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Rob Stein

 

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Woodstock, NY
Post  Posted 4 Nov 2008 8:46 am    
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Trying to streamline the learning process here - can anyone suggest recordings featuring good, melodic lap steel work, where the tuning is known (or your pretty sure) to be either open G or open D/E? Thanks folks - last time I asked one like this y'all 'knocked it out of the park'(Boy do I miss baseball, as well as a lot of good, creative work on steel, living in Ireland)!
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Andy Volk


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Boston, MA
Post  Posted 4 Nov 2008 11:51 am    
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OPEN D

Kelly Joe Phelps: Roll Away The Stone
Harry Manx: Wise and Otherwise, West Easts Meet
Ed Gerhard: House of Guitars
David Lindley, El Rayo-Ex

OPEN G

Bob Brozman, Four Hands Hot & Sweet
Mike Auldridge, Dobro
Jerry Douglas, Restless on the Farm, Lookout For Hope

And that's just the tiny tip of the iceberg!
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Greg Cutshaw


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Corry, PA, USA
Post  Posted 4 Nov 2008 12:54 pm    
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Rob,

I've got a few tunes and some tabs that you could quickly go through to see if the open C6 tuning interests you:

Lap Steel Stuff

The complete songs include:

Kansas City Blues
It Is No Secret
Panhandle Rag
Texas Playboy Rag
Your Cheatin' Heart
Bouquet Of Roses
There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight


Greg
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Chris Scruggs

 

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Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Post  Posted 10 Nov 2008 8:26 am    
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If you want to know about E as well as D, you should also listen to A as well as G. Bluegrass players only tuned down a step from A because of the Bluegrass tendency to play on G.

Bob Dunn with Milton Brown and "Bashful" Brother Oswald with Roy Acuff are good places to go.
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