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Topic: Your favorite gritty electric blues on lap steel
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Peter Goeden
Member From: Annapolis, Maryland, USA
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posted 20 May 2005 12:17 PM
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I'd love to hear what's your favorite CD with lots of gritty electric blues on lap steel. It DOESN'T have to be an all-instrumental lap steel album. I'm thinking a cross between Duane Allman and Ry Cooter but on lap. Thanks |
David L. Donald
Member From: Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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posted 20 May 2005 12:28 PM
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Hands down
Cindy Cashdollar's Slide Show album. |
Randy Reeves
Member From: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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posted 20 May 2005 01:39 PM
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I like David Lindley's El Ray-o X.Mercury Blues is raucous. |
Mike Neer
Member From: NJ
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posted 20 May 2005 01:48 PM
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I'd recommend Greg Leisz's playing on Bill Frisell's records, particularly Blues Dream. Be warned: this is not blues per se, but it's great stuff.
I like David Lindley a lot, too--he gets right to the point.
Sonny Rhodes, Freddie Roulette, Aubrey Ghent, Robert Randolph are a few others that come to mind.
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Dan Tyack
Member From: Seattle, WA USA
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posted 20 May 2005 02:33 PM
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Darrick Campbell on "the Campbell Brothers on Tour". There's a live cut on there with Darrick playing with a 3 piece that will make your hair stand up.
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Colin Brooks
Member From: Lewes, East Sussex. UK.
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posted 20 May 2005 02:40 PM
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Another vote for Mr. Dave and El Ray-o X. Hop Wilson cut some great blues on steel c.50's/60's which have been reissued, and no matter how he held his guitar Elmore James got one of the best metal (or glass) appendage guitar sounds I ever heard. |
Chuck Fisher
Member From: Santa Cruz, California, USA
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posted 20 May 2005 03:33 PM
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Pink Floyd - it just doesn't get much gritty-er. You gotta love it![This message was edited by Chuck Fisher on 20 May 2005 at 03:34 PM.] |
Billy Wilson
Member From: El Cerrito, California, USA
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posted 20 May 2005 03:57 PM
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Freddie Roulette |
Russ Young
Member From: Seattle, Washington, USA
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posted 20 May 2005 04:21 PM
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Freddie Roulette, L.C. "Good Rockin'" Robinson and the very gritty (and often out-of-tune) Hop Wilson. Tom Gray of Delta Moon plays some wicked acoustic lap steel.And since we're venturing outside of blues, don't overlook Dan Tyack and the Unsanctified Gospel Revival. |
David Doggett
Member From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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posted 20 May 2005 06:34 PM
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L.C. "Good Rockin'" Robinson on a six-string Fender. He also plays blues fiddle.
And for acoustic, The Black Ace, on a National tricone squareneck.
