Pedal Steel Guitar Recordings
Hans Tammen
I½m looking for (pedal) steel guitar recordings, but not country &
western style. Some unusual stuff would help, also from improvised
or experimental music.
Thanks, Hans
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Stephan Claassen
I remember having heard Floyd's guitar blues by Andy Kirk and his clouds
of joy, recorded somewhere in 1940 (?).
It has some unusual guitar. Sounds like bottle-neck, but it can be
steel-guitar too. I'm not sure.
Maybe an expert could check it out ?
Stephan
S.H.Cl...@kub.nl
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Frank Driggs' liner notes to a 1970s Decca LP reissue of the Kirk band's
recordings calls it a "Hawaiian electric guitar."
Buddy Emmons has done a number of pedal steel recordings of jazz tunes.
There's a wonderful track called "Cumulus Waltz" on the album "Welcome
Aliens," by guitarist Cam Newton (Inner City, 1979). The steel player is
Steve Koski. And for a steel guitar blues band, I just picked up a CD of
the British band Juicy Lucy. Glenn Campbell (not _that_ one, but an
American nonetheless) plays steel.
- JRB
d.be...@mail.utexas.edu
"Floyd's Guitar Blues" was played by Floyd Smith on an electric lap
steel guitar. The true master of this instrument in the jazz idiom
was Bob Dunn (although most of the records he played on were released
as Hillbilly/String Band records). Dunn's pioneering work on the
lap steel with Milton Brown in 1935-36 is electrifying!!! There
is a new CD out titled Jitterbug Jive, on the Krazy Kat label that
features some of Dunn's best work from 1940-41(including a 1941
recording of I Found a New Baby with a 19 year old Jimmy Wyble
on electric guitar! The cd also features some of the other Texas
swing lap steel players, obscure names like J.D. Standlee, Deacon
Evans, Tommy Treme, Acie Peveto. Ultra Cool, Dig?
P.S. The coolest track on the CD is Goodbye to the Blues, written,
sung, and played by fiddler Buddy Ray, who is still playing in
Fort Worth at the age of 77!!!
Tom Benton
Ok, so this is kind of reaching (and doesn't actually involve any
recordings per se), but I understand NYC drummer John Hollenbeck leads a
quartet consisting of pedal steel, reeds, percussion, and voice. I
believe they're called the Quartet Lucy. I'm not sure who's in the group
except for the voice of the incredible Theo Bleckman, who's worked with
(to my knowledge at least) both Anthony Braxton and Mark Dresser's group
Force Green. I can't begin to imagine this instrumentation, has anyone
heard this group?
Jack Woker
I'll second the recomendation to check out Bob Dunn, one of the
greatest pioneers of what evolved into the pedal steel guitar that we
know today. Bear Family has just released a boxed set of Cliff Bruner's
1930's and 40's recordings, and Dunn is all over this set too.
In the early 1960's Buddy Emmons recorded with several jazzmen on a
Mercury album that until now has been very rare. It has been reissued on
Razor and Tie as "The Buddy Emmons Collection" (R&T 2135).
I'd also recommend that you check out the amazing Speedy West. Razor
and Tie has just released a conpilation of some of his best work with
guitarist Jimmy Bryant, and it smokes! If you really wanna go off the
deep end, Bear Family has issued a boxed set of their complete
recordings!
Yee-hawwww!
jack
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Joe Germuska
I know the original posting was looking for more experimental, less
traditional steel guitar music, but I have to pitch this one record to
y'all:
"Sacred Steel: Traditional Sacred African-American Steel Guitar Music in
Florida", a recent release on Arhoolie records. It's packed with amazing
energy, songs like "Joyous Sounds" and "Praise Music" as well as some
standards ("At the Cross", "Just A Closer Walk With Thee", "Amazing
Grace") and some interesting chestnuts like "Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Poor
Man's Friend".
It's Arhoolie CD 450, and if you have any affinity for gospel and steel
guitar music, you should check it out.
--
Joe Germuska {j-ger...@nwu.edu} |
<http://www.nwu.edu/people/j-germuska> | "I seem to be a verb."
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Joel Glassman
Jack Woker <ste...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> I'll second the recomendation to check out Bob Dunn, one of the
>greatest pioneers of what evolved into the pedal steel guitar that we
>know today.
Bob Dunn deserves the recognition as an improvisor many of his Jazz
playing contemporaries got but since he played Western Swing will
remain obscure. This was pretty radical stuff for the early 1930s.
BTW If Hank Garland had not released Jazz Winds...
he would also be unknown though he was a monster player.
Some suggestions for steel guitar players who improvise Jazz (maybe
already mentioned though --I missed the original post):
The steel guitar Jazz soloing on these recordings is first rate, but
the other players are not always up to their standards.
