| Subject: | [RESOGUIT-L] Dobro w/the Osborne Bros | | Date: | Wednesday, August 30, 2006 15:24:36 (-0400) | | From: | Howard Parker <hlpdobro @....net>
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I've pulled out my Bear Family "The Osborne Brothers 1956-1968"
which is the complete recorded output of the brothers during that
period, in chronological order, with discography, studio notes,
etc... Quite a collection.
Anyways, as a bluegrass band, the brothers were never bashful
with their experimentation. Electric banjo, drums, tiple(?),
pedal steel (Rocky Top). It's all there.
More to the point, I've noticed that Shot Jackson was prominent
during an early 1956 session as was the Nashville pedal steeler
Jimmy Crawford (on Dobro). Late in the period I see where the
great Hal Rugg shows up on "electric Dobro" on a Jan 1968
session, months after his classic Nov 1967 "Rocky Top" track. As
an aside, Sonny Osborne was known to record with five string Dobro.
Another player sounds vaguely familiar, but, I can't place it,
that of Herman Bland "Pete" Wade, whose credited in paying Dobro
on the three May 4 1966 tracks:
Lonesome Feeling
World of Unwanted
Hard Times
Pete Wade ring a bell with anyone? I'm betting he's another
Nashville steel guy.
An interesting period. None of the guys I mentioned were Graves
style players.
h
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Howard Parker
hlpdobro@intr.net
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Dobro w/the Osborn
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