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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Re: Dobro w/the Osborne Bros | | Date: | Sunday, September 3, 2006 14:19:03 (EDT) | | From: | KCSteelPlayer <KCSteelPlayer @...com>
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In a message dated 9/2/2006 8:19:24 PM Central Daylight Time,
archduke@stacyphillips.com writes:
> If I have the right fellow in mind, Pete Wade was one of the original
> pedal steelers and an early
> Nashville session player. He had a record on Starday where he was billed as
> playing the talking steel,
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That's Pete Drake. Early legend on pedal steel, who appears (to someone who
only knew of him through the hindsight of history) to have stopped innovating
and whose playing rapidly became dated and so fell out of favor. He helped
write a lot of the standard cliches all of us pedalmashers use, but then
apparently didn't develop beyond them; unless he managed to end his career by
having/being an unpleasant character, this has doomed others (can you say "Buddy
Cage"?)
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