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Topic: Lessons/Atlanta | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 3 Views: 630 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 8 Apr 2024 5:45 pm Subject: Lessons/Atlanta |
Check with Tim Hamilton also. | |
Topic: Big Jim Murphy with Carl Smith Faded Love | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 4 Views: 792 |
Forum Section: Steel on the Web Posted: 20 Mar 2024 7:40 pm Subject: Big Jim Murphy with Carl Smith Faded Love |
Big Jim played as close to Curly as anyone....
My Favorit Carl Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOOQeCXRqVY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmS_q05sAcg All good stuff. Sometimes I think he ... |
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Topic: Seeing Nashville for the First Time | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 4 Views: 677 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 12 Mar 2024 7:10 pm Subject: Seeing Nashville for the First Time |
Go out to where the Opry is. On Music Valley Drive there are three clubs in the same parking lot. Music City Bar and Grill, Scoreboard, and Nashville Palace. Don’t miss the Music City Playboys Wedne ... | |
Topic: Slim & Penny's latest single "Waiting For Sleep To Come" | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 11 Views: 1104 |
Forum Section: Steel on the Web Posted: 26 Feb 2024 7:33 pm Subject: Slim & Penny's latest single "Waiting For Sleep To Come" |
Really great stuff Slim and Penny! Nice arrangement and production and I love your lush steel chords. | |
Topic: remembering Ray Harrison | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 7 Views: 792 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 24 Feb 2024 5:37 pm Subject: remembering Ray Harrison |
Great playing by everyone. You sounded mighty fine Frank.
I met Ray when I first attended the SWSGA show 15 or so years ago. He introduced himself and treated me like a long lost brother from the ... |
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Topic: What year/make is my MSA? | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 8 Views: 1377 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 22 Feb 2024 7:18 pm Subject: What year/make is my MSA? |
Model number would have been CD-10 if it was a D10, or CD-12 if it was a D12, indicating a double-neck mica "Classic" guitar (one of the very early "Micro" examples.) If I had to ... | |
Topic: Instrumental Steel Guitar Jazz Albums | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 29 Views: 3036 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 9 Feb 2024 5:40 pm Subject: Instrumental Steel Guitar Jazz Albums |
Try this:
https://on.soundcloud.com/5oFoXq7hHL5H4Qsx6 Maurice Anderson with Johnny Case on the little know 1970’s LP “Contrasts In Jazz” One extended improv tune per side. |
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Topic: Till I Get It Right - Steel Instrumental | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 14 Views: 1415 |
Forum Section: Steel on the Web Posted: 26 Jan 2024 8:29 pm Subject: Till I Get It Right - Steel Instrumental |
Well done and great touch and note choices on the fiddle too, my friend! | |
Topic: Nashville Bar Association... | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 15 Views: 1731 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 25 Jan 2024 6:48 pm Subject: Nashville Bar Association... |
When I was a wee tyke I listened to the Sho~Bud Showcase on WSM after the Midnight Jamboree. One night Jack Boles interviewed one of the principles of this record. A long time ago but I think it was C ... | |
Topic: Nashville Bar Association... | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 15 Views: 1731 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 25 Jan 2024 6:43 pm Subject: Nashville Bar Association... |
Check with Pat Coyne on Facebook. He owns a CD production company and did most of Russ’s stuff. | |
Topic: TSGA 2024 Show | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 19 Views: 10010 |
Forum Section: Upcoming Event Announcements Posted: 22 Jan 2024 5:51 pm Subject: TSGA 2024 Show |
The hotel had rooms available today. Call the Marriott 800 number instead of going online.
Good luck |
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Topic: Sho~Bud Fingertip Pedals? | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 5 Views: 4210 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 16 Jan 2024 5:34 pm Subject: Sho~Bud Fingertip Pedals? |
Thanks Ricky. Back before knee levers became more prevalent I suppose. | |
Topic: Sho~Bud Fingertip Pedals? | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 5 Views: 4210 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 15 Jan 2024 4:15 pm Subject: Sho~Bud Fingertip Pedals? |
My memory is that the old fingertips had 9 pedals with six on the back neck.. Maybe I’m wrong. If not, what were the typical pulls on the “extra” pedal on the C6 neck? | |
Topic: C6 String 1 Question | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 18 Views: 1161 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 13 Jan 2024 8:32 pm Subject: C6 String 1 Question |
pretty sure Doug Jernigan has a high G which he tunes down to D depending on the song. if it works for Doug, it works for me..
