Another song from the show---the outro number--I listened thru out of respect for well produced, well crafted music but it is a bit trying on my patience. This is only very rarely my thing (the second song).
New York Minute. My wife and I liked this classic better than the first song by far - go figure…
We also noticed that David was oddly under dressed compared to the rest of the band. Usually that's the drummers forte.
You know---I'm basing everything on the 'knowledge' that Milo Deering did the sessions but I have no basis for clinging to that 'fact'. This thread seems to zero in on that but....
Sure looks like it Jon, nice thing is the close-up pan of the Emmons logo on the steel during the solo, cool tribute to Buddy whether it was intended or not.
If the whole Cd is like that, I'll being buying it. Funny how Don(H) has returned to his roots.
Regards, Craig
I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.
David Mansfield has been working as a session musician in L.A. since the 70s. I remember seeing him play with Dylan at the Universal Amphitheater in 1979 and he played a number of stringed instruments - lap steel and mandolin among them. He seemed pretty young at the time and Dylan made a big fuss over David when he introduced the band saying he was "very talented" and his "secret weapon". In the 80s I recorded him on an album I was involved with as an engineer by a short lived country rock supergroup called "Black Tie" which featured Billy Swan,Randy Meisner from the Eagles and the late Jimmy Griffin from the band "Bread" as well as a lot of other well known pickers and singers like T-Bone Burnett "guesting". I remember David playing on a lot of L.A. recording dates including the Black Tie record with the "3 Davids" - David Kemper on drums,David Minor on bass and David Mansfield on whatever. As far as I know David was never a bar band guy like most of us L.A. steel pickers. I dunno if that's good or bad......
In the 80s I recorded him on an album I was involved with as an engineer by a short lived country rock supergroup called "Black Tie" which featured Billy Swan,Randy Meisner from the Eagles and the late Jimmy Griffin from the band "Bread" as well as a lot of other well known pickers and singers like T-Bone Burnett "guesting".
Michael, I seem to recall Alan Rich as being a part of that Black Tie entourage but I could be mistaken. It was a long time ago..
There's no hint of the steeler on the liner notes/CD cover for the "Cass County" CD so far as my research has turned up... but then again it's incomplete research...
Lawyers are done: Emmons SD-10, 3 Dekleys including a D10, NV400, and lots of effects units to cover my clams...
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Postby Mark Eaton »
Craig, there was another short thread about steel on the new Henley album, but that one seems to be sliding into the archives.
But for the sake of discussion, below is what I wrote on the other thread last Friday after buying the CD.
So, here I'm thinking that I did my due diligence and got the official Deluxe Edition at Wal-Mart with 16 songs as compared the regular edition containing only 12, and when I get home to write this post, I find out that there is an even more Deluxe Edition only available at Target with two additional songs. Dumb a$$!
At any rate, to answer the steel player questions re the 16 song Deluxe edition, here you go:
2. “The Cost of Living” (featuring Merle Haggard) - pedal/Milo
3. “No, Thank You” - pedal/Milo, lap steel/Jerry Douglas
4. “Waiting Tables” - pedal/Milo
5. “Take A Picture of This” - pedal steel/Russ Pahl
6. “Too Far Gone” - pedal/Milo
7. “That Old Flame” (featuring Martina McBride) - no steel
8. “The Brand New Tennessee Waltz” - pedal/Milo
9. “Words Can Break Your Heart” - pedal steel/Russ Pahl
10. “When I Stop Dreaming” (featuring Dolly Parton) - Pedal steel Milo & Dan Dugmore
11. “Praying for Rain” - pedal/Milo
12. “Too Much Pride” - pedal steel/Jim Hoke
13. “She Sang Hymns Out of Tune” - pedal steel & dobro/Dan Dugmore
14. “Train In The Distance” - dobro/Rob Ickes
15. “A Younger Man” - pedal/Milo
16. “Where I Am Now” - pedal steel/Jim Hoke
Bear in mind that this album took a long time to come together which might explain the multiple steel players. When I posted the quote from Jerry Douglas earlier about his experience working with Henley, Jerry wrote that on his forum in 2011.
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Man, that regular, deluxe and super deluxe crap really makes you want to hit someone. I got shorted (not knowing about a deluxe version) on the Vince/Paul Bakersfield CD. Cut this shit out, people!
Jon, I agree, a few extra songs included on the deluxe version, I didn't even know till I got it home. Lucky me, funny how it was only offered at Walmart.
The Bakersfield CD I bought off Amazon wasn't the deluxe one, which I think was only available at Cracker Barrel, of which there are non around where I live.
Guess I'm a fossil who still likes to own a hard copy anyway.
Regards, Craig
I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.
Man, that regular, deluxe and super deluxe crap really makes you want to hit someone. I got shorted (not knowing about a deluxe version) on the Vince/Paul Bakersfield CD. Cut this shit out, people!
chris ivey wrote:yeah i know mark. i heard some pretty stuff in the background. i was just disappointed overall. i was expecting something better from don. this style didn't do it for me.
that guy did look a little like jeff newman with no personality, though.
