Charlie Feathers' Peepin' Eyes: What steel?

J D Sauser · From: Wellington, Florida

I just heard Charlie Feathers' song Peepin'Eyes on the radio today (!!) and was surprised by the steel work... sounds like hillbilly style non-pedal but then there are pedal style moving tones...
Who is it?
What tuning/setp?
What guitar?

... J-D.

Mitch Drumm · From: Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake

JD:

assuming you heard the original version from february 1955, it was stan kesler on steel and marcus van story on bass, with fiddle by either bill cantrell or quentin claunch.

kesler was the nearest thing to a house steel man that sam phillips had--although i think john hughey recorded with slim rhodes band in the same studio shortly after the feathers recordings were made.

J D Sauser · From: Wellington, Florida

Thanks Mitch.
Any idea if Stan already used a pedal guitar and if he had an early version of E9th on it?

.. J-D.

Roger Shackelton · From: MINNESOTA (deceased)

J.D. Please define Hillbilly Style Non-Pedal Steel Guitar. I have never heard that term before.??

Roger

[This message was edited by Roger Shackelton on 01 June 2004 at 11:33 AM.]

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