| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Re: Dobro w/the Osborne Bros | | Date: | Saturday, September 2, 2006 19:47:05 (-0700) | | From: | David McAnelly <dmcanell @.....com>
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| In reply to: | Message 4688 (written by archduke) |
I believe that the talking steel guy on Starday was
Pete Drake. He caught on with some rock stars and
recorded with George Harrison, Ringo,Dylan, etc. He
formed his own record company later on.
--- archduke@stacyphillips.com wrote:
> 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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