Doug Jernigan: Jazz on 10 : Double Ten Records available @ Tower
Paul Franklin: Just Pickin': maybe out of print, but he's done others
Mike Polaschek (sp?): not sure of titles, but he's very good
Tom Morrell: No Pedlars Allowed- jazz soloing on lap steel-- this is
on Tower Records inventory.
Carl Christensen
On Sat, 05 Jul 1997 18:23:01 +0200, h.ta...@asco.nev.sub.de (Hans
Tammen) wrote:
>I˝m looking for (pedal) steel guitar recordings, but not country &
>western style. Some unusual stuff would help, also from improvised
>or experimental music.
I have a new CD from NRG Records called "Redneck Jazz Explosion." It
captures a night's gig (New Years Eve, 1978) with the talented Danny
Gatton on guitar, the legendary Buddy Emmons on pedal steel, Steve
Wolf on bass, and Scott Taylor on drums.
It's probably not for jazz purists, but it is an interesting and fun
listen and they do a good variety of songs in a jazz vein.
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T. Douglas Mast
> On Sat, 05 Jul 1997 18:23:01 +0200, h.ta...@asco.nev.sub.de (Hans
> Tammen) wrote:
>>I˝m looking for (pedal) steel guitar recordings, but not country &
>>western style. Some unusual stuff would help, also from improvised
>>or experimental music.
Check out B.J. Cole. He has done many sessions, and put out an
album on Hannibal a few years ago. This contains jazz-like music,
as well as Debussy, and god knows what else.
Doug.
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Carl Christensen wrote:
>
> I have a new CD from NRG Records called "Redneck Jazz Explosion." It
> captures a night's gig (New Years Eve, 1978) with the talented Danny
> Gatton on guitar, the legendary Buddy Emmons on pedal steel, Steve
> Wolf on bass, and Scott Taylor on drums.
I just picked up the Blue Note set called "New York Stories," with Danny
Gatton (regular guitar, not steel), Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Bobby
Watson, and others. Worth looking for.
- JRB
tomb...@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
An interesting guy to check out would be Alvino Rey, a steel
player (not pedal) who led a big band playing swing during the
30s and 40s. And not just western swing, but full-on jazz swing.
I don't know what's in print, if anything, but it was actually
a pretty good band and worth exploring. And he was a fine player,
although he's perhaps more of historical interest than he is a
role model for aspiring contemporary jazz steel players. Look
into it, though. He was a big name in his day.
John Fielding
I have quite a good album dating from 1978 of duets between Bucky
Pizzarelli and a pedal steel guitarist named Doug Jerningham. Pretty
good stuff. Recorded in Nashville. Issued on Flying Fish LP 043.
There's some excellent pedal steel being played in Sydney Australia at
the moment by Michel Rose in the band "the catholics". They have two
CDs out to my knowledge under the titles "Simple" and "Life on Earth".
These are on Rufus Records and sold locally through Polygram. I heard
that Polygram was intending to release these in North America but have
no info.
Michel plays superbly both backing lines and solos. In fact the whole
band is a gas.
JohnF in Oz
Jack Diamond
If you want very real straight ahead Steel Guitar Jazz then find Buddy
Emmons-Steel Guitar Jazz, just issued on CD
It features an all star lineup including Jerome Richardson on Reeds with
most likely the greatest (pedal) steel guitarist alive today
I am SERIOUS about the jazz, thaqt record smokes like you never heard
Then of course there are the instrumental duets that Jimmy Bryant
(Electric Lead) and Speedy West (Pedal Steel) did in the mid 50's to
early 60's
I LOVE steel guitar and steel guitar jazz!
Jack Diamond
http://www.kfjc.org
JFR
In <33D711...@ozemail.com.au> John Fielding <fie...@ozemail.com.au>
writes:
>I have quite a good album dating from 1978 of duets between Bucky
>Pizzarelli and a pedal steel guitarist named Doug Jerningham. Pretty
>good stuff. Recorded in Nashville. Issued on Flying Fish LP 043.
>There's some excellent pedal steel being played in Sydney Australia at
>the moment by Michel Rose in the band "the catholics". They have two
>CDs out to my knowledge under the titles "Simple" and "Life on Earth".
>These are on Rufus Records and sold locally through Polygram. I heard
>that Polygram was intending to release these in North America but have
>no info.
>Michel plays superbly both backing lines and solos. In fact the whole
>band is a gas.
>JohnF in Oz
>
>tomb...@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu wrote:
>
How much of this is jazz-oriented pedal steel playing? To recast this
thread, what about jazz pedal steel in general, have there been any
players doing it?
Thanks.
John
jagped...@gmail.com
> I½m looking for (pedal) steel guitar recordings, but not country &
> western style. Some unusual stuff would help, also from improvised
> or experimental music.
>
>
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Hope you enjoy it.
Jonathan Gregg
jagped...@gmail.com
> I½m looking for (pedal) steel guitar recordings, but not country &
> western style. Some unusual stuff would help, also from improvised
> or experimental music.
>
> Thanks, Hans
>
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