Posted 1 Jan 2021 4:22 am    
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My permanents have the narrower spacing on the first three pedals too.

Dave
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Mike Perlowin


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Post  Posted 1 Jan 2021 9:13 am    
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Dave Zirbel wrote:
That is a cool shot...and the album is really great. This must have been for The Troublemaker, which in my opinion has some of the most soulful and heartfelt steel playing on it! Dang near brings me to tears...Thanks for sharing it!

dz


I agree about The Troublemaker. The steel playing on it, credited to "James Clayton Day," is absolutely exquisite.
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Olli Haavisto


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Post  Posted 1 Jan 2021 9:29 am    
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Shotgun Willie came out in `73.
I bought it 3 years later and spent days on end playing along with it with my first steel.
Listened to it today...timeless stuff!
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Olli Haavisto


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Post  Posted 1 Jan 2021 9:37 am    
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Shotgun Willie came out in `73.
I bought it 3 years later and spent days on end playing along with it with my first steel.
Listened to it today...timeless stuff!
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Jerry Overstreet


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Post  Posted 1 Jan 2021 6:46 pm    
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I'll ask again. Can anybody read the graphics on the left end of Jimmy's guitar?...or know what they might say?
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Mike Flick

 

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Post  Posted 1 Jan 2021 7:25 pm    
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Possibly a sho bud logo, a spade, and Jimmy Day on the front?
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Mike Flick

 

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Post  Posted 1 Jan 2021 7:36 pm    
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On closer look it is "Blue Darlin"
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Jerry Overstreet


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Post  Posted 1 Jan 2021 8:13 pm    
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Thank you Mike. That makes sense. I couldn't get a decent look at it. So, do you think that's a spade there in the middle?
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Mike Flick

 

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Post  Posted 1 Jan 2021 9:19 pm    
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I read on the forum that he had a spade inlay on one of his guitars so that was more an educated guess. Pretty sure about the Blue Darlin' in script on the key head side though. Looks like a roman numeral III after it.
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Greg Milton


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Post  Posted 5 Jan 2021 10:27 pm    
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The original photo has a few beer bottles on the ground around him (Heineken, I believe). Now, that I can really relate to Wink
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