The Waltz You Saved For Me

Roger Shackelton · From: MINNESOTA (deceased)

My favorite performance of this song was done by Buddy Charleton, while he was a "Texas Troubador."
Does anyone know if he was playing a Sho-Bud on this recording?

Roger

[This message was edited by Roger Shackelton on 06 May 2004 at 09:50 AM.]

Les Green · From: Jefferson City, MO, R.I.P.

I don't know if it was recorded with the Sho-bud but I saw him do it live several times and that's what he used. In fact if you go to BE's web page (Ernie's)and click on the BC link you can see the Sho-Bud he was using. Buddy and Leon...........don't get any better does it?
Les Green

Jussi Huhtakangas · From: Helsinki, Finland

Yes he was! The guitar pictured on the cover of the album ( not necessarily the same guitar used on the tune of course )is a D9 Sho Bud permanent. The album in question is the first "solo" Texas Troubadours album, and BC was playing Sho Buds at the time.

C Dixon · From: Duluth, GA USA

I particularly love Buddy Charleton's version, since he did it in Eb. I have always felt the key of F (which most play it in) is too high for that tune. Eb gives (to me) a more mellow and more rounded timbre.

I also, like how Buddy changed it just enough to embellish what Bud Isaacs had originally done without taking anything away from the father of PSG (as we know it today).

This tune is one of Larry Sasser's favorites as done by Buddy Charleton. Buddy is one of Larry's heroes. On a trip to Saluda one year, Larry dazzled us with fortelling every nuance and note BC was about to do as this recording played on the CD player in the van. I shall remember this til I die.

carl

Paul Graupp · From: Macon Ga USA

Carl: Did you by any chance catch BE's rendition on Prarie Home Companion this past weekend ?? He paid a verbal tribute to BI and then proceeded to incorporate half of BI's style when he played the WYSFM for Garrison Keeler who, in turn expressed his appreciation as well, for Buddy's performance.

Regards, Paul

C Dixon · From: Duluth, GA USA

Yes I did Paul. And as always, "what can one say?"

Buddy Emmons is truly a "listener's" steel player. His is a pure as a newborn baby in a mother's arms.

If anyone reading this wants to be a great player, and you are really earnest about it, listen to the last half dozen or so notes Buddy played on TWYSFM on that show.

The day you can get those notes to ring out like that is the day...

"Thou ARE a steel guitar player!!"

Try as I may for over 40 yrs, and I have NEVER been able to come close. He did a very similar thing on the stage of the ISGC in '77 to his ending of HW's classic "A Mansion on the Hill".

I must conclude that on the Prairie Home Companion show and in that Stlouis set, those notes are simply not on any guitar I have ever owned. For if they were, surely I would have found them by this time.

So in that sense, "the sound is truly in the hands!"

carl

Sam White R.I.P. · From: Coventry, RI 02816

If you want to hear two steel players that I know that do THE WALTZ YOU SAVED FOR ME you have to hear Roger Kelly from MT. CARMEL and Eddie Trent from Kingsport TN.Play it.I beleave they play it in Eb. I have it on cassett with both of them playing it but not together and they make that song so pretty. I have been playing it now in the same key as them and it is Beautiful.Someone gave the tab to Pat Jenkins on Tabulature and it is way to high. I tryed it and it was no where as pretty as in Eb.
Sam White

[This message was edited by Samuel E. White on 12 May 2004 at 05:19 PM.]

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