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Topic: Guitar Player Magazine's 20 Essential Steel Albums in 1987 |
George Rout
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St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 16 Aug 2007 6:09 pm |
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A while back on some section of the Forum, there was a mention of the "best steel albums". I've been away for a couple of weeks picking with good friends in Nova Scotia, so I haven't been on the forum.
In January 1987, Guitar Player celebrated it's 20th anniversary, and they featured 20 Essential this and that. The 20 Essential Steel Albums were:
1. Sol Hoopii-Master of the Hawaiian Guitar
2. Jerry Byrd-Byrd In Hawaii
3. Okeh Western Swing-Various Artists
4. Spade Cooley & Tex Williams-Oklahoma Stomp
5. Hank Williams-24 Of Hank Williams Greatest Hits
6. Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant-Two Guitars Country Style
7. Buddy Emmons-Steel Guitar Jazz
8. Buck Owens-Buck Owens
9. Connie Smith-Best Of Connie Smith
10. Curly Chalker-Big Hits On Big Steel
11. Ray Price-Ray Price Greatest Hits
12. Byrds-Sweetheart of the Rodeo
13. Doug Jernigan-Uptown to Country
14. Charlie Pride-Charlie Pride In Person
15. Emmons, Maness, Rhodes, Kleinhow, Young-Steel Suite
16. Flying Burrito Bros-Close Up The Honky Tonks
17. Paul Franklyn-Play by Play
18. Poco-Pickin’ Up The Pieces
19. Roger Miller-Trip In The Country
20. Freddy Roulette-Sweet Funky Steel
While they were listed in this order, it's not an order of greatness. I wonder if anybody did like this obsessive/compulsive being did. For the ones I didn't already have, I went on a search for all of them, and the only one I couldn't find was Freddy Roulette's.
It was an interesting overview, based on their reasons for the steel players on the specified albums.
George
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Stu Schulman
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Posted 16 Aug 2007 6:52 pm
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Freddy Roulette is the first steel guitar player that I ever saw live,He was playing with Charlie Musselwhite.
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Ron Page
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Penn Yan, NY USA
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Posted 17 Aug 2007 8:07 am
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Given the era, Tony Booth should have had an album or two on that list, e.g. "When A Man Loves a Woman" is full of Jay Dee's steel.
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Pete Finney
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Nashville Tn.
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Posted 17 Aug 2007 9:12 am
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Was there a "byline" as far as who chose the albums, and wrote the piece? Steve Fishell wrote some stuff for them back in the day...
In any case it's nice to even remember a mainstream publication being that hip about steel. I'm sure we all have our favorites that we feel should be on there too, but that's a pretty damned good start! |
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Andy Greatrix
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Edmonton Alberta
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Posted 17 Aug 2007 10:12 am
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| All of Lloyd Green's recordings should be on that list. |
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 17 Aug 2007 1:09 pm
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My list would be quite different and would include:
Herb Remington - Steel Guitar Holiday
Noel Boggs - Magic Steel Guitar
Lloyd Green - The Big Steel Guitar of
Jimmy Day - Golden Steel Guitar Hits
Jerry Byrd - Steel Guitar Favorites
Speedy West - Guitar Spectacular
Johnny Paycheck - The Real Mr. Heartache
Hal Aloma - Live At The Luau 400
King Bennie Nawahi - Hawaiian String Virtuoso
Sol Hoopii - Master of the Hawaiian Guitar
and might include:
Tom Brumley - Tom Cattin'
Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels Live 1973 (Neil Flanz)
Ernest Tubb - Live 1965
New Riders of the Purple Sage - Adventures of Panama Red
Hank Thompson - Live at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas
something by Bud Isaacs
among others....
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Michael Lee Allen
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Portage Park / Irving Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Posted 22 Aug 2007 2:02 pm
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REMOVED
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 22 Aug 2007 3:41 pm
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Vance Terry-Jimmie Rivers and the Cherokees, Brisbane Bop
would be another good addition to the list. |
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Jussi Huhtakangas
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Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 23 Aug 2007 4:16 am
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| If I remember correct that was Steve Fishell's selection of albums. |
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