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Topic: !!!!! Get Suite Steel CD while you can!!!!! |
John McClung
From:
Olympia WA, USA
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Posted 20 Jul 2018 3:06 pm |
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Just got an email from Sierra Records (not affiliated with Sierra Steel Guitars). They're the company that just recently released the 1970 album, "Suite Steel" on CD.
The company is going out of business, so you'd better get this masterful CD now before it's gone! Features Emmons, Sneaky Pete, Red Rhodes, Rusty Young, and JayDee Maness!! Wow!
http://sierrarecords.goestores.com/storename/sierrarecords/dept/278926/ItemDetail-11718843.aspx
It's also currently available from Amazon.
Sad day for a great independent record company.
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Dale Rottacker
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Walla Walla Washington, USA
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Craig Stock
From:
Westfield, NJ USA
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Posted 21 Jul 2018 10:10 am
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John, thanks for the heads up, sad to see them going, have a bunch of their stuff
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Regards, Craig
I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.
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Andy DePaule
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Saigon, Viet Nam & Springfield, Oregon
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Posted 22 Jul 2018 7:06 am Done, Thanks John
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Bought it this morning, Thanks John.
Had the album years ago but gave away all my records when I moved overseas... Too heavy.
Transferred most to digital on my computer but didn't get that one done.
One of the best albums. 
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2017 Mullen SD-10, G2 5&5 Polished Aluminum covering. Custom Build for me. Great Steel.
Clinesmith Joaquin Murphy style Aluminum 8 String Lap Steel Short A6th.
Magnatone Jeweltone Series Lap Steel, Circa 1950? 6 String with F#minor7th Tuning.
1956 Dewey Kendrick D-8 4&3, Restoration Project.
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J R Rose
From:
Keota, Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 23 Jul 2018 6:54 pm
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I have the original album but got the CD when John mentioned it some time back. Have enjoyed it very much.
So sorry to hear the company is closing up. J.R.
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John Brabant
From:
Calais, VT, USA
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Posted 24 Jul 2018 4:04 pm
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Just ordered the CD. Thank you John McClung.
Sad to hear that Sierra Records is going out of business. I was introduced to them 3 decades ago by my friend Bill Bryson, bass player with the Desert Rose Band. John Delgado, owner and founder of Sierra Records is a died in the wool Byrds/Burritos/Gram Parsons/Clarence White/Dillards/Herb Pederson/ Desert Rose Band Fan and fan of the steel guitar. Losing this record label is a huge blow to the music I so love. Hoping John Delgado is OK and just looking for a change.
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John Brabant
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 25 Jul 2018 5:04 am
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Somebody was kind enough to burn me a disc with both albums on it some years ago when, of course, it wasn't commercially available.
I remember 'Suite Steel' like it was yesterday! I found it at HMV's in Oxford Street and bought it on my way to MAM Records where we signed our recording contract later that afternoon!
This would have been 1974, I think. I'd just started playing steel and our group, 'Compass', appeared on 'Top of the Pops' (BBC-TV) the following week. I had done one tiny steel overdub on our single so, although we mimed on TV, I had my ZB set up for the cameras.
I remember this all so clearly because, after we'd signed on the dotted line, the president of MAM, Geoffrey Everitt, asked if I liked fruit cake (!!!). I replied in the affirmative, of course, and duly took possession of it. As we were walking down Conduit Street to our cars (you could actually park in London back then) our drummer, Pete Kircher said:
"Look at Roger - happy as a lark! A cake under one arm and a Buddy Emmons LP under the other!!!"
Back then the track that most appealed to me was Jay Dee's 'Muddy Mississippi Line'. I still can't get over - or even accomplish - that amazing right-hand blocking of his!
'Wichita Lineman', though, was the real icing on the cake (no pun intended).
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Roger Rettig - Emmons D10s, Quilter TT-12, B-bender Teles and old Martins.
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Craig Stock
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Westfield, NJ USA
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Posted 25 Jul 2018 9:16 am
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Ordered mine today along with a few other titles, again, thanks for the heads up John.
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Regards, Craig
I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.
Today is tomorrow's Good ol' days |
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John McClung
From:
Olympia WA, USA
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Posted 26 Jul 2018 6:33 pm
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TTT...and to all who ordered this classic album: you're welcome!
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 26 Jul 2018 7:20 pm
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| Thanks, very timely! Oddly, I am just now re-reading "Hotel California" by Barney Hoskins and "Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon" by David McGowan. The first covers the invention and rise of "country-rock" and the second is more about the odd, odd behavior of people in their early-to-mid twenties who become millionaires, or at least think they do. A bit sensationalist, but there really was cocaine-powered insanity, near-epic boink exchanging and meglomania among friends and enemies. Gram Parson's funeral arrangements, people we now consider institutions were creeping around the desert to find the saucer bases etc. These guys have a few of the lost classics. |
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