| Subject: | [RESOGUIT-L] Re: Dobro w/the Osborne Bros | | Date: | , September 3, 2006 03:09:13 (+0200) | | From: | archduke <archduke @.............com>
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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,
using an early version of a vocorder, with a tube stuck in his mouth.
If I remember correctly, he was the steel player on Tracy Nelson's old country
album. A great recording
done when she was still with Mother Earth.
Jimmy Crawford played a couple of great licks with Red Allen & the Osbornes, which I borrowed for
many years.
Howard Parker <hlpdobro@intr.net> wrote:
>
> 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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