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Topic: Historically Significant Steel in Cowboy Music |
Chris Bauer
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Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 4 Dec 2017 6:49 am |
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Looking for your help with memory jogs and eye-openers here...
On very short notice, I have to prep for a radio show interview on steel guitar in cowboy music. I have my own list of what feels historically significant but know my memory (or lack of it) well enough to know that I'm surely leaving out some combination of significant songs and players.
What events and which songs/players are on your list of what the non-steel-playing public ought to know?
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 4 Dec 2017 8:27 am
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Sons Of The Pioneers, with either Noel Boggs or Sam Koki on steel.
Roy Rogers with Joaquin Murphey, Speedy West, Noel Boggs, or Jimmy Colvard
Dale Evans with Noel Boggs and Joaquin
Rex Allen with Jerry Byrd.
Foy Willing with Freddie Tavares.
Andy Parker and The Plainsmen with Joaquin.
Shug Fisher and The Ranchmen Trio with Joaquin.
Possibly Jimmy Wakely with Noel Boggs or Pete Martinez if you call Wakely "cowboy" rather than pop or country.
I guess not Marty Robbins with Byrd as that stuff was Hawaiian.
I can think of other possibilities, but they veer more toward western swing or country. |
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John Mulligan
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 4 Dec 2017 11:09 am
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| There is enough history in this question to inspire a book. Has anyone written this book yet? |
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Chris Bauer
From:
Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 4 Dec 2017 11:49 am
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Mitch - Thanks! Shug was a new one for me and I'm embarrassed that I don't recall knowing that it was Tavares with Foy Willing. Greatly appreciated both additions to my list!
John - I agree. And if that book has been written, I sure haven't seen it. |
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 4 Dec 2017 2:25 pm
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| Did Jim Colvard play steel too? Al Udeen would know. |
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 4 Dec 2017 3:32 pm
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Sorry Chris, I didn't mean to hijack your thread.
Mitch, thanks for the links. Jim Colvard was one of my idols when I was a kid in the Twin Cities. Who'd a thunk there were two different Jimmy Colvards, even though they're of different generations. I, too, wonder if there is any relation.
Al? |
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Anthony Lis
From:
South Dakota, USA
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Posted 4 Dec 2017 6:51 pm
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| Cliff Carlisle accompanying Jimmie Rodgers on "When the Cactus is in Bloom" (1931, was it?) Early example of a "life-on-the-trail" song in "pop" music. Carlisle's break—where he simply renders the song's melody—is quite beautiful. |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 6 Dec 2017 6:49 pm
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| Somewhere around here, I have a 78 that was recorded/cut from the radio. It's Jimmy Wakely, with Jerry Byrd on steel... |
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