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Topic: Recommend a newbie some great pedal steel record |
Terje Larson
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Rinkeby, Spånga, Sweden
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Posted 10 May 2005 12:21 am |
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I'm new here and I need to listen to more pedal steel guitar. There is more than just a simple reason for this. I'm not really playing pedal steel, I'm playing elelctric slide balalajka. I sometimes try to emulate the sound of a pedal steel on my instrument. It's not really possible but sometimes I get reasonably close. I use a volume pedal and try to phrase like a pedal steel player would. For this reason I ask you to recommend me some good recordings. I'm as interested in back-up playing as I am in soloing, infact maybe more into the back.up thing. I play mostly blues and jazz myself but I'm open to all kinds of good music. I ask you here on this forum cause I think you know something about it and also this way I can stop bugging my good friend Mike Perlowin about this cause he has too much to do.
I have one record (except Mike's two recordings) and that's Steel Guitar Jazz with Buddy Emmons. It's not his best I've been told although it's not bad at all. I also have some older recordings with Bob Wills, but that's lap steel, right? And yeah, some of the stuff on those Sacred Steel recordings is pedal steel too, and some of it is great.
Anyway, all recommendations will be appreciated thankfully, although I may not be able to listen to it all. Anything that's more in the blues or jazz field might be a little more intersting for me but I need to listen to more country too so why not.
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If you can't hear the others you're too loud, if you can't hear yourself you've gone deaf[This message was edited by Terje Larson on 10 May 2005 at 01:31 AM.] [This message was edited by Terje Larson on 10 May 2005 at 01:31 AM.] |
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Per Berner
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Skovde, Sweden
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Posted 10 May 2005 1:31 am
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Välkommen i gänget, Terje!
Some tips:
"On and off stage", John Hughey. The best steel album ever recorded IMHO.
"Pedalman", Weldon Myrick
"Eleven favorites", Bob Lucier
"Revisited", Lloyd Green
"Ten shades of Green", Lloyd Green
"Lloyd's of Nashville", Lloyd Green
"Nashville Sundown", Curly Chalker
"A ton of steel", Jimmie Crawford
"Steel Guitar", Buddy Emmons
"Sings Bob Wills", Buddy Emmons
"How the west was swung", Tom Morrell and the Time Warp Top Hands, a delicious series of CD's
(non-pedal mostly)
The Forum catalog is a good place to buy most of these, Steel Guitar Canada also have lots of CDs.
You have a another good resource just around the corner, Janne Lindgren's Steel Guitar Music in Skärholmen. http://www.steelguitar.nu/
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´75 Emmons p/p D10 8+4, '96 Emmons Legrande II D10 8+5, ´76 Sho-Bud Pro III Custom SD10 4+5, Peavey Nashville 1000
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Ray Minich
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Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 10 May 2005 5:42 am
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"Tom Cattin'" by Tom Brumley
"Steel & Strings" by Jimmy Day
"The Masters" by Bobbe Seymour and Jimmy Day |
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John Poston
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Albuquerque, NM, USA
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Posted 10 May 2005 7:31 am
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A great album for Steel Guitar 101 is Ray Price 'Nightlife'. It has almost everything you need to know for traditional country steel playing.
Another great album for steel that everyone always recommends is Charley Pride 'Live at Panther Hall' It's a masterwork and a landmark.
Those are very country records. For jazz there's not much better than Curly Chalker 'Big Hits on Big Steel' |
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Terje Larson
From:
Rinkeby, Spånga, Sweden
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Posted 10 May 2005 8:56 am
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| I have the Tom Morell CD, forgot to tell. That was one of Mike's recommendations. Thanks for the tips, I'll check it out. [This message was edited by Terje Larson on 10 May 2005 at 09:57 AM.] |
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