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Topic: The FIRST SONG I EVER HEARD by the Master.......... |
Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 17 May 2007 1:09 pm |
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When I was just a youngster, I chanced to hear this tune played by a local DJ over olde RADIO STATAION K.P.O.J, owned by the Jackson Family and their Newspaper, the Oregon Journal.
It was after several years of attempting to learn to read sheet music published by the Gibson Guitar Company. My teacher had suggested to my parents that I should be listening to "records" of steel guitar players as she couldn't take me any further. At that time, Eddy Arnold, The Tennessee Plowboy was the singing cowboy/folk artist of the day and "Little Ivan" was his loyal and hard-working steel guitar player. I loved Roy's steel playing and to this day, find him to be another one-of-a-kind musician. I surely miss him.
Once I heard JERRY BYRD however, my love affair with any other steel guitar player ENDed forever.
See if you can pick out a dozen or more "THINGIES" that Jerry Byrd did in this number, that even to this day, make him the ranking exception "to the rule". You'll have to listen very closely as they are small subtles that make him so rich sounding and original. |
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 17 May 2007 4:26 pm
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Is this it Ray
Moonland |
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Doug Seymour
From:
Jamestown NY USA (deceased)
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Posted 18 May 2007 1:40 am
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| I was a fan of Slim Idaho in 1947 when I was playing with a Hillbilly band, the Sunset Ramblers, on the radio and for square dances and shows. Another steel player from a band about 30 miles away (Salamanca) came to our dance one saturday night and asked me who my favorite steel player was. I said Slim Idaho, and he said what about Jerry Byrd? I said is he a steel player? He said he was the greatest! I said you'll have to show me. A while later he brought me a stack of 10" acetates he'd purchased from a player who had recorded them from the radio while Jerry was at WJR Detroit. I played them that night when I got home, with earphones on, and one tune was Black & White Rag. I was dumbfounded.....I had no idea you could do that on a steel. I'd never heard that done on a steel before......I was an immediately converted steel player. I listened and learned from Jerry for many years after that! |
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 18 May 2007 10:32 am
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| Love that tune Ray, thanks! |
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Dan Tyack
From:
Olympia, WA USA
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Posted 22 May 2007 10:07 am
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Whew, I thought this was going to be another thread about Jerry Garcia!
The first songs I every heard Jerry Byrd play on were the cuts he did with Hank Williams. It could have been I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry, or 'Buzz Buzz Buzz (goes that pesky little fly)'. |
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DeWitt Scott
From:
St. Louis, Missouri, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 24 May 2007 11:36 pm Jerry Byrd
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| The first tune I heard Jerry Byrd play was "Drowsy Waters". That did it for me. Even though I copied Don Helms and Little Roy Wiggins and even became friends with them Jerry has always been my all time favorite player. God rest his soul. Scotty |
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Dr. Richard Buffington
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 25 May 2007 4:54 am Jerry Byrd's first song
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| I would like to second Scotty's remarks. Drowsy Waters did it for me also. Dick |
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