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Topic: Big steel guitar writeup in Guitar World mag - 1980! |
David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 11 Jan 2008 6:59 am |
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Heavy-metal mag Guitar World has posted their very first issue from June 1980 on their website, you can read it page by page. There's a big feature on the steel guitar, and another article about the "50 Greatest Guitar Albums Ever" has a whole section delegated to steel albums. My how things change.
http://www.guitarworld.com/backissueviewer
pp. 28-33 is the article, and 56-57 is the albums. |
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 11 Jan 2008 9:50 am
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| Also the articles on Merle Travis, Dan Toler, George Thorogood, fingerstyle jazz guitar, and of course the cover story on Johnny Winter. Yes, things changed very fast from here. |
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Shawn Brown
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Ontario, Canada
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Posted 11 Jan 2008 10:14 am Essential Steel Albums
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As well, in the January 1987 issue of Guitar Player magazine, player Steve Fishell did a write-up on the 20 essential Steel Albums. The magazine had them listed as:(in no particular order)
Sol Hoopii - Master of the Hawaiian Guitar
Jerry Byrd - Byrd in Hawaii
Various Artists - Okeh Western Swing
Spade Cooley and Tex Williams - Oklahoma Stomp
Hank Williams - 24 of Hank Williams Greatest Hits (Don Helms)
Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant - Two Guitars Country Style
Buddy Emmons - Steel Guitar Jazz
Buck Owens - Buck Owens (Ralph Mooney and Tom Brumley)
Connie Smith - Best of Connie Smith (Weldon Myrick, Hal Rugg, Pete Drake)
Curley Chalker - Big Hits on Big Steel
Ray Price - Ray Price's Greatest Hits (Jimmy Day)
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Lloyd Green and Jay Dee Maness)
Doug Jerrigan - Uptown to Country
Charlie Pride - Charlie Pride in Person (Lloyd Green)
Buddy Emmons, Jay Dee Maness, Red Rhodes, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Rusty Young - Suite Steel
Flying Burrito Brothers - Close up the Honkytonks (Sneaky Pete)
Paul Franklin - Play by Play
Poco - Pickin up the Pieces (Rusty Young)
Roger Miller - A Trip in the Country (Buddy Emmons)
Freddie Roulette - Sweet Funky Steel |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 11 Jan 2008 10:59 am
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| I'd say that's still a pretty good list... |
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