Me & Dickey Overby

Nick Reed · Post by **Nick Reed** » 6 Jan 2008 2:03 pm

Got to see Dickey playing saturday night in Nashille at the Troubadour Theatre. He was with Miss Amber Digby. Wow, what a show, he absolutely knocked us out and had that Sho-Bud screamin!

Bobby Caldwell · Post by **Bobby Caldwell** » 6 Jan 2008 4:31 pm

Dickey is something else. He plays steel guitar and country music the way I want to hear it. Dickey I love your playin' and I love you too pal. Bobby

Dave Diehl · Post by **Dave Diehl** » 6 Jan 2008 4:36 pm

If there ever was such a thing as "making a steel guitar cry" Dickey sure knows how to do it.

Nick Reed · Post by **Nick Reed** » 8 Jan 2008 7:47 pm

Dave,
You sure right about ole Dickey. He can really make that guitar cry, but put a smile on every Steel Players face when they hear him.
Nick

www.thecountryjunctionband.com

Jim Walker · Post by **Jim Walker** » 8 Jan 2008 8:20 pm

Nick! You lucky dogg! I'm a big Dicky fan that's for sure. I've never met him or seen him live but I want to. BADDDD...

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 8 Jan 2008 8:40 pm

Dicky and Amber, a double shot of great.

Alan Rudd · Post by **Alan Rudd** » 9 Jan 2008 7:07 pm

Man, I'm jealous, Nick! I love Dickey. My favorite is Ronnie Milsap's Live album, featuring Dickey. Love the new look you're sportin', too. The whiskers are cool!

Keith Hilton · Post by **Keith Hilton** » 9 Jan 2008 9:51 pm

I love Dicky's playing!

Mark Greenway · Post by **Mark Greenway** » 9 Jan 2008 10:59 pm

Hello cousin Alan Rudd. If you are going to boast about Dickey, then I am too. I fell in love with this certain steel guitar sound that I heard quite often when i got my XM radio, listening to Hank's Place which is Willie's now. I said to myself, Those are the licks and the sound that I want to sound like. Who is this guy. Well, I didn't know it at the time, but I had fallen in love with the great taste and feel of Dickey Overby. Every time I turn on the XM radio now, I am hoping to hear Dickey playing those cool licks and phrases. Thanks for posting the picture Nick, of you and Dickey. Can you tell me what amp he was playing through?

Nick Reed · Post by **Nick Reed** » 10 Jan 2008 1:00 am

Hello Mark Greenway,
Great to finally meet you here on the forum. Your cousin Alan told me alot about you back when he was playing in my band. Anyway in answer to your question, Dickey was using a Fender Twin Reverb (mic'ed through the house system) and just a Boss RV-3 like I use. Dickey was playing his Sho-Bud Pro II Custom. He also has a 66' Rosewood Emmons P/P. That's the one he played in St. Louis. Dickey told me the Emmons is really his favorite. It solidly kicks BUTT! And you know that put a smile on my face.
Nick

Mark Greenway · Post by **Mark Greenway** » 10 Jan 2008 5:52 am

Hello Nick

Alan talked about a guy named Nick many times, and so you are that Nick. I am glad to meet you also. I played for Alan years ago, and that was some of the most fun I had when I played. Alan was in big demand around this area, back in the 80's and 90's. Thank you so much for the reply. I am surprised that Dickey is not playing the typical Peavey amp of some choice, like most of us. I have owned 4 Emmons ( 2 black mica, one hunter green mica and one derby red) and one MSA. I never once played through a Twin Reverb. I hope to get to try one some day. I am going to use the picture of you and Dickey as my screensaver for a while. Thanks again to you and Dickey.

Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 10 Jan 2008 9:42 am

I first heard Amber and Dickey a few years ago at Scotty's. A great Texas bunch came up and knocked us out. The group included Jake Hooker, Bobby Flores, Amber Digby, Justin Trevino with Dickey backing them all.

Timely that you should mention this, Nick. I'm just catching on to MP3 and WMA files. I decided it would be great with my single disc player in the car to have a bunch of the compact format files on a single disc. So for my first effort I tossed in all of the above-mentioned singers along with Johnny Bush and Dale Watson. I just labled it TEXAS COUNTRY. Unfortunately, it won't play in my car (yet) but it sure made transfer to my laptop here at work easy. I've been listening to Amber all morning and now Bobby is queued up.

Maybe we can get that bunch back to St. Louis real soon!

Rick Campbell · Post by **Rick Campbell** » 11 Jan 2008 6:39 pm

I want to play like Dicky when I grow up.