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Elizabeth West
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Surrey, B.C., Canada
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Posted 18 Jun 2006 6:02 pm |
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Who wrote Steel guitar rag and who, recorded it for the first time.
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Jody Sanders
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Magnolia,Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 18 Jun 2006 6:12 pm
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| There is some what of a controversy over who actually wrote the tune, but Leon MCCauliffe was the first to record the tune on steel guitar. Jody. |
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Eric West
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Posted 18 Jun 2006 6:16 pm
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I remember too that Merle Travis recorded a version with the words much later than the 1936 McA version that was credited to him. I'd have to look up when the words were penned.
Spade Cooley had a nice version out with a concert harp in the intro.
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 18 Jun 2006 6:57 pm
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| Was reading an article about that the other day,supposedly there was a tune called guitar rag,before Leon wrote SGR,that was very similar,I really don't know ,just what I read,and it also said Panhandle rag was a backward version of SGR,been trying to play SGR backward just to see,have'nt been able to figure it out yet.Bet Bobbe can. |
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Herman Visser
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Rohnert Park, California, USA
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Posted 18 Jun 2006 9:45 pm
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| Elizabeth... It was Sylvester Weaver in the 20s He called it Guitar Rag. It on Slidin On The Frets Cd. b0b has it for sale. I d be more them happy to play it for in the Chat Rooms any time . Let me know when. |
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basilh
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United Kingdom
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Ernest Cawby
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Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 19 Jun 2006 4:32 am
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Try this, steel guitar rag is C6 up the frets and panhandle rag is C6 down the frets. You will find the notes there.
ernie |
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CrowBear Schmitt
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Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 19 Jun 2006 7:43 am
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i remember readin' on this wonderful forum moons ago, that some (obscure) black cat wrote "guitar rag"
some slick operator got hold of the tune & managed to make some $$$ off it
the originator was probably left sharecroppin' |
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Paul Norman
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Washington, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 19 Jun 2006 8:44 am
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The theme song version on WCKY Cinc. radio
back in the 50's was played by Joaquin Murphey altho I dont think he wrote it.
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Jesse Pearson
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San Diego , CA
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Posted 19 Jun 2006 9:30 am
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I tabbed this off of the original Bob Wills recording. Leon played it on dobro in E tuning I believe, but I record copied it with a digital sampler (Chop shop) for non pedal C6 tuning/six strings. Weaver was indeed the first to record the main licks (bottle neck blues) way before the Bob Wills band did it.
I read that Wills was doing a radio show recording and needed something fast to record and Leon came up with Steel guitar Rag, he denied ever hearing Weavers recording. When I first tabbed this song out, I was trying to get the same voicings as Leons dobro, but as Ray Monty pointed out to me, some of the voicings work better on C6 as single notes. I still mess around with this tune as far as playing the theme and then soloing off the top of my head with trick hick sounding licks.
I see people request it from time to time on the tab section of the forum, so here it is again:
http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum8/HTML/001864.html
[This message was edited by Jesse Pearson on 19 June 2006 at 10:36 AM.] |
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Elizabeth West
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Surrey, B.C., Canada
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Posted 19 Jun 2006 3:28 pm
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Thanks for all the info guys, you rock
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