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Cartwright Thompson
Post  Posted 19 Jul 2015 4:08 am    
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Kind of cool:
http://youtu.be/3l4ksqA6EhE

Who's playing steel?
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Jon Light


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Saugerties, NY
Post  Posted 19 Jul 2015 4:27 am    
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Gene Phillips's wiki says

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He joined the St Louis bands of Dewey Jackson and Jimmy Powell and was later taught lap steel guitar by Floyd Smith.

Floyd's wiki points to this Andy Kirk recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5m4M33LtM

...which I can't say does much for me.

Your Steelin' the Blues is a whole lot more musical. I'd lean toward speculating that it is in fact Gene P on the steel guitar.
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Mitch Drumm

 

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Post  Posted 22 Jul 2015 3:47 am    
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That is Gene Phillips on steel. He also played standard guitar.

He made a lot of recordings under his own name in Southern California in the late 1940s and 1950s in a R and B/jump blues style. There's at least one CD available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz0X5OP6utE

He also played steel on a couple of Wynonie Harris's recordings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtWhgejc-9E
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Bill Leff


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Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Post  Posted 24 Jul 2015 7:51 am     Re: Steelin' the Blues...not Jerry
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Cartwright Thompson wrote:
Kind of cool:
http://youtu.be/3l4ksqA6EhE

Who's playing steel?


I think this is really cool! Love the 40s/50s jump blues style with piano, upright bass, sax, drums etc and it's refreshing to hear someone playing steel guitar phrasing (if a bit crudely) in that style. Nice and raw.

Thanks for sharing - loved it.
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Doug Beaumier


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Northampton, MA
Post  Posted 24 Jul 2015 9:11 am    
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Yes, it's raw... and I like it! He's very good with the "boo-wah" tone control too.
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