Comments on: Fiddle and Steel Guitar

By: Erik North

Erik North — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:03:52 +0000

Ralph Mooney, Lloyd Green, John Hughey, Weldon Myrick and Tom Brumley are all viable candidates for #1 Steel Player as well

And not just inside the country music genre; each of them has worked beyond that field. It may not sound like it, but that’s Weldon Myrick’s steel work on Linda Ronstadt’s 1970 hit “Long Long Time.”

Lloyd Green played on the Byrds’ 1968 album Sweetheart Of The Rodeo; John Hughey played on Elvis’ 1969 version of “I’m Movin’ On”; and Tom Brumley, aside from being a pivotal member of Buck Owens’ Buckaroos, played on Rick Nelson’s seminal 1972 hit “Garden Party.”

By: Paul Dennis

Paul Dennis — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:18:01 +0000

Ralph Mooney, Lloyd Green, John Hughey, Weldon Myrick and Tom Brumley are all viable candidates for #1 Steel Player as well

By: Travis McClain

Travis McClain — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 08:58:26 +0000

No offense to either Mike Johnson or Buddy Emmons, but I’m partial to Ralph Mooney on steel. His was the foot that made Merle Haggard a star, after all. ;)

By: walter beauchamp

walter beauchamp — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 08:35:10 +0000

I grew up with mike johnson. Mike is the greastest steel player of all times, he will replace Buddy Emmons.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:49:15 +0000

I love fiddle and steel guitar. I def. wish they were used a lot more frequently, as I prefer those instruments to electric guitar and other pop-leaning sounds.

Its not like they can’t do it, either… look how big “White Liar” was, and that’s like all about the steel guitar.

By: Travis McClain

Travis McClain — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:32:54 +0000

Incidentally, I’ve always thought it strange that a “Louisiana man” would tell Alabama how to play their music in Texas.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:50:28 +0000

If you want to hear some fiddle and steel, give a listen to “There’s a Song in There Somewhere” from Victoria Shaw’s 2008 cd “Bring On the Love”. The first verse begins “I’ve got the broken heart, I’ve got the empty bed, … the tear stained pillow …” and concludes “the only thing missing is the steel guitar”. The song, written by Shaw and Gary Burr, has the steel and the fiddle. The chorus begins with the song title and continues “isn’t that what they say, between the saddest of goodbyes and cheap wine, tonight I’m a walking cliche”. It concludes “there’s a song in there somewhere, maybe I’ll write it someday”.

By: Razor X

Razor X — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:00:58 +0000

I kinda wish all the hard core country got banned and shoved off to satellite radio or some place and the more socially acceptable stuff was all that the radio played.

Didn’t that already happen years ago?

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:41:54 +0000

…more fiddle and steel again in country music. sounds good to me.

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:51:40 +0000

Really M.R.? Are you being serious? With that kind of attitude I hope you never listen to country music again. Country music is for a lot of different types of people but not for people like you!