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Keith Hilton

 

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Post  Posted 1 Feb 2017 7:12 pm    
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Last night at the dance we did Sammy Kershaw's version of an old George Jones song. I like the intro and turn around better than George's original version. Me and the fiddle player twined the intro like Kershaw's version. When the fiddle player and I kicked this off my Evans amp and Emmons steel was screaming! Here is the link to You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ6T8UCJRDc
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John De Maille


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Post  Posted 2 Feb 2017 2:34 pm    
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That's a great steel friendly tune. I love it.
I first heard it by the Flying Burrito Brothers way beach then. I was into country rock at the time.
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Keith Hilton

 

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248 Laurel Road Ozark, Missouri 65721
Post  Posted 2 Feb 2017 5:59 pm    
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That is actually Paul Franklin on steel. It was from a George Jones tribute show. Following Sammy Kershaw was Uncle Kracker. He did my favorite George Jones song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMZUkQt2y64 It is Paul Franklin in this video also.
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Mitch Drumm

 

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Post  Posted 2 Feb 2017 7:23 pm    
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Here's the original version by the writer--circa 1956; 5 or 6 years before George ever got the song;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO1hBcgRMU8

And the same guy's much later recut:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqBEQIr8b_s


He was a fine artist, with both a rockabilly and a country persona--like George:



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David Mitchell

 

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Post  Posted 8 Feb 2017 3:11 am    
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Chuck Jennings use to do that song when we were with Tony Douglas and the Shrimpers and I also got to take Ralph Mooneys place one night on steel with Jody Payne (Willie's guitar player) and Bobby Wayne (Merle's guitar player) at a club in Texas on that song. It's one of my favorite Country shuffles.
We were having the blackeyed pea festival in Athens, Tx. and Willie and Waylon always worked it together every year. Nice to have it all going only 35 miles from my house.
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Ray Minich

 

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Post  Posted 8 Feb 2017 8:21 am    
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Video director short changed the steel.. must have a grudge...

Amber Digby did this tune several years ago. Dickey Overbey sure tore it up on that version.
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Mark Hepler

 

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Virginia, USA
Post  Posted 20 Oct 2021 5:01 am     Recycling on AXS TV
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Keith Hilton wrote:
That is actually Paul Franklin on steel. It was from a George Jones tribute show.

This old show is recycling on AXS TV's on-demand. (Fast-forward through it for steel parts.)

It's a great study in classic-country accompaniment. Franklin keeps it simple but, when it's his turn, comes at you like a brass section: mostly double stops, maybe a triad or two, not a lot of contrary motion, unison, etc.

Wish he'd tell us his thinking. Franklin referenced charts sometimes whereas Brent Mason didn't have a music stand . . . wonder if the charts were provided by the band leader, artist, or if Franklin made his own ahead of time . . . ?

We can probably all execute those licks—but with good tone, intonation, timing? Would we have kept it clean, simple, appropriate?
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Donny Hinson

 

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Post  Posted 20 Oct 2021 5:31 am     Re: Old George Jones Song
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Keith Hilton wrote:
When the fiddle player and I kicked this off my Evans amp and Emmons steel was screaming!


Could be a bad pickup, or a component in the amp that's microphonic.

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Keith Hilton

 

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248 Laurel Road Ozark, Missouri 65721
Post  Posted 20 Oct 2021 6:08 am    
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Donny screaming in a good way.
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Keith Hilton

 

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Post  Posted 20 Oct 2021 6:10 am    
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Donny screaming in a good way.
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Kenny Davis


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Post  Posted 20 Oct 2021 6:47 am    
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Might check your volume pedal...
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Craig A Davidson


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Post  Posted 20 Oct 2021 12:09 pm    
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The Byrds also had a cut on it

https://youtu.be/2zgG85Irbn8
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Rick Campbell


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Sneedville, TN, USA
Post  Posted 20 Oct 2021 5:14 pm    
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My version. It's a good song. I guess that's why people keep recording it. I enjoy hearing different versions.

https://youtu.be/WKzjraivr14


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Dennis Detweiler


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Solon, Iowa, US
Post  Posted 20 Oct 2021 6:29 pm    
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Is that Rhonda Vincent with the two guys singing harmony.

Yes, Rick, you are the utility man. Great job on all of it.
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Dave Simonis


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Post  Posted 27 Oct 2021 6:21 pm    
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My favorite version by George is not the Mercury cut but this later recut/version, I believe his Musicor era (but I would have to go through all my GJ vinyl to find it). Less steel but when his voice was a bit less honky-tonk and smoother: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Your+Still+On+My+Mind+Goerge+Jonnes&&view=detail&mid=ED31682B7189759A8545ED31682B7189759A8545&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DYour%2BStill%2BOn%2BMy%2BMind%2BGoerge%2BJonnes%26Form%3DVDRSCL%26%3D0
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Keith Hilton

 

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248 Laurel Road Ozark, Missouri 65721
Post  Posted 27 Oct 2021 7:33 pm    
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Rick you did a great job singing and playing.
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Chris Templeton


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Post  Posted 28 Oct 2021 3:00 pm    
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Very nice, Keith.
Filling the shoes.
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J R Rose

 

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Post  Posted 28 Oct 2021 6:26 pm    
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My All Time Favorite Song. And Sammy Kershaw's version in the tribute to George Jones is out standing. I never get enough of it. J.R. Rose
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