Lloyd Green recording?

Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 26 Dec 2004 6:59 am

Does anyone know if Mr. Green is planning on doing another album? I'm guessing he's busy doing sessions for other artists, but the selfish side of me wants him to do more recordings without any of those pesky singers getting in the way.

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 26 Dec 2004 10:44 am

He told me "Revisited" was to be his last solo album.

People can change their minds....

Bob Knight · Post by **Bob Knight** » 26 Dec 2004 10:53 am

[This message was edited by Bob Knight on 26 December 2004 at 03:06 PM.]

Smiley Roberts · Post by **Smiley Roberts** » 26 Dec 2004 11:31 am

Chris,
I have been tryin' my damndest,to convince Lloyd to re-issue his 1st album,"The Big Steel Guitar",recorded in 1963 (or '64). This a very rare album,since Lloyd was playing a lot of C6th,on a BIGSBY steel. I bought this album,11/27/64,for $1.57,not even knowing who Lloyd Green was. I just saw the "magic" word,"Steel Guitar". I figured,what the hell,for a buck & a half,how bad could it be?
After playing it,I was VERY surprised,& delighted. I thought,"WOW,who's THIS guy,& where's he been??" This album is just as good,& listenable today,as it ever was. I transferred a copy,from vinyl to CD,for Lloyd & brought it over to him. He listened to it & stated that,(after my "magic" treatment) it sounded better than the original. I thought I had him convinced then,but no luck. I guess I'll just have to start "bootleggin' " 'em myself,& start "rakin' in" the cash. But,whatever ya do,DON'T TELL LLOYD!!

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Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 26 Dec 2004 11:58 am

Shoot, I guess I was a bad boy this year then, there goes my Christmas wish right out the window. Smiley, if my memory serves me correctly, I agree with you about Big Steel Guitar. I don't remember specifics (I'll have to go back and listen to it again), but I remember really liking the album. What a shame Mr. Green is thinking of retiring again, but after all the music he's given us (I'm listening to Reflections and Lloyd's of Nashville here at work today) the man deserves years of health, wealth, and happiness. I'll just have to supress my greed for more of his work and wish him well on whatever he wants to do.

Brad Sarno · Post by **Brad Sarno** » 26 Dec 2004 12:20 pm

Selfishly, I hope he can feel inspired for a little while longer. After all, even to this day, his playing is still the very best there is, both technically and emotively. He sets a standard that is so high, it keeps everyone else striving for greatness. Plus the sheer entertainment value of seeing and hearing him play is absolutely tops. Pure musical genius, that guy!

Brad Sarno

Smiley Roberts · Post by **Smiley Roberts** » 26 Dec 2004 1:54 pm

Pure musical genius, that guy!

Brad,
Your statement there goes a lot further than you think. The key word being "genius". Not very many people know (but,they will now) that Lloyd is a member of the Mensa Society.
In order to join that organization,you must,first, take a test,& lemme tell ya,you've got to be a little smarter than your average Polock steel player to get into it. So,not only is Lloyd a GREAT steeler,he's a purty durn smart one also.

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Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 26 Dec 2004 1:54 pm

Lloyd is NOT RETIRING! Far from it.
My post just said there are no plans for a solo album.

To clarify the situation here is Lloyd's comments, from just a few minutes ago:
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>""Whoa, just a minute guys. Please don't write my "musical obituary" just yet.
While it's true I've probably cut my final instrumental album/CD I'm still cutting records for other folks.
The new Buddy Jewel CD on Sony, will be released in February, there's a remarkable new CD of Robbie Fulks', featuring Redd Volkaert and me that'll hit the market soon (which among other tunes has us on an instrumental Jazz tune written by Fulks ) and a new CD by the Calhoun Twins on which Ron Elliot and I both play, I think.
Plus, I just finished a new CD on Dec. 23rd, with a fine singer and writer, John Williamson.
Then there are several interesting new projects with which I'll be involved in January and February as of this date. Besides, I'm just getting warmed up!"

Thanks,
Lloyd Green
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(Posted with permission of course.)

Keep laying down those hit tracks, Lloyd!
If you're on it, I'm buying.

And Merry Christmas from all of us!

Smiley Roberts · Post by **Smiley Roberts** » 26 Dec 2004 1:58 pm

Joey,
You have a tendency to repeat yourself,repeat yourself,repeat yourself,etc,etc.

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Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 26 Dec 2004 2:05 pm

Smiley,
I deleted my double post. Some folks don't like their posts deleted.

