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Topic: Burton Steeling? |
Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 25 Jun 2006 9:28 am |
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| Was looking through Tom Wheelers guitar book yesterday,saw a picture of James Burton playing steel with Ricky Nelson,am I the only guy that did'nt know James could play steel? |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 25 Jun 2006 10:08 am
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Somewhere around here, I've got a picture of me sitting in the cockpit of a P-51 Mustang. I imagine that, decades from now, someone will say..."I never knew he was a pilot!".
I wasn't. |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 25 Jun 2006 10:18 am
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Years ago; I cut on a CD at Capitol records in hollywood with James. I brought my Dobro and he perceeded to sit down and play the sh!! outta it; then sat down to my pedal steel and did the same.
Yes the MAN can play Anything.
Ricky |
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 25 Jun 2006 3:31 pm
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I've never had the pleasure to hear him on steel but I'd heard that he played pedal steel and also used a flat pick and one fingerpick on it the same way he does on guitar or Dobro..........JH in Va.
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Don't matter who's in Austin (or anywhere else) Ralph Mooney is still the king!!!
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 25 Jun 2006 4:24 pm
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I had not seen or heard a copy of the album James did with Ralph Mooney, "Corn Pickin' And Slick Slidin'" for many years. My brother had it on vinyl a long time ago. When I found it had been re-released in America on CD, I bought a copy, and though I was aware for a long time that James played dobro, I just assumed that Moon played the dobro on the album-since he is a fine dobroist himself. I figured James would stick with the Tele on the project. Turns out that Ralph stuck with the pedals on that recording, and James did all the dobro work!
James won the Country Music Award for Best Specialty Instrument on dobro three times in the 80's, and was nominated for same in other years.
I had no clue that he can play the pedals, but then I'm not the least bit surprised.
He definitely falls under that category of "it's unfair for one man to be given so much talent."
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Mark
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ebb
From:
nj
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Posted 25 Jun 2006 4:31 pm
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| if you want a masterclass from jb on the dobro get merle's tribute to jimmy rogers |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 26 Jun 2006 9:27 am
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| I'll have to look at the photo again[the book is at my bandmates studio]but I think he was using thumb and finger picks. |
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Jim West
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Posted 26 Jun 2006 11:04 am
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James also played dobro on Buffalo Springfield's "There goes another day", at least I think that's the name of the song.
 [This message was edited by Jim West on 26 June 2006 at 12:07 PM.] |
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Pete Finney
From:
Nashville Tn.
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Posted 26 Jun 2006 11:20 am
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Not only James Burton on pedal-steel, but a Rickenbacker pedal steel in that photo... What's the story on those?
The Buffalo Springfield song is actually called: "A Child's Claim to Fame"; a Richie Furay song which he later did on the live "Poco" album.[This message was edited by Pete Finney on 26 June 2006 at 12:22 PM.] |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 27 Jun 2006 2:22 pm
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| You are right Pete,that's a Ricky. |
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Peter Dollard
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Posted 1 Jul 2006 3:54 pm
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| Jame's Dobro playing on "Claim To Fame" actually had him double tracking with two dobros one fretted and one sliding...listen close. The fretted dobro came into prominence in the early seventies in Nashville when Tom T Hall used it on a song called "Deal" |
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