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Drew Howard Member Posts: 2390 |
posted 16 April 2000 06:27 AM
I'm intrigued by his Travis-pickin'-on-steel- guitar style. What CD do you recommend I get? Anybody recall Emmons doing a thumbpickin' solo last time he played at ISGC? (Wow) Thanks, Drew |
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Al Marcus Member Posts: 7471 |
posted 16 April 2000 07:20 PM
Hi Drew, have you ever heard Roy thomson's picking? He has sent me some email attachments and they are great and he is using that style. He is also doing some fine things with the new 6 string non pedal Leavitt tuning....ask b0b, he knows...al |
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Bob Hoffnar Member Posts: 4278 |
posted 16 April 2000 11:01 PM
There is some great stuff of Garret's on the Hank Thompson box from Bear Family. That 12 Cd set is like a history of the steel. Well worth the investment. www.bear-family.de/ Also Bobbe Seymore has got that style down. Bob ------------------ |
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wayne yakes md Member Posts: 650 |
posted 17 April 2000 09:34 AM
Garrett rules on the "Thumb Style", as it says on his plaque in the HOF "King of the Thumb Style". At Scotty's last convention Bobbe Seymour did a good version of the song Garrett cut doing the "Thumb Style" called "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Call Charlie Norris Music in Dallas and he has a good selection of Garrett's album and tapes. If you were knocked dead by Garrett's version of "Steel Guitar Rag" on Hank Thompson's "Live at the Golden Nugget"(1961) album, you'll be even more devastated by his new 1996 version on cassette! Bobby White and Buddy Charleton agree that the only other steel player who used his thumb like Garrett was Bud Isaacs. |
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wayne yakes md Member Posts: 650 |
posted 17 April 2000 09:48 AM
A song Garrett does his thumb style in the studio(it's on the Bear Family re-issue of Hank) is "I Wasn't Even in the Running". Merle Travis, whom Garrett would listen to on the juke box(e.g."Divorce Me C.O.D.") and then go home and pick it out on his lap steel thus developing his initial thumb style at age 11, was ill and could not make the recording session at Capital Records. So Hank Thompson told Garrett to play his break and then to play Merle's part using his thumb style! This song is very unique in what was required of the steel player. To this day I don't know any 25 year old steel players who could have done this, except when Emmons was 25 years old and also developed on his own (independently of Garret) his version of the thumb style. |
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wayne yakes md Member Posts: 650 |
posted 17 April 2000 09:56 AM
On Ernest Tubb's "Midnight Jamboree" album, Buddy Emmons(with Leon Rhodes) cut Bobby Garrett's "Rose City Chimes" instrumental using the thumb style as well. Ernest had promised Garrett that he would cut his"Rose City Chimes" on his next album. But Garrett had left E.T. for Hank Thomson( the band he always wanted to play with), so E.T. true to his word recorded it but Emmons played it. If you have trouble finding Garrett's 1958 or 1964 versions of "Rose City Chimes", let me know and I will run a copy for you. |
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Drew Howard Member Posts: 2390 |
posted 17 April 2000 05:38 PM
Thanks for the info, everyone. I just wanted to say that Roy Thomson sent me a .wav file of his thumbpickin' E9 tune "Heartache", and it is beautiful!!! Thanks Roy, |
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