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Topic: When were the LAST Country records done with non-pedal? |
Jim Fogarty
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Phila, Pa, USA
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Posted 30 Dec 2019 8:50 pm |
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Was just thinking about this today, and I figured someone here would know.
Putting aside latter-day "revival" and retro sounds.......and more rock lap steel sounds.........does anyone have an idea what were some of the last non-pedal recordings on country recordings, before the PSG took over? Late 50's, early 60's, I'm guessing. Who were the players trying to fight the tide of pedal-mania that was about to wash them under?
Very curious to hear what was the state of the art non-pedal playing at the time.
Ideas or suggestions? |
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J Fletcher
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London,Ont,Canada
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Posted 31 Dec 2019 7:51 am
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Lots of non pedal in this one. Plus there's a shout-out to the steel player in the solo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI_Iox-W4p0
Charley Pride, Gone on the other hand. From 1967 or so . |
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Glenn Wilde
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California, USA
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Posted 31 Dec 2019 8:56 am
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That sounds great, I'll have to keep an eye out for that record.
It seems like Charley is purposely going for an old time sound, i think the OP is right about late '50s early '60s as being the time when everybody went to pedals almost across the board. |
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Bill Sinclair
From:
Waynesboro, PA, USA
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Posted 31 Dec 2019 9:18 am
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Kayton Roberts toured with Hank Snow into the 90's, specifically because Snow preferred non-pedal. Certainly an outlier though and I don't know when Hank's last recordings with non-pedal were.
Probably when Jerry Byrd left Nashville for Hawaii in the early 70's is a pretty good demarcation for the end of electric lapsteel in Nashville recording. It's been a while since I read his autobiography (which isn't exactly chronological) but I had the impression that he was doing more society and hotel lounge gigs than recording in the years before he left.
Dobro seems to have had a continued presence in Bluegrass but I think it was pretty dead in country recording too until Jerry Douglas and Mike Auldridge revived it. I assume you're speaking more to electric non-pedal though.
Interesting thread, I expect I'll be corrected by forum members much more knowledgeable than me. |
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Wally Pfeifer
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Illinois, USA
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Posted 31 Dec 2019 9:32 am
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Whatever the years are,- I prefer non-pedal but I have hundreds of LPs of both and they're all for sale.[img]
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Also have hundreds of CDs for sale. |
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