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Topic: Steel on Christmas Albums? |
Fred Rogan
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Birmingham, AL USA
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Posted 2 Dec 2019 5:38 pm |
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I just ran across George Strait's album, Classic Christmas. Great album and lots of nice steel. What other non-instrumental Christmas albums have good steel playing on them?
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Duncan Hodge
From:
DeLand, FL USA
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Posted 2 Dec 2019 6:35 pm
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Crash Test Dummies “Jingle All the Way†with Forum member Bob Hoffnar on several tracks
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Graham
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Marmora, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 3 Dec 2019 7:18 am
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Trisha Yearwood - The Sweetest Gift (Paul Franklin)
Various Artists - Still Believing In Christmas (Dan Dugmore,Lloyd Green,Scotty Sanders)
Ricky Van Shelton - Sings Christmas (Paul Franklin)
Dale Watson - Christmas Time In Texas (Ricky Davis)
Alan Jackson - Honky Tonk Christmas (Paul Franklin)
Sammy Kershaw - Christmas Time's A Comin' (Sonny Garrish)
Randy Travis - An Old Time Christmas (Doyle Grisham)
Various Artists - Heart Of Texas Country Christmas (Jim Loessberg, Dickey Overby)
Vince Gill - Let There Be Peace On Earth (John Hughey)
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Tommy Detamore
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Floresville, Texas
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Posted 3 Dec 2019 8:00 am
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George Strait's "Merry Christmas Strait To You" is awesome. It has been a long-standing tradition at our house to play this album first when we start decorating!
The title cut was written by Bob Kelly, a great steel player who played with Clay Blaker and Johnny Bush, and many others.
Great playing on this album by Paul Franklin, Johnny Gimble, Leland Sklar, Reggie Young, Eddie Bayers, and others...
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Fred Rogan
From:
Birmingham, AL USA
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Posted 3 Dec 2019 6:07 pm
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Great suggestions! thank you guys.
list more if you got em
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Roy Carroll
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North of a Round Rock
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Fred Rogan
From:
Birmingham, AL USA
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Posted 4 Dec 2019 7:49 am
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Thanks Roy!
That was amazing!
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Glenn Suchan
From:
Austin, Texas
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Posted 4 Dec 2019 8:47 am
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Here's one of my favorite Christmas carols, "O Holy Night" from Christmas Sounds of the Steel Guitar, by Buddy Emmons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5hB99BCkEM
Keep on pickin'!
Glenn
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Dave Grothusen
From:
Scott City, Ks
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Posted 9 Dec 2019 4:26 am
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| Buck Owens has an album with Tom Brumley. Not sure of the name. |
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Ronald Sikes
From:
Corsicana, Tx
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Posted 9 Dec 2019 4:32 am
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This one by John Anderson is great!
https://youtu.be/XEXwabe6Fhw
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Graham
From:
Marmora, Ontario, Canada
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Michael Holland
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 10 Dec 2019 5:15 pm
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I played acoustic on Cristy Lane's Christmas album in the '80s and Sonny Garrish was all over those sessions along with Fred Newell on guitar. In fact, it was working with Sonny on those Cristy sessions that inspired me to pick up the pedal steel.
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 11 Dec 2019 9:49 am
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| Buddy Emmons played on John Anderson's song "Christmas Time" |
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Zachary Smith
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2019 12:35 pm
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| This will not be for everyone but Bob Dylan made a Christmas album a few years ago and it has a lot of steel on it. More subtle playing but it’s good. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 16 Dec 2019 8:54 am
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Was he playing steel?
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Kerry Johnson
From:
the Bay Area, CA
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Franklin
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Posted 22 Dec 2019 3:27 pm
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Thanks for the mention of Strait's Christmas recordings....They were fun to make and we always recorded them mid summer....LOL
My Christmas CD was out of print for a couple decades....Thanks to the suggestion from Mike Perlowin I finally re-released it as a digital download and I wrote a complete backstory on how it was recorded for nerds like me....Its only available at Modern Music Masters blog store
https://paulfranklinmethod.com/paul-christmas-cd/comment-page-1/#comment-1458
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Dave Campbell
From:
Nova Scotia, Canada
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Posted 24 Dec 2019 3:51 am
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bill anderson's no place like home for christmas has some great steel. i'm not sure who the steel player is.
alan jackson's honky tonk christmas is my favourite. |
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Jeremy Moyers
From:
Lubbock, TX
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Posted 1 Jan 2020 5:25 pm
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| I just ran across this post, but Lonestar releases a great Christmas record when I played for them that Paul Franklin played a bunch of killer steel on. It was a Dan huff produced record so it’s on the pop side, which I love! It’s really worth getting and digging into. Great E9th and C6th parts! |
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Jeremy Moyers
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Lubbock, TX
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Posted 1 Jan 2020 5:35 pm
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| I just ran across this post, but Lonestar releases a great Christmas record when I played for them that Paul Franklin played a bunch of killer steel on. It was a Dan huff produced record so it’s on the pop side, which I love! It’s really worth getting and digging into. Great E9th and C6th parts! |
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Kerry Johnson
From:
the Bay Area, CA
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Posted 24 Dec 2020 1:21 pm
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Tommy White
From:
Nashville
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Posted 24 Dec 2020 3:46 pm
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| Gary Chapman has a wonderful Christmas album. Michael Omartian produced. Same guy produced many hits by Christopher Cross! I was allowed solo after solo . My favorite Christmas cd. |
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Marty Rifkin
From:
Santa Monica, CA
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Posted 25 Dec 2020 2:15 pm
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| Played on quite a few Christmas records (Dwight Yoakam, LeAnn Rhimes, etc.) but one that really stands out is Blue Christmas on a Sesame Street record featuring the blue characters...Cookie Monster, Grover & Herry Monster. I like that it gave me street-cred with my kids when they were really young! |
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Ken Mizell
From:
Lakeland, Florida, 33809, USA
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Posted 25 Dec 2020 6:19 pm
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That is some beautiful playing Emmons did on O Holy Night. I have the CD, and I’ve about burned a hole through that cut.
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