Marty Robbins PLAYS STEEL on bandmate Bill Johnson's song

Dirk Edwards · Post by **Dirk Edwards** » 16 Feb 2023 5:15 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGebNY21rpI

Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 16 Feb 2023 5:52 am

Pretty cool Dirk

Norman Evans · Post by **Norman Evans** » 16 Feb 2023 6:14 am

And Dobro

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-XUCRhmYNw

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 16 Feb 2023 7:03 am

Marty was a fan of "Little" Roy Wiggins.

Roy told of being invited to Marty's home. While on a visit, Marty played some of Roys intros from some Eddy Arnold recordings and Roy said Marty was right on with copying him.

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 16 Feb 2023 7:21 am

The Who's Pete Townsend's song about Marty Robbins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPRJeBM_E8Y

Fred Treece · Post by **Fred Treece** » 16 Feb 2023 8:38 am

Joachim Kettner wrote:The Who's Pete Townsend's song about Marty Robbins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPRJeBM_E8Y

Love it!

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 16 Feb 2023 6:22 pm

Well here's Marty singing with his TEACHER of Hawaiian Steel Guitar>
https://youtu.be/7_oaEw0p3js
He had a GREAT Teacher.
Ricky

Fred Treece · Post by **Fred Treece** » 16 Feb 2023 9:25 pm

Ricky Davis wrote:Well here's Marty singing with his TEACHER of Hawaiian Steel Guitar>
https://youtu.be/7_oaEw0p3js
He had a GREAT Teacher.
Ricky

Yeah he did!
But the vocal lick at the end….holy crap. Even Jerry smiled at that one.

Dirk Edwards · Post by **Dirk Edwards** » 17 Feb 2023 4:51 am

Ricky Davis wrote:Well here's Marty singing with his TEACHER of Hawaiian Steel Guitar>
https://youtu.be/7_oaEw0p3js
He had a GREAT Teacher.
Ricky

Great song!!!and great playing!!Very Melodic.
Some of the older Dobro players used to be kind of be sloppy just hitting chords up and down the neck.
Not jerry!

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 17 Feb 2023 6:17 am

This is probably the most unusual Robbins vocal you will ever hear.
Quote from Jerry Byrd's sleevenotes, 'In the beautiful Drowsy Waters (Wailana), Marty demonstrates the the Hawaiian style of falsetto (high tenor). This kind of singing reaches back to the early days of Hawaiian history when certain taboos forbidding women to sing the old chants, left it up to some of the men to sing in a high voice.a high voice. Marty Robbins is one of the few haoles (white men)who have mastered this skill.
Marty could sing circles around anyone in the biz>

https://youtu.be/iy2bej0V0K0

That's why Jerry Byrd was his Hawaiian steel player on all of Marty's Hawaiian Albums(yes quite a few). Marty LOVED the Steel Guitar.
Ricky

Fred Treece · Post by **Fred Treece** » 17 Feb 2023 10:48 am

Thanks Ricky, that was fantastic.

Dirk Edwards · Post by **Dirk Edwards** » 17 Feb 2023 1:28 pm

Ricky Davis wrote:This is probably the most unusual Robbins vocal you will ever hear.
Quote from Jerry Byrd's sleevenotes, 'In the beautiful Drowsy Waters (Wailana), Marty demonstrates the the Hawaiian style of falsetto (high tenor). This kind of singing reaches back to the early days of Hawaiian history when certain taboos forbidding women to sing the old chants, left it up to some of the men to sing in a high voice.a high voice. Marty Robbins is one of the few haoles (white men)who have mastered this skill.
Marty could sing circles around anyone in the biz>

https://youtu.be/iy2bej0V0K0

That's why Jerry Byrd was his Hawaiian steel player on all of Marty's Hawaiian Albums(yes quite a few). Marty LOVED the Steel Guitar.
Ricky

That was !@#$%& amazing!!!

Norman Evans · Post by **Norman Evans** » 21 Apr 2023 9:18 am

Here's Marty playing some guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3GrmvkSIFg

Ted Duncan · Post by **Ted Duncan** » 22 Apr 2023 9:24 am

Ricky Davis wrote: That's why Jerry Byrd was his Hawaiian steel player on all of Marty's Hawaiian Albums(yes quite a few). Marty LOVED the Steel Guitar.
Ricky

I'll tell you what ... singers and players like these are the reason God created music. Unfortunately they are in mighty short supply these days.

Thank all of you who posted above. Thank you very much.

John Palumbo · Post by **John Palumbo** » 25 Apr 2023 11:36 am

That all indeed was so Great, Thanks for all the post's
Big Marty Robbins fan here!