I just posted this piece on my blog ("The Milkman's Musings" on BillMilkowski.com). It's me reminiscing about my 50-year Infatuation with pedal steel guitar and contains a rundown of some innovative renegades who have applied the steel to their music in creative ways over time. Everyone from Alvino Rey, Pete Drake, Sneaky Pete and Lucky Oceans to Buddy Emmons, Freddie Roulette and Greg Leisz to Briano Eno, Frank Zappa and King Sunny Ade are represented in this survey piece, along with a few new faces like Mike Neer, Rich Hinman, Susan Alcorn and France's Lionel Wendling:
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Lloyd Green played steel on "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" not Jaydee Maness.
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corrections
SInce posting that piece on Substack and my blog on "My 50-Year Infatuation With Pedal Steel," I've gotten lots of feedback (and a couple of corrections) about many pedal steel players that I neglected to mention. Of course, I'm remiss. But those names are all new discoveries to me, as is Joe Goldmark, who played in Jim Campilongo's 10 Gallon Cats band. Clearly, I'm going to have to write an addendum to the original post. Also, thanks to John Larson for that correction on The Byrds' version of Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" from 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo.' That indeed was Lloyd Green and not JayDee Maness.
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I would like to thank you, Bill, for writing this great personal refection on steel guitar. As always, it is superbly written.
I have been a big fan of Bill’s writing since the 80s, when as a young guitar-mad geek I devoured every bit of press on all the guitarists and jazz musicians who were playing all the right wrong notes, like John Scofield, Bill Frisell, etc. This was in Bill’s wheelhouse and he wrote splendidly with the same geeky enthusiasm.
Years later, Bill wrote the seminal book on Jaco Pastorius, and Keith Richards, and most recently the fantastic Ode To Tenor Titan Michael Brecker.
We are very happy to have you in our little weirdo world.
I have been a big fan of Bill’s writing since the 80s, when as a young guitar-mad geek I devoured every bit of press on all the guitarists and jazz musicians who were playing all the right wrong notes, like John Scofield, Bill Frisell, etc. This was in Bill’s wheelhouse and he wrote splendidly with the same geeky enthusiasm.
Years later, Bill wrote the seminal book on Jaco Pastorius, and Keith Richards, and most recently the fantastic Ode To Tenor Titan Michael Brecker.
We are very happy to have you in our little weirdo world.
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