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Topic: Steel Player: Ferlin Huskey-I Feel Better All Ov |
Mel Culbreath
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Waynesville, NC, USA
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Posted 3 Jul 2004 7:11 am |
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I feel better all over - Ferlin Huskey
Anyone know who played steel on this one?
You can hear it at http://recordlady.webgcs.com/main2.htm
It is on Real Country ARCHIVES, Page 5.
Thanks,
Mel[This message was edited by Mel Culbreath on 03 July 2004 at 08:13 AM.] |
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 3 Jul 2004 7:22 am
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This is only a hunch...based not on a single fact buy relying on my ear....100%
My best guess is DON DAVIS..........
The solo sounds very much like the original Don Helms but the back-up work DOES NOT. Of course, Helms could have been much, much younger in his playing experience. |
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Kenny Dail
From:
Kinston, N.C. R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Jul 2004 8:33 am
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The great DON HELMS.
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kd...and the beat goes on...
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Walter Stettner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 3 Jul 2004 2:21 pm
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Right! Don played a lot of great stuff in the 50's and early 60's, lots of great artists used him on record like Patsy Cline ("Walkin' After Midnight"), Cowboy Copas, the Wilburn Brothers, he even recorded an album with Johnny Cash!
Kind Regards, Walter
www.austriansteelguitar.at.tf
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 4 Jul 2004 11:48 am
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| Hummmmmmmmmmm, at first I thought, but then, it seemed as though, I guess I could walk across the road, bang on Don's door,ask him, then I could drive down the street a couple of blocks and ask Joe Vincent if it was him, but you know what, somehow it just doesn't seem important enough to bother these great legends. Howard White said it wasn't him, so did Billy Robinson, --------------------------------- [This message was edited by BobbeSeymour on 04 July 2004 at 03:52 PM.] |
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Jim Florence
From:
wilburton, Ok. US * R.I.P.
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Posted 6 Jul 2004 4:04 pm
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| Hey Bob, I'm confused about your belittling Mel's question. By suggesting that it wasn't that important. I'm impressed that you live so close to those legends, I'm sure from my previous conversations with Don, that he would not be offended, if asked such a question. B E doesn't mind being asked. And finally I'm on your mailing list, and have ordered lots of mchdse from you, and in "Bobbe's tips" more than once you have mentioned the compassion displayed by the greats;Are you failing to display your own message?. Just my opinion. |
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Mel Culbreath
From:
Waynesville, NC, USA
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Posted 6 Jul 2004 6:42 pm
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Thanks to all who took their time to answer my question. I am not very knowledgeable about who played steel on most of the country music records because they were not mentioned on the record covers. The only ones I had heard of were Jerry Byrd, Roy Wiggins, Alvino Rey, and Speedy West. I had never heard of Buddy Emmons until I saw his "Steel Guitar Jazz" album on sale in a department store in the late sixties.
I discovered the Steel Guitar Forum through Alta Vista shortly after b0b started it and lurked for at least a year before I posted anything. Just about everything I know about country music and the steel guitar I have learned through the Forum.
Jim, I too was a little puzzled at Bobbe's response, but have learned from years of reading his posts that you have to take the good with the bad. Thankfully, there is much more good than bad. I was so offended by his post that I decided not to play his CD this week. ;-)
Mel
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Bobbe Seymour
From:
Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 9 Jul 2004 5:44 am
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Jim,and Mel, your point very well taken, you are correct. It did look as though I belittled the questioner(Mel), It was a very lame attempt at humor. Actually I personally did a lot of research to find out the correct answer to this question. I was working with Ferlin myself not long after this tune was recorded.
Also, since you know that I am writing a book on the history of steel guitar, this very question IS important to me. So who cares?---> I do! Along witn many of us. Please accept my apoligies, along with anyone else I may have offended. Everyone in this industry means way too much to me, along with their feelings for me to ever mean to offend anyone.
I'll always be here to answer any question I can for anyone. Now, it does seriously look like Don Helms was the guilty party (player,ha!).
And I'd also like to thank Jack Stoner and Jimmy Peppers for aiming me in the correct direction.
Thank you guys for your response to my seemingly wrong attitude.
Mel, No "belittling" intended, I have great respect for all the "Legenary players", as I do for you. I'm in the process of devoting much of my life to this book which will pay tribute to the pedal steel industry and players for many hundreds of years to come.
YES! Everything is important. Thank you again guys, I stand happily reprimanded.
Your friend
bobbe [This message was edited by BobbeSeymour on 09 July 2004 at 06:55 AM.] |
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Charles Curtis
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Posted 9 Jul 2004 5:53 am
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| You are the man Bobbe. |
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Mel Culbreath
From:
Waynesville, NC, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2004 6:26 am
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Bobbe,
Your CD is now back in rotation on my jukebox. 
Thanks all,
Mel |
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Jim Florence
From:
wilburton, Ok. US * R.I.P.
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Posted 11 Jul 2004 1:04 pm
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Me too
Jim |
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