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Stephen Gambrell Member From: Ware Shoals, South Carolina, USA |
posted 12 September 2005 02:06 AM
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"Beck really makes his guitar cry & scream!" Truer words never spoken. Jeff Beck's guitar sounds like it's laughing, crying, sobbing---like a human! Jeffs got a set of hands on him, and a heart, as well! |
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Chris LeDrew Member From: Newfoundland, Canada |
posted 12 September 2005 11:29 AM
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How about Dan Dugmore's solo on Linda Ronstadt's cover of "Blue Bayou"? ....crap, I forgot about Buddy Emmons' solo on Judy Collins' "Someday Soon"....another heartbreaker. [This message was edited by Chris LeDrew on 12 September 2005 at 11:32 AM.] |
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Bob Hoffnar Member From: Brooklyn, NY |
posted 12 September 2005 08:33 PM
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Roy Buchannan's Burlap bag LP ! The Blues tune on that one along with The Messiah Will Come Again is some of the greatest playing ever recorded by the most soulful tele picker who ever lived. Recorded live in a bar in Maryland. I'm so glad my Dad would sneak me into bars so I could see Roy play. That recording is available now although not on the original BIOYA label. Bob |
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George Redmon Member From: |
posted 13 September 2005 09:35 AM
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"Goodtime Charlie's Got The Blues" Sad steel everywhere in that song...who did the original steel work? |
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Olli Haavisto Member From: Jarvenpaa,Finland |
posted 13 September 2005 10:00 AM
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I think Leo LeBlanc played on Danny O`Keefe`s original "Good time Charlie". ------------------ |
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Andrew Buhler Member From: Maryland, USA |
posted 13 September 2005 10:15 AM
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Jimmy Day on Willie Nelson's "Sad Songs and Waltzes." |
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Savell Member From: |
posted 13 September 2005 10:23 AM
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Two songs from opposite ends of the spectrum, but I can remember both when they first came out. I bought the tapes, sat in my car/truck for the longest time and played them over and over. I even remember where I was at the time. Whiskey Chasin' by Joe Stampley (sitting in my car in the downtown square of Talledega, AL.) Love Hurts by Nazareth (sitting in my truck by Lake Hollingsworth in Lakeland, FL.) Man am I glad I got through those days. Even though these may not be considered guitar solos, I believe the music arrangement is what made the song so sad. [This message was edited by Savell on 13 September 2005 at 10:28 AM.] |
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Jim Hankins Member From: Yuba City, California, USA |
posted 13 September 2005 01:38 PM
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Still in Love with You, Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous 1st solo (Brian Robertson), also the whole song has a very sad vibe. |
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Ray Minich Member From: Limestone, New York, USA |
posted 13 September 2005 02:00 PM
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The CD is "Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs of the Louvin Brothers", the track is "How's the World Treating You?" by James Taylor & Alison Krauss. Saddest darn tune I've heard in many years. [This message was edited by Ray Minich on 13 September 2005 at 02:00 PM.] |
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Gene H. Brown Member From: Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada |
posted 13 September 2005 04:44 PM
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How about Tom Brumley on Buck Owen's "Cryin Time" ? ------------------ |
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Charles Davidson Member From: Alabama, USA |
posted 13 September 2005 05:22 PM
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Donna dittos on I Sang Dixie. |
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Jim Phelps Member From: just out of Mexico City |
posted 13 September 2005 06:31 PM
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To me, one of the saddest, loneliest songs I've ever heard is Hank Williams (Sr., of course) "I'm so lonesome I could cry", and Don Helms' steel work in it is perfect; clean, beautiful, sad. Funny thing about this song is there's not a single minor chord in it, despite all the minors everyone else throws in when doing this song. [This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 13 September 2005 at 07:38 PM.] |
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David Doggett Member From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
posted 13 September 2005 08:11 PM
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"I'm Down to Seeds 'n' Stems, Again" |
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Steve Robinson Member From: near Houston, Texas, USA |
posted 13 September 2005 10:36 PM
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Lloyd Maines' psg solo on Joe Ely's "Because of the Wind" Roy Buchanan's tele on "The Messiah Will Come Again". Both the saddest, wrenchingest note-streams I can imagine. Great stuff! |
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Zach Parish Member From: Mt. Pleasant, Arkansas, USA |
posted 14 September 2005 06:01 PM
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When I think sad steel solos I think of John Hughey. "When I Call Your Name" tears my heart out everytime I hear it. |
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Zach Parish Member From: Mt. Pleasant, Arkansas, USA |
posted 14 September 2005 06:02 PM
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...sorry double post [This message was edited by Zach Parish on 14 September 2005 at 06:03 PM.] |
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David Doggett Member From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
posted 14 September 2005 07:40 PM
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Zach, oh yeah. |
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Charlie McDonald Member From: Lubbock, Texas, USA |
posted 15 September 2005 04:45 AM
