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Alex Cattaneo


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Post  Posted 23 Feb 2014 8:55 am    
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Aside form 1975's Lovin' & Losin', are there any other Billy Walker albums featuring Buddy? Honky Tonkitus by itself is worth the price of admission. Outstanding steel on that track.
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Peter Freiberger

 

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Post  Posted 23 Feb 2014 12:39 pm    
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I also have Billy Walker cuts with Emmons on the "Alone Again", "Life Is A Song", "20 Golden Country Hits" albums.

It looks like Buddy Emmons was on Billy Walker's records as far back as 1956. This from PragueFrank's site:

2 May 1956 [14:00-17:00] Music City Recording, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville, TN - Billy Walker (Billy Walker [vcl], Grady Martin [gt], Harold Bradley [gt], Buddy Emmons [steel], Bob Moore [bass], Farris Coursey [drums], Owen Bradley [piano]. Producer: Don Law)
065 CO 55998/OB 1121/JZSP-38544 SO FAR 4-21566/BCD-15657
066 CO 55999/OB 1122/JZSP-38545 LITTLE BAGGY BRITCHES 4-21566/BCD-15657
067 CO 56000/OB 1123/JZSP-38546 I’VE GOT LEAVIN' ON MY MIND 4-21531/BCD-15657
068 CO 56001/OB 1124/JZSP-38547 I'LL NEVER STAND IN YOUR WAY 4-21531/BCD-15657

5 April 1963 [19:00-22:00] Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville, TN - Billy Walker (Billy Walker [vcl], Grady Martin [gt], Robert Myers [gt], Ray Edenton [gt], Buddy Emmons [steel], Joseph Zinkan [bass], Buddy Harman [drums], William Pursell [piano]. Producer: Don Law)
132 CO 78449/CB 603 STORM OF LOVE 4-42794/BCD-15657
133 CO 78450/CB 604 THAT WOULD SURE GO GOOD unissued/BCD-15657
134 CO 78451/CB 605 HEART BE CAREFUL 4-42794/CS 9006 HS-11414 BCD-15657 KOC-CD-9837-2

1983 Nashville, TN – Billy Walker (Billy Walker [vcl], Dale Sellers [gt], Buddy Emmons [steel], Joe Allen [bass], Joseph E. Chrisman [drums], Bunky Keels [piano], Dennis Wilson, LaVerna Moore [bck vcl])
434 CAN I JUST CALL YOU NOW AND THEN EMH LP-1002
435 ONE AWAY FROM TOO MANY EMH LP-1002
436 I'LL NEVER LET YOU GO (LITTLE DARLIN') EMH LP-1002
437 LOOKING THROUGH THE EYES OF LOVE EMH LP-1002
438 LIFE IS A SONG EMH LP-1002
439 TILL THE TEARS SLIP AWAY EMH LP-1002
440 I DON'T WANT A THING HE'S GOT BUT YOU EMH 0023/LP-1002
441 THEN MAYBE BABY EMH LP-1002
442 GETTING BY THE BEST I CAN EMH LP-1002
443 PARDON MY ASKING EMH 0023/LP-1002

There are undoubtedly lots more with Emmons that PragueFrank doesn't have the credits on. It also doesn't help that over the years Billy Walker cut several different versions of the same titles. Lots of his other songs with Hal Rugg, Lloyd Green and Weldon Myrick are great listening as well.
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Tony Dingus

 

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Post  Posted 23 Feb 2014 7:17 pm    
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZUzchiWwDk

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Roger Kelly

 

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Post  Posted 24 Feb 2014 4:48 am    
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Tony, I thought I'd heard that Emmons kick on a Ray Price tune before.....it fits both tunes real good. Smile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aZsdS9x0eY
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Alex Cattaneo


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Quebec, Canada
Post  Posted 24 Feb 2014 6:45 am    
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You are correct Roger, and if you listen to faith Hill's Piece of my Heart, you'll hear that same lick played by Paul Franklin. Also, the break in Honky Tonkitus features the exact same lick found in George Strait's Adalida. Great stuff.
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Tony Dingus

 

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Kingsport, Tennessee, USA
Post  Posted 24 Feb 2014 7:23 pm    
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Thanks Roger, I knew I had heard that before but couldn't remember which song. That's good pickin' as Buddy always did.

Tony
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Dyke Corson

 

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Fairmount, IL USA
Post  Posted 24 Feb 2014 8:40 pm    
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Word Games
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