| Can you sing while playing pedal steel? |
| Yes I can sing and play pedal steel at the same time |
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| No I cannot sing and play PSG at the same time |
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| No I don't sing at all |
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Topic: Can you sing while playing PSG? |
Jim Cooley
From:
The 'Ville, Texas, USA
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Posted 28 Oct 2022 3:57 pm |
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I sing while playing six string guitar. I've done it on a very limited basis while playing steel; mostly harminies, but some lead singing. The real question should be whether I can play steel while singing  . |
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Dale Rottacker
From:
Walla Walla Washington, USA
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Posted 29 Oct 2022 6:33 am
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| Jim Cooley wrote: |
| I sing while playing six string guitar. I've done it on a very limited basis while playing steel; mostly harminies, but some lead singing. The real question should be whether I can play steel while singing . |
The real challenge is if you can play a Sax while singing 
I used to sing harmony while playing steel in our Gospel Band about a hundred years ago, but NEVER enjoyed it. Always felt like doing both at the same time, (at least for me) caused both to suffer some. I'm impressed by anyone who does this well.
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Ron Funk
From:
Ballwin, Missouri
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Christopher Woitach
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 30 Oct 2022 7:24 am Rick Schmidt and Pete Burak
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The two best steel guitarists I’ve ever heard sing while playing are Rick Schmidt and Pete Burak.
Rick has a recording somewhere of him accompanying himself singing Goodbye Porkpie Hat that’s outstanding, and I’ve heard him perform several very moving songs in Phoenix.
Pete (any recordings, Peter?) can absolutely rock the vocals while playing steel, especially on Creedence tunes and Jerry Garcia Band tunes - very very good.
I learned many years ago to never sing under any circumstances because I truly suck.
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W. C. Edgar
From:
Iowa City Iowa, Madison CT, Nashville, Austin, Phoenix, L or R Coast Soon!
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Posted 31 Oct 2022 1:04 pm
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Hell yes!
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Steve Spitz
From:
New Orleans, LA, USA
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Posted 31 Oct 2022 2:20 pm Joe Wright
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| Surprised no mention of Joe Wright. |
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Jim Pitman
From:
Waterbury Ctr. VT 05677 USA
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Posted 7 Nov 2022 2:17 pm
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| I second Skip's mention of Chuck Back. He blew me away with his voice and his playing at last years Dallas show. I recall Skip on piano during in fact. |
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Josh Yenne
From:
Sonoma California
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Posted 12 Nov 2022 2:01 am
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| Absolutely. But not for many years getting used to playing steel. |
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Darrell Criswell
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 15 Nov 2022 12:25 pm Re: Joe Wright
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| Steve Spitz wrote: |
| Surprised no mention of Joe Wright. |
Of course Joe isn't human, nobody else can do what he does! |
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Jim Norman
From:
Virginia, USA
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Posted 15 Nov 2022 10:12 pm
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| To the extent that I can sing at all, yes. Unfortunately, I have about a 3/4 octave range. Fortunately, I have forgiving friends. |
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Jeffrey Beers
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 16 Nov 2022 3:55 am How about the Nathan East / George Benson thing?
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This thread set me to wondering if anybody has had the audacity to sing their solos as they play them. Like Nathan East or George Benson?
Given the lyrical nature of the instrument, that could be …….. uh, something different.
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Bob Blair
From:
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 16 Nov 2022 10:23 am
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| I've done a fair bit of it over the years, on pedal steel and also playing weissenborn and dobro. I second what Chris said about Rick Schmidt and Pete Burak. |
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Christopher Woitach
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 18 Nov 2022 8:32 am
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And I should have mentioned you, Bob! Northwest Passage comes to mind…
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Samuel Phillippe
From:
Douglas Michigan, USA
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Posted 18 Nov 2022 8:45 am
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I sing every weekend while playing armpit or resenator or lap steel but cant seem to carry a tune while playing psg.
Don't know which is worse psg playing or singing with it
Sam |
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Joe Alterio
From:
Irvington, Indiana
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Posted 18 Nov 2022 9:06 am
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One of the options should be "Yes, but in which case I can't do either exceptionally well"
There is a band in Germany called "Truck Stop" whose pedal steel player was the lead singer on many of their songs! Lederhosen, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3xSow3vWVk |
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 18 Nov 2022 11:10 pm
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| A few years after I started playing steel guitar shows, people would ask me to sing from behind the steel. It was a little hard because I had to turn my steel's volume down while singing, while adjusting the steel bar to get a good grip in my left hand because of my cerebral palsy, then after the second verse and chorus, I would play a steel solo to whatever song I was singing at the time, turn the volume back down to sing the last few parts of the song, then close the song out. When I play dobro at jam sessions, if I'm singing lead, I'll sing a verse and chorus, another verse and chorus, and then, when I say, "let's pick it, y'all, I'm usually playing the solo on dobro, then singing the last few parts of the song, and while singing harmony, I add little dobro fills when I'm not singing, sing on the chorus with harmony vocals, then if whoever is singing lead asks me to play a solo, I'll play a solo, then go back to the harmony where harmony is needed |
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Posted 20 Nov 2022 2:56 pm
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Our fearless leader Jim Palanscar sings a few with The Steamers!
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 20 Nov 2022 3:30 pm
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| The only song I can sing is Giddyup Go, but somebody else has to play steel. That's how the knee lever got busted off my Sho-Bud. |
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