Posted on 11/16/2020 1:29:24 PM PST by MacNaughton
Arrrggghhh! I needed a music break from the news. Hope the moderators excuse this vanity in News/Activism.
The link provides a subjective list of the top 10 songs (actually 20+) with pedal steel guitar accompaniment.
Four of my favorite made this list - see below.
So how about it Freepers? Care to add your favorites to the list? Bonus points if you can name the pedal steel guitar player. Daily Double Bonus points if you have a favorite song with resophonic guitar/ Dobro accompaniment.
Steel Guitar Rag Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys! Composed by Leon McAuliffe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA6cPP2_Qsc
Okay this will be the very best tip I can give everyone s that wa still to hear some incredible steel guitar..
Do a YouTube search for David Hartley Steel.... anything he does is top shelf, especially anything done with the late great John Stannard on his telecaster.... David is a British chap but plays steel like he’s in Texas...
So go find him and pass it on!!
I had no idea Jerry played steel pedal guitar, does anyone have the tune “dire wolf”?
Saw elvin, saw skunk Baxter
Great talents.
Would Lap Steel count?
Then you could throw in David Gilmour for “One of These Days” and “The Great Gig in the Sky”
What happened to Buck Owens “Together Again”?
That's the first one that I thought of. True story: I was taking some German colleagues out for lunch. Got in the car, cranked it up and the radio came on in the middle of this song. This was in the days of analog radios. One of the Germans quickly reached for the tuner, thinking he needed to dial the frequency in clearer.
Grateful Dead~Dire Wolf
Pedal Steel Guitar: Jerry Garcia
℗ 1970 Warner Records Inc.
Producer: Betty Cantor
Producer: Bill Kreutzmann
Producer: Bob Matthews
Guitar, Vocals: Bob Weir
Producer: Bob Weir
Banjo: Jerry Garcia
Lead Guitar: Jerry Garcia
Pedal Steel Guitar: Jerry Garcia
Producer: Jerry Garcia
Lead Vocals: Jerry Garcia
Production: Jimmy Edwards
Technician: Laurence “Ram Rod” Shurtliff
Drums, Percussion: Mickey Hart
Producer: Mickey Hart
Bass Guitar: Phil Lesh
Producer: Phil Lesh
Vocals: Phil Lesh
Technician: Rex Jackson
Producer: Robert Hunter
Harmonica, Keyboards, Producer, Vocals: Ron “Pigpen” McKernan
Producer: Ron “Pigpen” McKernan
Engineer: Ron Wickersham
Technician: S. Heard
Engineer: Susan Wickersham
Producer: Tom Constanten
Writer: Jerry Garcia
Writer: Robert Hunter
Stupid Krauts. ;)
Absolutely. TGGITS is 1 of my all time favorites, but it did not make this list. However PF’s Breathe came in at #12 and Shine on You Crazy Diamond came in at #20.
Little aside...
I have lot’s of deadhead friends, several followed them around.
One met Bobby wier and wier invited him up to his room but told him to ditch the wife.
He still calls him Wier the Queer LOL
Gene Watson - Farewell Party, pedal steel by Lloyd Green
Not steel pedal, I dont know what you call this shizzle, Junior Brown calls one big red, and one old yeller
Shame on you! How can you mention Poco and not list their greatest song ever...
Crazy Eyes, from the album of the same name.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEpQh8hWzj4
A pox on all your 2nd cousins and I hope all your kids are born NEKKID!...lol
The song A Right Along is on the same album, uses something called a Melobar. Melobar is a slide guitar made to be played similar to a lap steel, but, standing up. Body is similar to a Mosrite, the neck is angled, so you can play it with a slide bar palm down, same as a lap steel. It had 10 strings.
A Right Along
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RoBeSC6c6vE
Melobar
https://melobarted.blogspot.com/p/identify-melobar-models.html?m=1
And by the way, Jim Messina was an original member of Poco, and their bass player on the Crazy Eyes and several other albums was Timothy B Schmidt, later to join the Eagles, still with them I think. I know the Eagles did some songs using pedal steel, but I damned if i can think of which ones.
Dobro - Lynyrd SKynyrd, The Ballad of Curtis Loew
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GSvKkMs2ieo
Tried to think of some other dobro songs, I’m drawing a blank.
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