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Trent Harris


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Post  Posted 13 Apr 2017 8:01 am    
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Who played steel on Connie Smith's I'll Come Running? Heard it this morning and it was some really cool playing.
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Jeff Garden


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Post  Posted 13 Apr 2017 8:15 am    
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That was Mr. Weldon Myrick, Trent.
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Trent Harris


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Post  Posted 13 Apr 2017 8:28 am    
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thanks sir
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Jeff Garden


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Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA
Post  Posted 13 Apr 2017 9:05 am    
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Weldon was one of the most recorded steel players ever, Trent...check out this list of credits! http://www.allmusic.com/artist/weldon-myrick-mn0000202168/credits
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Larry Baker

 

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Post  Posted 14 Apr 2017 12:00 pm    
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Connie uses that song when auditioning for a new steel player. However, now, why would she be looking for another one. (not saying that she is)
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Henry Matthews


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Post  Posted 18 Apr 2017 6:25 am    
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong but as the story goes, the little chicken picking runs in the song I'll Come Running, were warm up exercises that Weldon did before a performance. Connie later on wrote the words to fit in and around Weldon's picking exercise.
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Roger Crawford


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Post  Posted 18 Apr 2017 7:21 am    
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Henry, I've heard from reliable sources that your story is correct!
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Joachim Kettner


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Post  Posted 18 Apr 2017 8:49 am    
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Here's the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUCXf5ecjtI
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Keith Hilton

 

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Post  Posted 18 Apr 2017 1:26 pm    
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Two different steel guitar things have haunted me for all of my life.
#1 Into Weldon did on "I'll Come Runnin"
#2 Ride Dicky Overby did on Johnny Bush's "I'll Be There".
If you can play these two things consider yourself lucky. I know how to play these two things, but still can't play them correctly. It still bothers me every time I think about it. I want to play them and still can't.
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Bill Moran

 

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Virginia, USA
Post  Posted 18 Apr 2017 1:31 pm    
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Kinda like Buddy Emmons on George Strait's Adalida. I never quite got it right but nobody else has either !
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David Mitchell

 

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Tyler, Texas
Post  Posted 26 Apr 2017 1:19 pm    
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I love Connie Smith. A real Country singer! What other artist would build a song around a steel guitar? I've tried recording what Weldon played here and can chicken pick and block that fast okay but it sounds like it has a speech impediment. It's hard to make it spew out like machine gun fire in perfect time without losing a fraction of the beat. You can tell Weldon did his homework before he got around to recording this. Gary Carter comes about as close as any I have heard.
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Henry Matthews


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Texarkana, Ark USA
Post  Posted 26 Apr 2017 2:02 pm    
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David Mitchell wrote:
I love Connie Smith. A real Country singer! What other artist would build a song around a steel guitar? I've tried recording what Weldon played here and can chicken pick and block that fast okay but it sounds like it has a speech impediment. It's hard to make it spew out like machine gun fire in perfect time without losing a fraction of the beat. You can tell Weldon did his homework before he got around to recording this. Gary Carter comes about as close as any I have heard.


Gary does a good job but Wimpy nailed on Nashville now back in the 80's.
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Bill Cunningham


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Atlanta, Ga. USA
Post  Posted 26 Apr 2017 2:16 pm    
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I believe I read that those licks were a practice exercise Weldon had worked up and he found a place to apply them in a session.
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David Mitchell

 

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Tyler, Texas
Post  Posted 26 Apr 2017 4:56 pm    
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Henry I saw that video of Larry Sasser backing Connie Smith and yes he did nail it! Someone posted it last year and I've been searching YouTube ever since to hear it again and can not find it. I've searched "Connie Smith, Grand Ole Opry" and went through 50 pages one night and could not find it. I know it exist because I saw it. I would really like to see it again if anyone could provide the link.
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Henry Matthews


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Texarkana, Ark USA
Post  Posted 26 Apr 2017 5:05 pm    
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David, the show was Nashville Now with Ralph Emory, but I haven't been able to find the episode either.
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David Mitchell

 

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Tyler, Texas
Post  Posted 26 Apr 2017 5:07 pm    
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Okay Thanks Henry! At least that will get me in the right state.
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Henry Matthews


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Texarkana, Ark USA
Post  Posted 26 Apr 2017 5:14 pm    
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https://youtu.be/XLSAaKtf6w4

Check out this guy, don't know who it is but he nailed it.
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David Mitchell

 

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Tyler, Texas
Post  Posted 27 Apr 2017 6:17 am    
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He's got the licks down but only about half as fast and half as clean as Weldon's recording but most everyone else pales in comparison too so no biggy.
Weldon in his prime was a monster picker.
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Per Berner


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Skövde, Sweden
Post  Posted 27 Apr 2017 6:42 am    
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Weldon (my biggest hero alongside Lloyd) is fantastic on "I'll come running", but check out John Hughey's instrumental version from circa 1976. Mind blowing stuff, way better!
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Marco Schouten


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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Post  Posted 27 Apr 2017 9:05 am    
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Great playing by Weldon. I also like Lloyd's playing on the Warner Mack version of the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2_XgpcVfeg
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Roger Rettig


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Naples, FL
Post  Posted 27 Apr 2017 10:05 am    
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Wow! I can't imagine playing that fast and that clean.

It's even harder to imagine doing it 'under the gun' with the red light on.

Lloyd is super-human.
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Henry Matthews


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Texarkana, Ark USA
Post  Posted 27 Apr 2017 10:18 am    
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Roger Rettig wrote:
Wow! I can't imagine playing that fast and that clean.

It's even harder to imagine doing it 'under the gun' with the red light on.

Lloyd is super-human.


Yeh, that durn red light kills me too, lol
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