The Steel Guitar Forum

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 27 Apr 2011 4:00 pm

News item about a small Americana festival:
http://www.redandblack.com/2011/04/26/f ... -by-genre/

Americana is good music.

Mark van Allen · Post by **Mark van Allen** » 28 Apr 2011 10:52 am

Indeed it is, b0b, and encompasses everything from reverential old-school to evocative soundscape to rowdy country punk to contemporary songwriting. There is so much great music being made out there.
Just an enormous shame that the profit structure of corporate radio bypasses so much substance in favor of orchestrated pap.
I've played on many shows with Little Country Giants in the photo on that site, they're really great. No steel though.

Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 28 Apr 2011 2:00 pm

Thats the thing about Classics as someone said above.."The Artist mentioned were all dead"...However one should note their music did not die..Most songs are re recorded year after year..Good music has a chance to become classic whatever it is branded...I'll bet there are not ten people on here that can take a new COUNTRY Artist of say three to five years and name their hits..Songs that last as long as flatuance in the perverbial wind...

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 29 Apr 2011 8:42 am

LOL !
Go to steel shows and look at the age group, you're so right!

LJ Eiffert · Post by **LJ Eiffert** » 29 Apr 2011 12:45 pm

Due Respect.Did I miss what everybody was crying about on this (ACM SHOW) topic or,is that how it works? Seem to me the division of age group keeps changing the system of what's good and what's bad for all of us in Country Music. If it don't fit the steel guitarist and when it dose you can't hear it in the mix because they don't want you to hear or maybe some ears are dead.So,now if I have misunderstood what fingers was saying than I'll go eat my pigeon food.The Double Eagle ham show has been a Golden N Soft TableMaid with Ole Mexican Cheese.I'm still keeping my nuggets with Tyson.

I'm going back to Old Wisconsin and get me some Budding in a tub.

Leo J.Eiffert,Jr. & his Pigeons Band coming across America as Prseident of The USA for chicken feed.

Ron Epperson · Post by **Ron Epperson** » 30 Apr 2011 6:23 am

you do see alot of us older people around the steel guitar because you older players do not want to get out there and get the younger people involved with the instrument heck i have alot of younger people come to me and want to learn about the steel the instrument can evolve in to any music listen to rusty young with poco some of you players only hear country ballads when you hear the steel the big machine does not hear all that instrument can do play from your heart

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 30 Apr 2011 10:43 am

Kenny Foy · Post by **Kenny Foy** » 1 May 2011 8:11 am

As far as the older artists can't sing, I must disagree. Watched Ray Price on Marty Stuart here while back. Excellent vocals. "Country's Family Reunion" on RFD-TV on Friday nite has alot of the "older" singers on there. Gene Watson, Jim Edd Brown,Jeanne Sealy, Jack Greene, Vince, Jimmy Fortune,T.Graham Brown, Larry Gatlin, Ed Bruce, Helen Cornelius,John Conley, Moe Bandy just to name a few and, so sad,some of them have passed but there singing voices were with them till the end. Again on Marty's show Patty Loveless, Dolly Parton, Connie Smith. GREAT Voices. Just my 2%.

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 1 May 2011 11:57 am

Where's my pigeon poop dictionary? You know what they say. Punctuation is the first thing to go.

LJ Eiffert · Post by **LJ Eiffert** » 1 May 2011 10:09 pm

It's nice to see(Kevin Hatton) and read my pigeon shadow is still alive and well with his poop. The real base of this topic is getting off with what the topic (acm show)is about.So with all the real pros on here and all the wish could be pros on here can't seem to get to what they really want out off themself for what has been hijacked by the young who like I said,could care less who we are or where we come from.The new residents on this forum can't get the delivery of what the pest control fingers add to the experience of what they try to make fresh out of old dogs work.So I am limiting one certificate sack of pigeon food with a total refreshing smell of pigeon poop air to air neighborhood postage.Let not your heart be troubled.

options. Leo J.Eiffert,jr.

Gary Preston · Post by **Gary Preston** » 2 May 2011 8:00 am

$:\$ $:\$

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 2 May 2011 10:35 am

What a bunch of crap!

LJ Eiffert · Post by **LJ Eiffert** » 2 May 2011 12:39 pm

You are so right Theresa Galbraith, This whole topic has turned into a bunch of crap over nothing,but,so has the whole world around us.I give everybody the truth and they can't handle it. What's up with that? I know! Let it go. so who is the Music business Police?

Leo J.Eiffert,Jr.

Ron Epperson · Post by **Ron Epperson** » 3 May 2011 8:48 am

i will police it leo and i will put a band of pigeons around the whole thing then you canclean up the pigeon poop

James Cann · Post by **James Cann** » 3 May 2011 9:44 am

Well,it's not what country players would call country,but think how much more dreadful all that stuff would be if it didn't have the little country influence it does have.

Not that I'll cross the river, but given what it is now, the 'stuff' might be improved!

It's like Karaoke: you have to know the songs you can sing . . .and those you can't (e.g., when Pat Boone did "Tutti-Frutti").

LJ Eiffert · Post by **LJ Eiffert** » 5 May 2011 12:23 pm

Bump the wings of a Pigeon on the steel guitar and you will get Ron Epperson.All he can do is hum alone with the words,but,give a glass of water and he'll sing like a bird.Can you hear him in the mix? Was he right on with the drummer? He'll be up for next years Steel Guitar award.......

This is not the CCMA!!!!

Leo J.Eiffert,Jr. & his Pigeon Band with some Crawfish music from CajunLand.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 5 May 2011 1:52 pm

CCMA...cajun crawfish music association...

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