Time to start hittin' the bottle again

[stubhead]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI56hQOsmos

Srs. Haynes and Brown ain't exactly chicken food, but dat Trucks boy... 6:26->

Good Lord. Hmmm, 10 fingers? check. 6 strings... check. 22, 24 frets, check. Little pill bottle... check. So what the hell are you supposed to know? His wrong notes sound finer than any mere human's best ones...

 

[hachikid]

this is freaking amazing...as of recent, I've always loved the steel guitar...god, what a sound!

 

[Great Ape]

Stub--What you gave us is VERY cool, but Haynes, Brown, and Trucks didn't show up for the session...

 

[stubhead]

Yeah, this is what I wanted to post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7pIq0n3qOo&list=PLXNWhrSnVuhEQbytVrOjLK0GX7evPbr4m
Too many open files, too many replies all conflated together. I hope I didn't tell my boss to shut his yap and just paint the damn thing.

But Gary Carter's new CD is great too! An awful lot of times (73%!) the "sideman" instrumental albums just check off the list: O.K., you can play a slow blues; O.K., you can play a bebop tune, O.K., you can play a hair-on-fire 220 beats-per-second fiddle tune, OK we GET it, oooh you rock! - etc. I stopped buying them a while back. But here there ain't a filler song anywhere, there's not even a wasted note. If there's only two kinds of music in the world - serious vs. trivial - Carter's is serious.

http://garycartersteelguitar.com/

He was soliciting song ideas on the steel forum several months back, I guess it worked! There's a pix on the CD jacket of a very young little Gary with an old Electraharp, except it wasn't old then. More than any other instrument besides classical violin (and the nutso Indians) all the great pedal steel guitarists started real young and they'd knocked off the first 10,000 hours practicing by the time they hit high shcool.