Steel mixed hot on "Tell Ole I Ain't Here"

[Mark Hepler]

Who plays pedal steel on "Tell Ole I Ain't Here, He Better Get On Home", Moe Bandy & Joe Stampley's 1979 session?

Billy Sherrill placed it in the mix hotter than hell

Tone sounds like Sonny Garrish, but who knows?

[Per Berner]

Weldon and Buddy are both credited on that album, but this sounds a little bit more like Weldon to me (he played on nearly all of Moe's recordings back then) – though it sounds a bit like a Buddy lick as well towards the end. Great song!

[Mark Hepler]

Good info, Per. That's one of the loudest steels I've heard on a record, in a good way, the way it ought to be, louder than the vocals.

Close second might be Sneaky's solo on Rondstadt's I Can't Help It If I'm Still in Love With You.

Per, if you don't mind me asking, does steel get noticed much in Sweden? . . . is country well-known?

[Per Berner]

Hi Mark! Most of Moe Bandy's earlier recordings, the ones produced by Ray Baker, feature lots of loud and really great steel playing.

There are quite a lot of country and bluegrass acts in Sweden, some really good ones, but few of them are drawing big crowds – playing country over here is a labor of love in most cases. What we have in abundance is "dance bands", who often play country covers and write country-ish tunes (their style is often called "country with a German beat"). Most of them use pedal steel on their records, some on stage as well. But not many people know what a pedal steel is. A wild guess would be that there are significantly fewer than 500 steel players over here, and sadly only a handful making a good living out of it.


Here's Berra Karlsson on steel with Cina Samuelsson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvtMPSxbixY

Fiddler Thomas Haglund's band, Olle Westerlund on steel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yox07sQtdaM

Mats Rådberg – our only country star with real commercial success. Mats Rosén on steel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpoGeYhkijA

Janne LIndgren (1944-2013) played steel on many thousands of Swedish sessions, an old clip from 1975:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AiGJB-Mt4g

[Steve Hinson]

It's Emmons...

...he"signed it"several times, beginning with the intro...

SH

[Mark Hepler]

Thanks, Steve.

[Mark Hepler]

Per, Great tracks & steel pickers all--no slouches there!

Sweden's quality trumps quantity . . . beats the heck out of lots of U.S. alt / neo-trad / Americana stuff. (Not that it's a competition, but stateside Kudos.)

Thanks for sharing.

[Don R Brown]

Per, if you don't mind me asking, does steel get noticed much in Sweden? . . . is country well-known?

Don't forget "Country Side of Harmonica Sam".

https://savingcountrymusic.com/review-c ... blue-side/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skdCHV89zCE&t=21s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSjFtccZAbM

[Tommy Detamore]

Steve Hinson FTW!

I played with Moe back in the ‘80’s and he told me it was Buddy on that…