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tom anderson

 

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Post  Posted 21 Jul 2010 4:21 pm    
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Who is this guy? I really like his minimalist playing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIUSikXex5w&feature=fvw
Also, what kind of steel is that? I just heard a song on our local NPR station from a new album he has coming out called "Beg borrow and steal" that had great pedal steel. Maybe the same guy??
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Clyde Lane

 

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Glasgow, Kentucky, USA
Post  Posted 21 Jul 2010 4:41 pm    
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Looks like a Williams 400 Series
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Jim Palenscar

 

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Oceanside, Calif, USA
Post  Posted 21 Jul 2010 5:21 pm    
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Greg Leisz usually plays with Ray but that is not him- BJ Cole?.
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Philip Sterk

 

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Nashville, TN
Post  Posted 21 Jul 2010 6:03 pm    
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Eric Heywood
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Chris Dorch


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Wisconsin, USA
Post  Posted 21 Jul 2010 6:16 pm    
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Yep, Mr. Haywood is correct...
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Jim Palenscar

 

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Oceanside, Calif, USA
Post  Posted 21 Jul 2010 6:29 pm    
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That's right- Eric has been doing that as well.
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Joshua Grange


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Los Angeles, California
Post  Posted 22 Jul 2010 12:29 am    
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Both Eric and Greg played on the new record.
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Al Moss


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Kent,OH,USA
Post  Posted 24 Jul 2010 7:47 am    
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Nice backup voicings and solo.
Eric Heywood also was the steel man on the Pretenders-"Break Up the Concrete" album, his work there is not so subtle as it is here, as may be expected on a more rocked out country-ish trip. Nicely bookends the variety of touch and tone that the steel is doing here.
There was a nice article about Eric Heywood in one of the last print issues of No Depression magazine in which he identified his steel as an 11 string Williams. I tried counting the strings on the steel in the video and it appears to my eyes that it is an 11 stringer. 11th string being the root note of the E.
Thanks for posting the link to the video, makes me want to get the Ray LaMontagne album album now too.
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Rick Batey

 

Post  Posted 24 Jul 2010 7:56 am    
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Seeing Eric playing with Son Volt in a tiny club a few years ago made me want to take up pedal steel. He has great taste and a unique sound and approach.

Here's the Eric Heywood interview in No Depression magazine...
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Jim Palenscar

 

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Oceanside, Calif, USA
Post  Posted 24 Jul 2010 8:28 am    
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Eric was in the shop awhile ago and was asking about amps. After I demo'ed a couple in the Peavey line he was shaking his head and said that it was not the sound he was looking for- he wanted a "dirtier" sound (for the lack of a better description)- and, after hearing what he did with Son Volt I realized what he was talking about.
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Dean Parks

 

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Sherman Oaks, California, USA
Post  Posted 24 Jul 2010 10:10 am    
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In the Youtube at 3:43 there is a view of the amp... a Deluxe Reverb?

edit: I looked at the interview... road amp is likely a rented BF Deluxe reissue.
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Bryan Daste


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Portland, Oregon, USA
Post  Posted 24 Jul 2010 11:00 am    
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Great link, thanks for the video!
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Keith Cordell


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San Diego
Post  Posted 25 Jul 2010 10:07 am    
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I saw Eric with Son Volt and his amp at that show was a Vox AC50. It sounded GREAT.
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Jeremy Allen

 

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Chicago, IL, USA
Post  Posted 31 Jul 2010 7:12 pm     Heywood's Amp
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I believe Eric's main amp now is a Savage Rohr 15 made up in Minnesota. They make killer amps!
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Evan Coulombe

 

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Utah, USA
Post  Posted 24 Aug 2010 6:56 am    
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Anyone recognize the tuner mount he has on there? You can see it clearly around 0:50 And 1:15. I think it's just a boss or something in a gray mount. I was looking to do the same thing, but can't find anything about it.
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