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Topic: Hearts of Texas on Dynalap (from earlier in the century) |
Charlie McDonald
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Posted 8 Aug 2015 4:00 am |
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Here's another old one I recovered on an old hard drive I rescued from the trip up North.
Written by Hill Country picking pal Pete Petre, it's got my lyrics and I believe a Dynalap doing some comping, with Pete on his Gibson classical.
The bass is my baricello, a cello rescued from a music stor dumpster with bass strings on it. The banjo is improved with nylon strings.
Hearts of Texas
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Andy Volk
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Posted 8 Aug 2015 8:46 am
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Really enjoyed that, Charlie. Thanks for posting.
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Bishop Ronnie P Hall
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 8 Aug 2015 3:18 pm
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Thanks guys! Musical nuggets is right, but we were having some fun ten or fifteen years ago.
Pete taught himself guitar and wrote some good tunes, carefully bringing out the melody in leading tones. I'd take them from there.
One of the selection, (The Guitars of Neptune Are) Gone, I really hijacked, but we remain best of friends.
I still have them on memory cards in my Zoom 4-track and am getting ready to transfer them to computer and see what I can do better
as I make the transition from hardware to DAW. I can't make the performances better (he wrote some beautiful tunes that won't make
the transition), and I'm headed in a different direction, more surf music, and there will probably be some singing, more pedal steel,
and hopefully, eventually, both at the same time.
Bish (  ), I'm going to post photos of my transitional studio 'space' on the thread with your studio pictures, so you can see what I got.
[That topic is under http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=221624&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=50]
Still having fun, but I'm older now, and that can come out in tunes I select, with newer folk music as their basis, songs that cry for words and steel.
I have meant to ask you, Bishop, what tuning you use, as I'm now guessing it's not E9, but we can discuss that later.
I see the new book on your 11th tuning Andy and am pleased to see it, as I'm heading toward E9/A, an 11th or 13th tuning; kind of exciting.
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Bishop Ronnie P Hall
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Posted 9 Aug 2015 3:13 am
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Hi Charlie! 
Though it may be 4:45AM,Sunday morning, I am awake and some what lucid, I am on my computer, and I have been enjoying your response thread. Let me address your inquiry about my tuning. Remember, if you will, I`m not too up on types of tunings like so many of our fellow musicians, (like diatonics etc.)but here is the tuning that I use. I just call it "E" Natural for a ten string. From top to bottom. 1st."E",2nd."B",3rd."G#",4th."E",5th."B",6th."E",7th."B",8th."E",9th."B",10th."E". That is it! In my learning environment which was the Pentecostal Church, we "sacred steel" players back then were not afforded the ability to learn formally how to play steel guitars,(I`m speaking of 63 years ago)which is a long story within itself). We learned to play by "Ear". Later, the opportunity presented itself, and a whole new musical world opened up as you hear today.
Now, the tour of your studio arena is fantastic, it shouts out loud:"Inspiration" as loud as can be said.
Man, you are quite the artist, in more ways than one.
I can tell that there is a history of arts, and crafts, along with what is presented in your studio view. I`m not a prophet, or anything like that, but I sense a rich life has been neglected along the way. Man, you need to really get back in the game, because you have so much to offer. I know one thing for sure, is that you have got a "fan" in me. The time has gotten away from me, I`ve got some last minute things to complete before this mornings services. So I`ll leave for now. But with all sincerity, "kick it in gear" I`ll be listening.
Ron
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