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"Goodtime Charlie" gets it for me. When he sings 'Some gotta win, some gotta lose...', the steel is singing the same thing. Sad has to be bittersweet to be real. |
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Theresa Galbraith Member From: Goodlettsville,Tn. USA |
posted 15 September 2005 04:56 AM
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Paul Franklin is on "When I Call Your Name" by Vince. I agree Zach, it's a tear jerker solo. |
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Archie Nicol Member From: Ayrshire, Scotland |
posted 15 September 2005 05:47 AM
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`Because Of The Wind.` I forgot about that one. Great song, wonderful solo. ------------------ |
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Jim Cohen Member From: Philadelphia, PA |
posted 15 September 2005 07:08 AM
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How about "Lost in the Feeling", John Hughey. Take your breath away... |
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David Doggett Member From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
posted 15 September 2005 03:48 PM
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Any Jerry Garcia steel solo. Wait...maybe that's not the way you mean "sad." [Okay, don't start, guys, I'm just kidding.  ] |
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Charles Davidson Member From: Alabama, USA |
posted 15 September 2005 11:01 PM
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After thinking about it, this is a trick question,there is so many sad solo's out there. It's like asking which one of your kids do you love most? |
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Harold Dye Member From: Cullman, Alabama, USA |
posted 16 September 2005 04:18 AM
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The Holding My Own CD by George Strait has the song "So much like my dad" with the Big E on steel. To me this shows the incredible genius of Buddy. This break and ending fit the song perfectly by conveying the total idea of the song. I remember reading that Buddy said this was one, if not the most favorite break, he ever did. For those who have never heard the song it is about a young man asking his mother what his dad said to her to make her stay. The overall melancholy nature of the song, coupled with this steel break, to me is what steel is all about. |
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Rick McDuffie Member From: Smithfield, North Carolina, USA |
posted 20 September 2005 06:54 PM
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I would have to agree on the whole Derek and the Dominoes album. Little Wing sounds extremely melancholy to me... it's the tone as much as notes played. Haunting. |
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Luke Morell Member From: Ramsey Illinois, USA |
posted 20 September 2005 07:08 PM
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Don Helms when he plays Cold Cold Heart in honor of the rest of the Drifting Cowboys Band |
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Rick Nicklas Member From: Pleasant Ridge, Mo |
posted 20 September 2005 08:48 PM
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Just about anything Lloyd Green plays on a moderate or slow song makes me well up inside. His technique and tone grabs every bit of my attention and it feels like the guitar is almost telling me a sad or glorious story and I'm trying my very best to understand it. Whatever it is..... it is beautiful and very few can do it. ------------------ |
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David L. Donald Member From: Koh Samui Island, Thailand |
posted 20 September 2005 10:44 PM
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Town Without Pity ; Ronnie Montrose. |
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Jim Peters Member From: St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
posted 21 September 2005 05:36 AM
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I think a lot of Danny Gatton's stuff has a real sadness about it, not so much the rockabilly stuff as the more jazzier stuff. Anyone heard his version of "Poinsetta"? Just a certain quality of sadness that I hear. JP |
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Jerry Overstreet Member From: Louisville Ky |
posted 21 September 2005 05:40 AM
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Yeah Rick....Thanks for the reminder. So Sad to Watch Good Love Go Bad from Lloyd's "Revisited" album has gotta be one of the most moving I've ever heard. So...I'd like to change my answer to that! OK? |
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Mark Lind-Hanson Member From: San Francisco, California, USA |
posted 22 September 2005 09:21 AM
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I think I would be inclined to go with the two (one or the other) of Tom Brumley's mentioned above (and I have been racking my mind for an alternative!- Cryin' Time and/or Together Again. Simple, heartfelt, & defintely quite influential... or- is there a steel on Hank William's So Lonesome I Could Cry? Which probably qualifies as one of the Saddest SONGS ever... |
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James Cann Member From: Phoenix, AZ (heart still in Boston) |
posted 22 September 2005 10:12 PM
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Norm Hamlet's rides on Merle Haggard's "Holdin' Things Together" come to mind. |
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Larry Garrett Member From: Siloam Springs, Arkansas, USA |
posted 24 September 2005 09:05 AM
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"Hurt" on Joe Wright's "Steelin' Country Classics Volume 4". Juice Newton's record is great, but Joe's treatment of it is outstanding. |
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erik Member From: |
posted 25 September 2005 09:29 AM
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Try these on for size, opinions accepted. Just got DSL and uploading is no longer a chore. I just uploaded EJJrhythmandsolo. Stream only. Thanks ------------------ |
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Barbara Hennerman Member From: Rangely, CO, USA |
posted 26 September 2005 12:54 AM
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* [This message was edited by Barbara Hennerman on 21 August 2006 at 01:48 AM.] |
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