-Joey A ce

Tony Dingus · Post by **Tony Dingus** » 26 Dec 2004 2:24 pm

Lloyd, please keep us up to date on more of your sessions so I can get more of your current playing!!! I love your playing and I picked up a cd tittled "Little Darlin' sound of Lloyd Green". Good stuff from the past. I found it at Ernest Tubb record shop if anyone
is interested. Thanks again Lloyd for the music. A HUGE FAN!!!

Tony

Doug Seymour · Post by **Doug Seymour** » 26 Dec 2004 5:11 pm

If any of you don't have the video Lloyd did with Tommy White, after making Tommy promise not to get on the other neck at all,you'd better buy yourself a belated Xmas gift & get that video or maybe by now it's a DVD??
I sure would like to hear that early album, how about it Smiley?? My birthday is 2/5/2005
Hint, hint! I have vowed to practice an hour a day in 2005 with my steel and BIAB. I have 2,000 tunes for the band to play! & they never get tired nor say say I don't want to play that damn "pop" tune! Keep it country or we won't play!

Farris Currie · Post by **Farris Currie** » 26 Dec 2004 5:57 pm

Sure scared the heck out of me!!i been buying everything i can find of Lloyds stuff.just can't ever get enough of it.so smooth and pretty,clear as a bell.Lloyd we Love you man!you're the greatest!!!Thanks for all you do. farris

erik · Post by **erik** » 26 Dec 2004 7:34 pm

I listened to Revisited and watched the E9th video yesterday. I too was wondering if he'd make another instrumental CD. It would be near impossible to top Revisited but surely it could be equal. As someone stated above, the vocals can get in the way sometimes. I would like to hear more tunes like Calling You or God Only Knows on steel. These are beautiful modern instrumentals. The latter might work well for a skating program. When I hear Lloyd play the picture that comes to my mind is Peggy Fleming, as he glides across the steel as gracefully as she does on ice.

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Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 28 Dec 2004 4:01 am

What if we said pretty please?

Nathan Delacretaz · Post by **Nathan Delacretaz** » 4 Jan 2005 7:41 am

Like Mr. Dingus, I just ran across "The Little Darlin' Sound of Lloyd Green", but in my case it was on Apple's iTunes... Awesome! Highly recommended. And quite a surprise to find on iTunes, as in my limited experience, the selection is a little weak on the classic country sounds.

Brad Sarno · Post by **Brad Sarno** » 4 Jan 2005 6:05 pm

When was the "Little Darlin" stuff recorded? What guitar/amp?

Brad Sarno

Nathan Delacretaz · Post by **Nathan Delacretaz** » 4 Jan 2005 8:51 pm

No specific guitar and amp info, but check out this page for more infor on the album, which Koch (?) just released in 2004.

Brad Sarno · Post by **Brad Sarno** » 5 Jan 2005 6:29 am

Here is some historically and chronologically accurate information posted here by permission of Lloyd Green:

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I recorded 2 albums for L.D. during 1967 and 1968, "The Hit Sounds" and "Day For Decision". In 1969, after I had recorded 3 albums for Chart/RCA Little Darlin' released a 3rd album on me comprised of demos, out-takes, alternate takes and one or two tunes not previously recorded. This one is entitled, "Green Country".

In those days I was playing my first Sho-Bud built in early 1965. It had a pearl inlay heart in the center of the front. My amp at that time was a Fender Black Face Deluxe with 1 D-120F JBL speaker. I switched to a Fender Twin with 1 15" D-130F after June, 1968 when we cut the "Live at Panther Hall" where they had waiting for me the best Fender Twin I ever played through. It still had the "new" price tag on it from the Dallas music store from where it was rented for the occasion.

I looked in the back and there were two D-120F 12" orange seal speakers.

The price tag I can steel see in minds eye was......$575.00!

Had Koch Records involved me in the liner notes on the Little Darlin' liner notes they would have gotten much more incisive and accurate information.

Best regards,

Lloyd Green

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Thanks Lloyd!!! We all deeply appreciate you sharing with us this rich musical history from that encyclopedic database that some call your brain. It's a real treasure to have these historic details shared and illuminated.

Sincerely,
Brad Sarno[This message was edited by Brad Sarno on 05 January 2005 at 06:55 AM.]

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 5 Jan 2005 11:58 am

Lloyd: This old guy will never forget you calling me up to see if I had an amp you could borrow for a show in St Louis. It was an almost new Twin with two JBL 12's in it. DeWitt Scott and I walked up to the upper level of Kiel Auditorium and listened to just you and Loretta Lynn doing How Great Thou Art. It was a sound that neither of us was expecting !!

Thanks For The Memory !!

Regards, Paul