PSG for Wynn Stewart?

Melinda Dauley · Post by **Melinda Dauley** » 16 Feb 2003 5:13 pm

Was listening to Wynn today (I love his music!) and I was wondering if you guys know who his steel player is?
Melinda

Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 16 Feb 2003 5:17 pm

Ralph Mooney

Joe A. Camacho · Post by **Joe A. Camacho** » 16 Feb 2003 5:17 pm

Wait a minute I think I know this one... Ralph Mooney! Sometimes it pays to get on your computer on a Sunday!

Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 16 Feb 2003 5:18 pm

And he played a Fender 1000 on all the Wynn Stewart tracks.

Michael Johnstone · Post by **Michael Johnstone** » 16 Feb 2003 6:39 pm

Ralph was and is the bluesiest,and most groovicidal of all the West coast players - ever! Only Sneaky comes close.
-MJ-

Melinda Dauley · Post by **Melinda Dauley** » 16 Feb 2003 7:11 pm

Hmm...imagine that...a Fender 1000 player..
Melinda

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 16 Feb 2003 7:16 pm

"groovicidal"???

murders the groove?

are you sure this is what you mean?

Carl West · Post by **Carl West** » 17 Feb 2003 8:05 am

You got that right on Ralph Mike, I have great memories of Ralph. Talked to him about a month ago. What a great picker and person.
I worked with Wynn Stewart for over 5 years at George's Round-Up in Long Beach. Wynn was a great singer and person to work for. Ralph did about 99 % of Wynn's records. Man we loved that Mooney sound and still do.

Carl West
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Craig A Davidson · Post by **Craig A Davidson** » 17 Feb 2003 9:08 am

Melinda, Ralph played a 1000 with Wynn but as guitars evolved so did Ralph. By the time he worked with Waylon he had a Sho-Bud. He now plays a GFI.

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Frank Parish · Post by **Frank Parish** » 17 Feb 2003 1:57 pm

There was some discussion a while back on here about who played on It's Such Pretty Day" and I can't remember who it was but it I don't think it was Ralph. I always thought it was but someone here knew it for sure. Anyone know who it was?

Stan Steinberg · Post by **Stan Steinberg** » 17 Feb 2003 3:40 pm

It's such a pretty world today was played by Jimmy Collins and by Sonny Garrish.The Collins version was recorded on Capitol and the Garrish version was recorded by K-TEL. If you like Wynn's music, you can get all of his recordings from the Bear Family box set which you can get from Wynn's daughter Wren.Wren's E-mail address is wren@wynnstewart.com I bought this box set from her several months ago and she was very prompt.

Melinda Dauley · Post by **Melinda Dauley** » 17 Feb 2003 4:06 pm

Yeah I saw that box set! I am excited to save up some bucks for it! 150.00!!
Melinda

Stan Steinberg · Post by **Stan Steinberg** » 18 Feb 2003 12:17 pm

Melinda....the box set is well worth the cost...in addition to CD's of all of his published music it includes a number of unissued songs and a booklet which has a lot of biographical info and a section which presents his sessionography...that is...who played , when they played , what songs they played..studio kind of info...everything. good luck

Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 19 Feb 2003 5:04 am

I'll second that Stan! I'm sort of biased cause Wynn is one of my two favorite country singers of all time, but dang, it's a good box set!

Melinda Dauley · Post by **Melinda Dauley** » 19 Feb 2003 6:40 am

Thw Wynn Stewart album that is my favourite is like a greatest hits collection. It's "The Very Best of Wynn Stewart, 1958-1962".
Is Ralph Mooney on there? I really like the sound of the steel on ALL of those songs. I'm not sure I exactly like ALL of the fiddle players' stylings the most though.
Melinda

Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 19 Feb 2003 10:43 am

Yes, that's Ralph, as stated somewhere above, he played on just about 98% of Wynn's stuff. I'm glad I'm not the only one on this lonely island!!

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 19 Feb 2003 10:51 am

Jason Odd knows all this stuff! I enquired about the guitar-player on Wynn's 'Man, Man, Mr Sandman' expecting the answer to be James Burton, but Jason put me straight - it was Clarence White.

GREAT steel and guitar on that track!

Maybe Jason will reply here, but he's probably asleep right now in 'Oz'....

Jason Odd · Post by **Jason Odd** » 22 Feb 2003 7:33 am

I believe I've already emailed some info to Melinda.

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 22 Feb 2003 8:20 am

Jason Odd knows all this stuff! I enquired about the guitar-player on Wynn's 'Man, Man, Mr Sandman' expecting the answer to be James Burton, but Jason put me straight - it was Clarence White

Okay JO, here's a question that has been bugging the daylights out of me for years!

Back in early 1969, during the recording of Ronstadt's "Hand Sown Home Grown" album, Red Rhodes, Dick Rosmini, Clarence and I went out to dinner and the subject came up about "Pretty World." I allowed as how I thought Mooney played his ass off on that one, and both Clarence and Red said "nah, it's Leo LeBlanc on Pretty World."

Well, it's fairly common knowledge now, and certainly on info I've gotten from Mooney as well as Hap Arnold, that it was Jimmy Collins on "Pretty World." But the question is... since I don't have a Wynn Stewart discography... did Leo LeBlanc play on ANY of Windy's records, and if so, which ones?

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Bobby Boggs · Post by **Bobby Boggs** » 22 Feb 2003 10:58 am

Thank you Herb for clearing up the Pretty World issue.

Dan Tyack · Post by **Dan Tyack** » 22 Feb 2003 8:09 pm

I used to jam with Jimmy Collins many years ago in a dive outside of Yakima WA, and he certainly claimed to have played on that cut. He was a great player, also a Fender 1000 guy. Great sound. Great mustache....

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Stephen LeBlanc · Post by **Stephen LeBlanc** » 24 Feb 2003 9:43 am

Leo LeBlanc did play with Wynn Stewart, he might have been on one of his records but I don't have any knowledge of that. He probably played on a few sessions for Wynn but I don't know of any in particular.

Yeah I know...I'm not any help here...if anyone knows more please drop me an email.

FWIW...it doesn't really sound like Leo to me on "Pretty World"...Leo was a big Mooney fan and did a pretty good job of emulating his style but it doesn't sound like his guitar to me.

http://www.leoleblanc.us [This message was edited by Stephen LeBlanc on 24 February 2003 at 09:44 AM.]

Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 24 Feb 2003 9:57 am

...for those not old enough to remember, what Mooney did originally was classified as the "west coast sound" as opposed to the "Nashville sound"!.... www.genejones.com

Jason Odd · Post by **Jason Odd** » 25 Feb 2003 6:14 am

Leo is not officially listed on any of Wynn's sessions.

However, it seems that Wynn was an absolute freak for cutting demos, and he might have cut versions of Pretty World with Leo and Carl West at different times.

The studio version of 'Pretty World' that we all know was indeed cut in 1966 with Jimmy Collins, who at the time was part of Wynn's road band the Tourists.