[catnipman]

posted for anyone who could use a musically uplifting moment ...

[EasySt]

Very nice!

[NEMDF]

Thank you! Very nice.

[CGASMIA68]

Nice.
More to my liking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlbWuVeoeHM

[Celerity]

I once lived with some family, and they had a guest over every day who was in a band. He used to come over and practice his pedal steel guitar.

This was our night, every night for the months I lived there. After 7, after dinner, we would retire and listen to this guy play for about 2 hours.

It really is a magical instrument that I can’t make a pleasant sound on.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Very nice! I have played pedal steel since about 1970, and used to work for Jerry Brightman building Performance Steel Guitars. There are 4 Shobuds in my house right now, and a Dr. Z Surgical Steel amp, + my dual-cabbed Twin.

[Fiji Hill]

Never seen one of those before. It sure sounds like a guitar, but it doesn’t look like one.

[Maceman]

Thanks for posting this. I'm a guitar player, and I've always loved to listen to pedal steel guitar playing, even though I have had no idea how that works.

So after listening to the performance you posted, I found this short (6:59) video explanation about how a pedal steel guitar works, which I found very enlightening.

Steve Fishell explains how pedal steel guitar works.

The first steel guitar performance I ever heard was Santo & Johnny in 1959 playing Sleepwalk. I loved that tune and the sound of it.

I was only 9 then, but I got hold of the 45 and fell in love with the up-tempo flip side: All Night Diner.

[mairdie]

It was wonderful! I’ve never seen one and you brought out so much emotion from it. Thank you.

[Liberty Valance]

Melinda has a great touch. Thanks for posting.

[niteowl77]

Very nice! I have to echo one of the comments about the beautiful tone; even a pedal steel hater ought to find something good in that performance.

I can't play a musical instrument (tried and failed a number of times), but I ended up becoming a steel guitar fan from - oddly enough - Jerry Garcia's pedal steel on "Teach Your Children Well." I can't stand C, S, N or Y now, and I thought Garcia was a freak even then, but that was an epic addition to a "rock" song that came out when I first started buying records. I also loved bits like Ben Keith's playing on Anne Murray's version of "Danny's Song." That was considered pretty square by my peers, but most of what passed for cool in that bunch is basically forgotten and almost unlistenable today.

Eventually I ended up listening to bluegrass and older C&W, which took me to people like Ralph Mooney as well as to the "Dobro" and people like the late Mike Auldridge.

Everybody slide.

Mr. niteowl77

[uncbob]

Hank Williams —Don Helms

Ernest Tubb—Buddy Emmonds

Waylon—Ralph Mooney

Don Williams—Llyod Green

Merle—Norm Hamlett

Bob Wills-— Leon McAuliffe