Actually Doug does the opposite. He tunes up to G for Streets of Lare ... |
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Topic: SWSGA Show 2024 | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 47 Views: 33253 |
Forum Section: Upcoming Event Announcements Posted: 3 Jan 2024 7:53 pm Subject: SWSGA Show 2024 |
I got nuthin'
.. any requests? Me too. Talking to another player yesterday, it seems a common theme is that about now is when we start saying “why did I sign up for this!” Maybe t ... |
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Topic: Another gig with no rehearsal. Archtop w/ singer & quartet | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 1 Views: 1035 |
Forum Section: Music Posted: 30 Dec 2023 8:09 pm Subject: Another gig with no rehearsal. Archtop w/ singer & quartet |
Nice and thanks for posting. | |
Topic: Steve Hinson's Brand X Cases | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 23 Views: 11966 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 30 Dec 2023 7:55 pm Subject: Steve Hinson's Brand X Cases |
Funny that this topic resurfaces now…..
Yesterday I had the pleasure of talking with Randy Beavers for a while. This may have been discussed before but he says he used his Danny Bentley era fibe ... |
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Topic: How to sound like Chalker on C6 | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 22 Views: 7753 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 13 Dec 2023 7:24 pm Subject: How to sound like Chalker on C6 |
There may be others that are less known, at least to me, but Jim Murphy and Johnny Cox would be the two best known for playing Curly’s style. There’s a lot of Curly’s style in John Hughy’s C6 ... | |
Topic: Buddy Emmons - How about it! | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 19 Views: 7716 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 13 Dec 2023 7:16 pm Subject: Buddy Emmons - How about it! |
Here’s another fascinating thing about that recording, as was told to me. Buddy had the charts and sent them to everyone. There was intent to have a rehearsal but it never happened. So this was play ... | |
Topic: How to sound like Chalker on C6 | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 22 Views: 7753 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 11 Dec 2023 5:33 pm Subject: How to sound like Chalker on C6 |
I posted the Merle Travis LP with Curly Chalker on here a while ago. My favorite LP of his is More Ways To Play, however.
I love that one too and you might be right now that I think of it. I’m gl ... |
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Topic: How to sound like Chalker on C6 | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 22 Views: 7753 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 10 Dec 2023 8:12 pm Subject: How to sound like Chalker on C6 |
Chalker's "gutting" technique is hard to really master! As Doug says, it was kind of an explosive swell immediately after the picking motion, and it always reminded me of a mellow Hammond B ... | |
Topic: Hank Garland Movie (Biography?) Crazy | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 18 Views: 9441 |
Forum Section: Music Posted: 6 Dec 2023 9:27 pm Subject: Hank Garland Movie (Biography?) Crazy |
Oops! I did interchange the two songs when responding to Fred. My bad. | |
Topic: Tattoo | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 15 Views: 4589 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 6 Dec 2023 9:09 pm Subject: Re: Hi |
I need a black lined drawing of a steel guitar. I fancy a 2” x 1” tattoo. 😀 or even 3” x 2”. Any artists out there. ?
Brian Gattis is a steel player here in Atlanta, GA and one of th ... |
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Topic: Hank Garland Movie (Biography?) Crazy | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 18 Views: 9441 |
Forum Section: Music Posted: 5 Dec 2023 6:21 pm Subject: Hank Garland Movie (Biography?) Crazy |
Great article - thanks for posting, Scott! Weird timing: just last night ABC-TV national news did a segment on Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" finally reaching #1 on Billbo ... | |
Topic: Hank Garland Movie (Biography?) Crazy | |
Bill Cunningham Replies: 18 Views: 9441 |
Forum Section: Music Posted: 5 Dec 2023 6:14 pm Subject: Hank Garland Movie (Biography?) Crazy |
Thanks Scott, that’s a lot of info.
Doesn’t seem to be any corroboration of Brother Billy’s conspiracy theories. Interesting comments by Chet, Harold, and Owen. Maybe they were actuall ... |
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