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Fred Rogan

 

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Post  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


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Post  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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Post  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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Post  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

 

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Post  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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Post  Posted 4 Dec 2019 6:16 am     Paul Franklin Christmas Album
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Here is a sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBa4lfKL1L4

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Fred Rogan

 

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Post  Posted 4 Dec 2019 7:49 am    
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Thanks Roy!
That was amazing!
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Glenn Suchan

 

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Post  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

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Dave Grothusen


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Post  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


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Post  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


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Post  Posted 10 Dec 2019 5:48 am    
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Dave:
He did 2 with Tom Brumley, one in 1965 and the other in 1968. Both can be bought on Ebay at the following links.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/OWENS-BUCK-Christmas-With-Buck-Owens-UK-IMPORT-CD-NEW/274113764960?epid=3358567&hash=item3fd2741e60:g:GZgAAOSwxORd2~su

https://www.ebay.com/itm/OWENS-BUCK-Christmas-Shopping-UK-IMPORT-CD-NEW/274113764929?epid=115446521&hash=item3fd2741e41:g:l70AAOSwd0pd2~sr
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Michael Holland


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Post  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


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Post  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

 

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Post  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


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Litchfield, MN, USA
Post  Posted 16 Dec 2019 8:54 am    
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Was he playing steel?

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Kerry Johnson


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Post  Posted 21 Dec 2019 3:37 pm    
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I played on a quick demo session last week for a childrens christmas song for their young kids.

https://album.link/5z6jzz0jfd0tn

https://www.thebrantleyfamilyband.com/
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Franklin

 

Post  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

Merry Christmas,
Paul Franklin
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Dave Campbell


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Post  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

 

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Post  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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Post  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


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Post  Posted 24 Dec 2020 1:21 pm    
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Tommy White

 

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Post  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

 

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Santa Monica, CA
Post  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


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Post  Posted 25 Dec 2020 6:19 pm    
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Glenn Suchan wrote:
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


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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Kerry Johnson


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Post  Posted 25 Dec 2020 7:38 pm    
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Thanks for adding your playing to this "Celebration of Christmas" list.

LINK: https://www.amazon.com/This-Gift-Gary-Chapman/dp/B001BHE2IC/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&hvadid=77996736006652&hvbmt=bb&hvdev=c&hvqmt=b&keywords=gary+chapman+christmas&qid=1608953575&s=dmusic&sr=1-1&tag=mh0b-20


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