Who is the utmost emotional steel player?

Marty Holmes · Post by **Marty Holmes** » 2 Oct 2002 9:13 am

Just curious on some opinion's, I already have mine.

Tim Harr · Post by **Tim Harr** » 2 Oct 2002 9:21 am

It would be difficult to beat the Emotion felt in Jimmy Day's playing...

Lloyd Green also comes to mind

Tons-o-soul

My opinion of course

TH

john buffington · Post by **john buffington** » 2 Oct 2002 9:26 am

My .02 worth - Jimmy Day no doubt!

John Buffington
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Pete Burak · Post by **Pete Burak** » 2 Oct 2002 9:30 am

Different genre', but none the less...
Robert Randolph gets pretty "deep" in an emotional sence.

Earl Yarbro · Post by **Earl Yarbro** » 2 Oct 2002 10:02 am

How 'bout Joe Wright. Anyone at the St. Louis show saw an emotional steeler in action, especially when he played for his attending mother. I was very impressed.

Earl

Larry Bell · Post by **Larry Bell** » 2 Oct 2002 10:19 am

I would suspect that those who didn't answer "Jimmy Day" never heard Jimmy play in person.

Scotty didn't call him 'Mr. Country Soul' for nothing.

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Gary Lee Gimble · Post by **Gary Lee Gimble** » 2 Oct 2002 10:30 am

I've witnessed tears oozing out of Charleton's guitar. Hence, he is my nominee!
Gary Lee

Chuck McGill · Post by **Chuck McGill** » 2 Oct 2002 10:30 am

Lloyd Green

John Billings · Post by **John Billings** » 2 Oct 2002 11:10 am

John Hughey gets my vote!

randy · Post by **randy** » 2 Oct 2002 11:13 am

It's hard to listen to "Our Yesterdays, King of Broken Hearts, My Weakness is Too Strong,Mansion on the Hill, and on and on...and come up with any name besides Buddy Emmons. I'm 55 and i'm convinced that I'll not live long enough to hear another steel player interpret the singers' intentions any better.

Danny Bentley · Post by **Danny Bentley** » 2 Oct 2002 11:48 am

Tommy White!

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 2 Oct 2002 11:50 am

Might depend on which "emotion" you're thinking of... For "Happy" emotion, I nominate Emmons based solely on "Rainbows All Over Your Blues" by John Sebastian. If that solo doesn't make you happy, you need to double your dose of Prozac.

Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 2 Oct 2002 12:06 pm

This is too subjective and it doesn't make sense to crown just one player.

However, since so many have mentioned Jimmy Day, I'll add that one of the most emotional musical events I've ever witnessed was Jimmy Day playing "You Win Again" on Sunday at Scotty's. That was during his final ISGC set. The notes have long since passed, but I still recall the feeling.

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Billy Easton · Post by **Billy Easton** » 2 Oct 2002 12:10 pm

I have been known to get pretty emotional when I try to play like Emmons or Day or most anyone else, and have been known to cry my own tears on the top of my guitar!!

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Marty Pollard · Post by **Marty Pollard** » 2 Oct 2002 12:26 pm

Jerry Garcia

Brian Henry · Post by **Brian Henry** » 2 Oct 2002 12:27 pm

I think that the answer we are supposed to say is Jimmy Day. However this is a very subjective question open to various interpretations and shades of opinion. Perhaps we should define soul and emotion before going any further.
Regards,
Brian

Larry Bell · Post by **Larry Bell** » 2 Oct 2002 1:17 pm

ok, I'll have a shot at an equation
Soul + Emotion + steel guitar = Jimmy Day

Of course, it's my opinion and it's subjective, but when Jimmy would play 'I Love You Because' so quiet you could hear a pin drop, it was like E.F. Hutton -- EVERYBODY LISTENED. And that guy had a heart as big as Texas that poured down his sleeves onto his guitar and out his amplifier for all to hear.

Certainly there are other great, emotional players, and there were far superior technical players, but when it came to heart wrenching SOUL, Jimmy Day was the man in my book. If you want a physical manifestation, I can tell you I've seen more than a few grown men crying tears of emotion when he played. I've NEVER seen that kind of response elicited by another player and I've heard most of 'em over the past 30 years or so.

Just an opinion, but I think a valid one.

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Marco Schouten · Post by **Marco Schouten** » 2 Oct 2002 1:20 pm

Tom Brumley

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Johan Jansen · Post by **Johan Jansen** » 2 Oct 2002 1:51 pm

Curly Chalker

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Darvin Willhoite · Post by **Darvin Willhoite** » 2 Oct 2002 2:11 pm

I agree with Johan, Curly could make a slow ballad cry (ala "Long Black Limousine") or make you want to get up and go visit Indiana (ala "Back Home in Indiana").

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Danny Bates · Post by **Danny Bates** » 2 Oct 2002 2:49 pm

All of the above.

Please don't forget Emmons ... this is country swing but it has the soul
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Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 2 Oct 2002 4:13 pm

I think all of the really great steelers can play with a lot of emotion...that's one of the things that makes them great!

After all, isn't ours known as "the instrument that cries"?

Dan Tyack · Post by **Dan Tyack** » 2 Oct 2002 4:17 pm

Some of the guys that really move me are Day, Emmons, Chuck Campbell, Phil Campbell, Jerry Byrd, and Calvin Cooke.

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Jeff Coffell · Post by **Jeff Coffell** » 2 Oct 2002 5:13 pm

My favorite player would have to be E but for soul it would have to be Jimmy Day.

By they way, this may surprise some of you, but my next favorite pickers are JEFF NEWMAN AND JOHN HUGHEY not necessarily in that order.

Jeff

Reggie Duncan · Post by **Reggie Duncan** » 2 Oct 2002 5:32 pm

Add Weldon Myrick and Sonny Garrish to this long list of greats!