The Tune That Brought Me Here.

Archie Nicol R.I.P. · Post by **Archie Nicol R.I.P.** » 19 Feb 2012 5:09 pm

That most commonly asked question, `What made you take up Pedal Steel Guitar?` Well, this was the very tune that got me started.

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Archie Nicol R.I.P. · Post by **Archie Nicol R.I.P.** » 19 Feb 2012 5:13 pm

Nope. Try this one.

stupid boy

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Michael Robertson · Post by **Michael Robertson** » 19 Feb 2012 5:55 pm

Here's mine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQtRsSmU-6k

Ben Elder · Post by **Ben Elder** » 19 Feb 2012 6:54 pm

No one song pushed me to this debilitating mania, but both of those two were high up on the list. (I think my first real awareness came when a friend told me to check out the guitar player (Don Rich) on Buck Owens' TV show and I was struck by the steel guitar (must have been Tom Brumley) with its higher string-action than on my first Harmony archtop.

Archie: What does your song and "Dueling Banjos" have in common?*

Michael: See my profile quotation.

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*--The "Top Forty" pedal steel and "Dueling Banjos" banjo are both played by Eric Weissberg. Either should qualify him for universal Hall of Fame membership.

Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 19 Feb 2012 7:02 pm

I remember hearing this one driving in my Dad's 63 coupe de ville in Auburn Washington over 40 years ago and telling him right then and there, "that's what i want to play"...I know it's Cal Smith, not sure who the Steel player is, but this was the one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGiuj01d0rk

Stuart Legg · Post by **Stuart Legg** » 19 Feb 2012 7:36 pm

Oh No Arch!! You were doing so good and wham! You got trumped with a Garcia card.

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 19 Feb 2012 8:07 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0lElD-qYzc

Dave Bertoncini · Post by **Dave Bertoncini** » 19 Feb 2012 8:28 pm

Area Code 615 "Why Ask Why"...Saw them at Fillmore West in SF early 70's with Weldon Myrick on steel. This You Tube Clip is not as good as the original...but gives you the right idea. The real version is on the original Area Code 615 LP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtYorEgNM-Y

Tracy Sheehan · Post by **Tracy Sheehan** » 19 Feb 2012 8:34 pm

I started on fiddle at the age of 9 or 10. The big band jazz and western swing was very popular back then. Later as swing was dying out i took up steel as i played for a living and one could get a job playing steel if they could hit a G chord.
Guess i have lived too long as music has died out all together. $:\$

Tracy Sheehan · Post by **Tracy Sheehan** » 19 Feb 2012 8:48 pm

Forgot to add altho i didn't care to play country music i did hate to see it die also. Tracy

Stuart Legg · Post by **Stuart Legg** » 19 Feb 2012 9:26 pm

It was Bo's singing and playing hot licks on the PSG that just dazzled me to wanting to learn all I could about the Steel Guitar.
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Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 19 Feb 2012 10:03 pm

Who played steel on "Mrs. Johnson"?

Mark van Allen · Post by **Mark van Allen** » 19 Feb 2012 11:27 pm

For me it was Buddy playing Wichita Lineman on the Suite Steel album. I heard that and it was all over.

Todd Brown · Post by **Todd Brown** » 19 Feb 2012 11:52 pm

For me it was a couple of players who inspired me to play. First, I'd probably put Don Helms. I love everything Hank ever recorded, so it's mostly his playing and his style which first got me into it. I know Jerry Byrd also recorded with Hank, but I'm not really a big Jerry Byrd fan. Sorry Ray!

A close second would be John Hughey. His style and his phrasing still still kills me. I grew up with my Dad being a huge Conway Twitty fan and an even bigger fan of Country music in general. Lots of vacations to Twitty City and Opryland. Blasting Conway records early in the morning before he would go to work. He had almost every record Conway ever released. Since he passed a few years ago, I now have his record collection.

Kevin, as far as who played steel on that version of Mrs. Johnson, I don't know. Just a guess would be Buddy Emmons. It's an early version for sure. I have heard several versions that Cal Smith recorded through the years. Probably at least three that I can think of. I'm sure it's different players on all of the recordings.

Jeremy Marcum · Post by **Jeremy Marcum** » 20 Feb 2012 12:34 am

Mark, I agree with you. I have heard several people play "wichita lineman" but none compare Buddys version on the suite steel album.

Dave Harmonson · Post by **Dave Harmonson** » 20 Feb 2012 1:42 am

John Hughey played steel on The Lord Knows I'm Sinning. One of my all time favorite tracks. Bill Anderson wrote the tune.
So who played on Are you on the Top 40 Arch?

Dave Harmonson · Post by **Dave Harmonson** » 20 Feb 2012 1:45 am

Oops I see that was answered Eric Weissberg

Ronald Cid · Post by **Ronald Cid** » 20 Feb 2012 4:31 am

For me...it was slow and steady progress of listening to Buddy, but this tune killed me....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfk3wBeeaLY

Then finding Roger Miller's "A trip in the country" on vinyl cemented the fact. I was addicted.

Thanks RC

Ronald Cid · Post by **Ronald Cid** » 20 Feb 2012 4:33 am

For me...it was slow and steady progress of listening to Buddy, but this tune killed me....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfk3wBeeaLY

Then finding Roger Miller's "A trip in the country" on vinyl cemented the fact. I was addicted.

Thanks RC

Ben Lawson · Post by **Ben Lawson** » 20 Feb 2012 6:58 am

This is the title song from the album that started it for me. Not a bad cut on the whole LP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHCdK3IRUPQ

norm mcdaniel · Post by **norm mcdaniel** » 20 Feb 2012 2:39 pm

Ill tell you it was everything that Ralph Mooney ever played in his lifetime. I also remember the earley days when he had a Fender. He could chop wood with that thing

Norm In Waco Texas

Lynn Fargo · Post by **Lynn Fargo** » 20 Feb 2012 4:48 pm

I started playing lap steel when I was 8, but quit when I was about 16 or 17. Then one night in my early 20's I was out in a bar and accidently heard this tune on the jukebox. I was a fan of Jimmy Day and Buddy's styles, but I'd never heard steel played quite like this before. I was immediately hooked and bought a Maverick probably about a week later. Played 10 years until the disco era put my last band out of business.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihKRbDH57D0

J R Rose · Post by **J R Rose** » 20 Feb 2012 7:29 pm

Together Again by Tom Brumley with Buck Owens. I understand that the song was a B side of the record and that Tom used a Fender Steel and a Fender Twin for the recording, then they did the live album at Cargie Hall with the Z.B. and Twin and it still makes me have goose bumps to listen to it. Tom and the Z.B. were just awesome, J.R.

Randall Dugan · Post by **Randall Dugan** » 20 Feb 2012 11:19 pm

O.J. "Red" Rhodes. I've always preferred this to the later Eagles version.
-Dead Link-

Rick Lawrence · Post by **Rick Lawrence** » 21 Feb 2012 6:10 am

I know it is probably cliche but "Night Life" played by Buddy Emmons with Ray Price is what gave me that feeling of joy and inspiration that I got before I started classical guitar and banjo many moons ago. Hearing this version confirmed that feeling! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htmf8Mku ... r_embedded

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