The incredible Redd Volkaert and his band w/ Cindy Cashdollar on Steel Guitars (non-pedal), Nate Rowe on Bass and Chris Gilson on drums... A great version by a great guitar player...
I sure miss Redd! Even though I was there for dozens of Saturday afternoons to dance to him at the Continental Club - I wish I had gone dozens more - nobody else plays like him and it's pure joy on the dance floor -
Redd is a treasure the things he’s done for the music is mind blowing. Traveling all the way from the frozen north to get down to Nashville then Texas. Man this dude can really play and the stories he can tell is amazing. The steel player is soooo good too
Red did an instructional vid called "Stolen Licks." Great interview & discussion with him. As a bonus this concert was included. Not sure if it is still out there but well worth the buy even if you're not a guitar player.
She is without doubt the best slide guitarist in the US. Always in ti9me qandc always in tune. Played a lot with Leon Redbone. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L34fDqgrmiI.html
Love this song! I stood 4 feet away from Waylon one night at a party in Flagstaff, Az. I was too drunk to talk to him. His name is on the water tower in Littlefield, Tx.
As a husky fella myself I always appeciated the Strat indentation on the back top of the body...but this fella seems to be doin fine...same as Al Anderson(NRBQ).
I wonder the same thing about Elton John. Them Musician guys can't ALL have perfect fingers...look at Rick Wakeman or Booker T(from Booker T and the MGs) - they have extra-long, perfectly tapered fingers that almost seem DESIGNED to be perfect utilitarian musician fingers. But it DOES make a difference; Joe Walsh, Chuck Berry, and Jimi Hendrix have almost comically huge hands and fingers; and many other musicians I can think of have big hands. On the other hand(pun not intended) there's guys with really SMALL hands; like Angus(from AC-DC) or Eddie Cochran - they both mentioned that they have to work extra hard to compensate for their hands. It has to be like what Muddy Waters said about singers - "You got to WANT it, REAL bad..." Those people just push harder, I guess, and they get results. Redd looks pretty smooth, though. I wonder if it's an "old guy" thing.
Great version by Redd. But the guitar break still belongs to the great Wayne Moss (60-70s.) Watch him play on Marty Stuart YT version. Wayne used a jazzmaster . mosrite60
on the actual record Wayne Moss played the original break & intro. he played maybe 1 minute . Redd here plays almost 6 minutes.! We cannot compare the two versions. BTW, Redd is an awesome tele player. When he played with Merle & Strangers, they were awesome. Him and pedal steel Norm Hamlin just great. Wayne Moss circa 60s /70s was an amazing guitar guy. mos60
No Van Morrisons steel player is/was a lass called Sarah Jory from england , fantastic steel/ slide player, and I might add a good friend of mine :-) :-)