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Paul Arntson
Member From: Bothell ,WA (just outside Seattle)
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posted 20 May 2005 07:30 PM
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.[This message was edited by Paul Arntson on 24 May 2005 at 08:09 PM.] |
George Manno
Member From: chicago
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posted 21 May 2005 04:28 AM
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David Gilmour |
Mike Neer
Member From: NJ
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posted 21 May 2005 07:44 AM
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Re: Hop Wilson.I like him, too, but brilliant might be a bit of hyperbole.  |
Andy Volk
Member From: Boston, MA
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posted 21 May 2005 07:57 AM
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I'd second Lindley - especially with El Rayo-X and Cindy C. in her roadhouse mode but two non-steelers who inspire me for gritty blues stuff are Earl Bostic and Stuff Smith. Bostic played swinging blues and Jazz with a wonderful strip club growl that always reminds me of the overdriven steel sound I'd aspire to have. Stuff swings his butt off on jazz violin with a unique attack and a kind of cool scratchy, acidic tone. After I heard Stuff, Grappelli always sounds like an overdecorated creampuff. Stuff gets right to the marrow of the beat. Check out these records:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000176K/qid=1116687291/sr=8-14/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i6_xgl15/103-7888590-5638260?v=glance&s=music&n=507846
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000046TN/qid=1116687355/sr=8-3/ref=pd_ka_1/103-7888590-5638260?v=glance&s=music&n=507846 |
Michael Whitley
Member From: Oxford, Mississippi, USA
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posted 21 May 2005 09:15 AM
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Gilmour. |
John Billings
Member From: Northfield Center, Ohio, USA
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posted 21 May 2005 09:48 AM
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Cooder doing "All Shook Up." |
Kevin Macneil Brown
Member From: Montpelier, VT, USA
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posted 21 May 2005 12:25 PM
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Andy's reference to sax and violin as influencing his steel makes a great point; Reminds me of David Lindley's Junior Walker licks/phrasing
By the way, does anyone remember a Charlie Musselwhite album called, I think, MEMPHIS,TENNESSEE?. Buried in the mix was some ferocius steel by Freddie Roulette. I used to spin the balance control all the way to one direction and listen --very intensely-- with one ear!! |
Bill Blacklock
Member From: Powell River, British Columbia, Canada
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posted 21 May 2005 01:13 PM
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Sonny Landreth "Memphis in the Meantime" |
Andy Volk
Member From: Boston, MA
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posted 21 May 2005 02:08 PM
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I did the same thing with that record, Kevin! Horrible mix but great record. I have the Mobile Fidelity (supposedly audiophile) version on CD and the mix stinks as well. |
Chuck Fisher
Member From: Santa Cruz, California, USA
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posted 21 May 2005 02:23 PM
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Guys, If yer usin a bottlneck, you aint steelin.....
Although Sonny is the best!!!!!
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Bill Blacklock
Member From: Powell River, British Columbia, Canada
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posted 21 May 2005 03:45 PM
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Hell, bottleneck is just a steel player thinking sideways? |
David L. Donald
Member From: Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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posted 22 May 2005 01:33 AM
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The 1st cut of Cindy's cd is her and Sonny Landreith in harmony,
and worth the cost of the CD,
ands then there is the Marcia Ball cut...
DANG.I will check out the Linley stuff, I did like his Jackson Browne stuff back in the day. |
Billy Wilson
Member From: El Cerrito, California, USA
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posted 22 May 2005 03:50 AM
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L. C. "Good Rockin" Robinson willed his steel to a blues musician called Sonny Rhodes who is out of Boston I believe these days. He came through here recently and did some nice stuff on that steel |
Gary Boyett
Member From: Colorado
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posted 22 May 2005 04:13 AM
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I got to meet Steve Kimock a few weeks ago when he was in town. He had ordered a few of my glass bars and came by to pick them up. Unfortunatly I had not heard his music. After we talked I checked out his web site and I would say there is some prett gritty playing going on in his show. He loves his Fenders too!Great guy! One heck of a player! http://www.kimock.com/frames/ There is quite a bit of good music on the site. Check it out.
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Keith Cordell
Member From: Atlanta
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posted 22 May 2005 09:26 PM
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Lindley is the all time master, IMO. There are others out there, such as Arizona player Tony Bruno, Tom Gray, and others, but when it comes down to it if you ask those guys that you like who they got it from it's always going back to Lindley. El Rayo X is absolutely amazing. ------------------
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CrowBear Schmitt
Member From: Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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posted 23 May 2005 07:20 AM
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i find that Aubrey Ghent & the Campbell Bros get down & up too w de nitty gritty purty good
& there's that young feller everyone's hollerin' about smokes his steel good too[This message was edited by CrowBear Schmitt on 23 May 2005 at 07:20 AM.] |
Paul Honeycutt
Member From: Colorado, USA
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posted 24 May 2005 08:08 AM
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And Lindley got it from Freddie Roulette one night at the Family Dog on the Great Highway in San Francisco. I was there that night, but I wasn't a witness to Mr. Dave's conversion to steeler. |
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