Who was that steel player??

Jerry Hayes · From: Virginia Beach, Va.

Over the weekend for the donation sweeps one of our local PBS stations was running a show of vintage Grand Old Opry Stars. On one they had Ray Price doing "Crazy Arms" with the Cherokee Cowboys. On the instrumental ride it was Tommy Jackson and another fiddle player doing the first part but on the second part the steel came in but they didn't show the face of the player. There was a very good shot of the top of the steel and the player's hands. He was playing a 4 neck fender but doing pedal things. I thought it might have been one of those lip synch things as it was pedal steel on the record but I went back and watched it again on tape and lo and behold, on the 2nd neck from the outside which the player was using you could see two things going up and down in the headstock of that guitar. Probably some primitive form of pedal steel rigging maybe by Shot Jackson or someone like that. It did the job pretty well. Anyone know who that might have been playing???

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Ben Rubright · From: Punta Gorda, Florida, USA

I have an old '50's tape of Ray Price and Van Howard doing Crazy Arms. The socalled Tribute Series. The one that I have has Jack 'Curly' Evins playing steel. There is a partial view of his name that shows on the steel (which is a pedal steel). I found out the remainder of his name at an ISG convention from Buddy Emmons. Another song on the tape 'I saw my castles fall today' has Jimmy Day on the steel.

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