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Topic: Favorite Song You Like to Play on Lap Steel or NP Console |
C. E. Jackson
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Bill Groner
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Posted 18 Jul 2017 12:34 pm |
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I like to play along to BJ Thomas.......In the garden. Nice and slow for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj6ql4gtOEE
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 18 Jul 2017 4:42 pm
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| If not "Route 66," then "Blue Light Boogie" by Louis Jordan. |
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George Piburn
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The Land of Enchantment New Mexico
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Larry Carlson
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My Computer
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Posted 19 Jul 2017 6:12 am
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"Killing the Blues"
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David Knutson
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Cowichan Valley, Canada
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Posted 19 Jul 2017 4:19 pm
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The band I'm with plays a fair amount of Rockabilly type stuff, and adding steel to that is a blast. But if we're talking instrumentals - Panhandle Rag is always fun, but I think my favourite to play is Redskin Rag (named, as we all know, by someone who spent too much time in the sun). Actually I think Leon is credited with it.
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Joe Elk
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 19 Jul 2017 6:17 pm
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Fast song - Roadside Rag Slow song - Love Letters in the Sand Like Mac Wiseman would it.
Joe Elk Central Ohio |
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Nathan Laudenbach
From:
Montana
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Posted 19 Jul 2017 7:20 pm favorite song to play on lap steel
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| Estralita |
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Don Kona Woods
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Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 19 Jul 2017 11:16 pm
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| Sand in B11th - Song by Hawaiian composer Andy Iona |
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Larry Lenhart
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Ponca City, Oklahoma
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Posted 20 Jul 2017 5:22 am
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| Joe Elk wrote: |
Fast song - Roadside Rag Slow song - Love Letters in the Sand Like Mac Wiseman would it.
Joe Elk Central Ohio |
Joe, I agree with you Mac Wiseman is a great singer of that and all songs.
My favorite for today is "Little Brown Gal"...just something about that lilting melody that makes it fun to play, for me.
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Steffen Gunter
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Munich, Germany
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Posted 20 Jul 2017 10:08 am
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| Don Kona Woods wrote: |
| Sand in B11th - Song by Hawaiian composer Andy Iona |
+1 for "Sand"
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Larry Lenhart
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Ponca City, Oklahoma
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Posted 21 Jul 2017 11:24 am
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Robert Allen
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 21 Jul 2017 8:27 pm Re: Favorite Song You Like to Play on Lap Steel or NP Consol
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MOCKIN' BIRD HILL-FAVORITE SONG I PLAY ON LAP STEEL
C. E.  |
I remember Mockingbird Hill, great song, I play it on the dobro in standard G tuning, key of D but my favorite on the dobro is Wabash Cannonball at about double the speed of Oswald and a lot fancier. Favorite on lap steel is Georgia Steel Guitar in E tuning, key of G |
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Stefan Robertson
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Hertfordshire, UK
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Posted 22 Jul 2017 1:06 pm
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game or Body and Soul
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George Rout
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St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 23 Jul 2017 7:17 pm
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"Harbour Lights" is my most favourite tune on my lap steels. In the Key of D, on the A Major tuning, the song lays beautifully on the fretboard. Harmonics are great.
Geo
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C. E. Jackson
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Posted 5 Aug 2017 5:46 am
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Thanks to all for your great favorites. In my teenage
years, the 1950s, we had no TV, and my only source
of steel guitar music was radio. Some of my favorite steel
players were Don Helms, Little Roy Wiggins, Pete Kirby,
better known as Bashful Brother Oswald, and the
steel player for Red Sovine. Thus, my early exposure
to many different steel players was limited, and
therefore many of my favorite songs to play on
steel were, and are, from the late 1940s and 1950s.
C. E.
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Bobby Nelson
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 6 Aug 2017 1:43 am
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| Texas Playboy Rag - at the moment. |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 6 Aug 2017 6:11 am
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I agree with George: "Harbor Lights"
I remember one time I was playing in a club in Phoenix with a group for a birthday party.
A lady comes up and says: "I don't suppose you know how to play "Harbor Lights", and I said yes".
We played that song for her and she was so thrilled she cried or maybe it was just my playing.   |
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Lee D Kaiser
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California, USA
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Posted 6 Aug 2017 8:37 pm
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| I don't play a lot of lap steel, but my favorite to play is Send Me the Pillow that Doug B. does on YouTube. |
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Larry Lenhart
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Ponca City, Oklahoma
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Posted 7 Aug 2017 6:32 am
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My mood changes daily, but right now I am enjoying playing
"St Louis Blues" (Doug Beaumier's arrangement) -that tune really lays well on the C6th and its mood fits lap steel perfectly IMHO, and "Lovesick Blues" (Roy Thomson's version)-a fun song to play to get that old Hank Williams sound on C6th also. People really seem to enjoy those two tunes when I play them at the nursing homes. I figure a part of the purpose of this thread is to get ideas about songs, so I am sharing my current "favorites"
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William Hoff
From:
Missouri, USA
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Posted 9 Aug 2017 3:04 am
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| "And You And I" by Yes |
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Lee Gillespie
From:
Cheyenne, Wy. USA
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Posted 9 Aug 2017 4:03 am favorite tune
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| There are many favorite tunes I play on the lap... BUT if I had to chose one .... it would be Joanne that I learned from Roy Thomson, a great lap steel player from Nova Scotia |
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Garry Vanderlinde
From:
CA
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Posted 9 Aug 2017 4:37 am
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| Steffen Gunter wrote: |
| Don Kona Woods wrote: |
| Sand in B11th - Song by Hawaiian composer Andy Iona |
+1 for "Sand" |
+2 for "Sand"
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David M Brown
From:
California, USA
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Posted 9 Aug 2017 6:40 am
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| William Hoff wrote: |
| "And You And I" by Yes |
I have not played that on steel since the 1970's
great prog rock choice! |
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Ron Simpson
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 9 Aug 2017 8:01 am
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Sleepwalk for me. It is the only steel guitar recording to sell over a million copies, and it never fails to make me feel a whole lot younger.
Ron [/b] |
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