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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 16 Apr 2013 7:30 am |
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Hey all,
I did a forum search and saw very little on these amazing Tom Morrell recordings. How the West was Swung volumes 1-15 are some of the best straight steel recordings I've heard. Simply an amazing body of work.
I particularly want to bring "Volume 7: No Peddlers Allowed" to your attention. While all the CD's feature Tom on straight steel, in Volume 7, Tom invited Bob White, Herb Remington, John Ely, and Bobby Koefer to join him, each artist given 3 tracks of their own plus a couple of tracks featuring 3 steelers at once.
Anyone interested in straight steel owes it to themselves to pickup this 15 cd treasure trove.
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Mark van Allen
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Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2013 8:56 am
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Quadruple ditto on this one, Bill. Between Tom and Joaquin, any time I get tired of pedals I know where to go to get my mind blown. What a great body of work!
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2013 11:17 am
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| There's one vol. that has Byrd on a few tunes, all good stuff fer sure but Byrd took the cake! |
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Ulrich Sinn
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California, USA
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Posted 17 Apr 2013 7:46 am
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My personal favorites are actually 4, 13, 15.
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Mike Anderson
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British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 17 Apr 2013 9:14 am
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A man with total contempt for pop "country" and no fear about saying so right in his liner notes!
Rest in peace, Tommy, thank you for your beautiful music - and right on. |
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Mike Anderson
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British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 17 Apr 2013 9:25 am
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I always wondered how he would have sounded if accompanied by a more modern rhythm section.
Less Lionel Hampton, more Bobby Hutcherson  . |
 No offense Ulrich, but you have an odd way of dealing with the memory of one of the greatest players the instrument has ever known. He chose who he chose, he obviously loved playing with them, they were perfectly suited veterans of the style, and that is that.
Wonder away, but to what possible purpose I can't begin to imagine. |
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 17 Apr 2013 10:06 am
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"A man with total contempt for pop "country"
From what I've read, he hated all country, pop or no pop. |
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 17 Apr 2013 10:24 am
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"they were perfectly suited veterans of the style"
Which style would that be?
While certainly there is a lot of western swing, it is clear that jazz is major love. A lot of the tracks fit more into mainstream jazz than anything else so wondering what Tom could have done with a more modern jazz rhythm is a perfectly natural thing to ponder. |
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Ulrich Sinn
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California, USA
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Posted 17 Apr 2013 2:14 pm It's my Lazy Day
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Respectfully offering 16 bars of Tom Morrell dobro playing.
But you'll have to figure out how to make music out of this.
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