who are the lapsteel greats?

[Neill]

from any genre. love greg leisz, but i'm pretty ignorant to what else is out there.

what are the classic albums? bands?

[take1carry1]

David Lindley

[jimfog]

Dig up some Freddie Roulette.

Always dug Steve Howe's textural work, as well............

[Pappy]

Greg Leisz
Cindy Cashdollar

[B_of_H]

just lapsteel? how about ben harper? wisenborn into dumble = allsome.

[Neill]

should have stated before, that i'm also extremely familiar with david lindley and his work.

[roadfilm]

Steve Kimock
David Lindley
Nels Cline

[Scott Miller]

Leon McAuliffe, player for Bob Wills.

Sol Hoopii, Hawaiin from the 20s-30s.

Sonny Rhodes, blues, still playing.

I've jammed with Freddy Roulette a bunch of times. There's nothing like lap steel on a slow blues.

[duckbunny]

If you're into classic western swing lap steel, try to find any of Joaquin Murphey's stuff from the 40s and 50s. His single of "Sweet Georgia Brown" with "Honeysuckle Rose" on the B-side is just stupendous!





-db

[TRIODEROB]

http://www.displaysforschools.com/ghent.jpg

[TRIODEROB]

http://www.campbellbrothers.com/images/albums/sacred_steel_vol2_big.jpg

[Gas-man]

Leon McAuliffe

Don Helms

[mad dog]

Triodebob: You beat me to it, twice. Aubrey Ghent IMO is in another league. So expressive and soulful, technique so deep you don't even notice it. The Campbell brother on the left (sorry, cannot remember his first name) is right up there too. Live, those guys are a real handful. It's enough to make you put the steel down and never come back.

[jtm622]

Jerry Byrd...

[playon]

The late Don Helms, steel player for Hank Williams senior. He not only helped define Hank's sound, his playing was probably heard by more people than any other non-pedal steel guy. Amen on David Lindley, he's done more for the instrument in modern times than anybody.

The Sacred Steel folks are another story, a ton of soulful players... check out you tube for some great stuff like this: http://www.youtube.com/user/goldensacredstrings

[woody_jez]

Lucky Oceans?
have no idea what he was in but he's won a couple of grammys and now lives in my home town of perth, plays with the zydecats. Nice guy too!

[woody_jez]

ah wait , just found it:


Lucky Oceans was born in Philadelphia in 1951 to a music-loving family who exposed him to jazz, classical, folk and experimental music. In 1970, he co-founded the Western Swing band he named ‘Asleep at the Wheel’ and began playing the pedal steel guitar. With Asleep at the Wheel, he recorded 7 albums for major record labels and toured the U.S.A. and Europe for an average of 250 dates a year, winning the Grammy Award for ‘best country instrumental’ in 1978.


so there you go :P

[James V]

+1 on Aubrey Ghent.

While not exclusively a lapsteel player, Ben Harper is pretty good. He is able to mix up styles and still sound authentic. Check out his work with the Blind Boys of Alabama. WOW.

[bluesbreaker59]

Don Helm of course, Jerry Byrd, Cindy Cashdollar, and I'll add one more... Bo Ramsey, on anything slide, that man is a genius.

[jads57]

Man I don`t know about lap steel, but Roy Rogers is certainly a great player!

[PosterBoy]

Sally Van Meter is an awesome Dobro player

[Sweetfinger]

Quite the humbler:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq52zrVpmdY

[Cornbread]

A bunch of great lapsteelers named so far.

I just wanted to say seeing them do this live is the real treat. Last month I saw Cindy Cashdollar, Redd Volkaert and Bill Kirchen together and was blown away. Those guys are as good as it gets and she easily held her own. It was a-may-zing.

Thanks for that video Sweetfinger, I had seen that before but completely forgot about it. Awesome.

[dsj]

Can't believe no one's mentioned Ralph Mooney yet, one of the all time greats.

[Gas-man]

Can't believe no one's mentioned Ralph Mooney yet, one of the all time greats.

I associate him with pedal steel.

Did he record much with the non-pedal?

[bluesbreaker59]

I associate him with pedal steel.

Did he record much with the non-pedal?

Exactly why I didn't include Tom Brumley.

[PUCKBOY99]

Imagine, if you will, Jimi Hendrix playing lap steel............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XujmM1dNHQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT5fztJyuVo



:AOK

[KRosser]

Since I'm kinda a day late and a dollar short and many excellent players have already been named, at least I can chime in with my very own Cindy Cashdollar anecdote...

In summer 2006 I played on a multi-guitar summit gig for a festival with Kevin Breit, Redd Volkaert, Cindy, a fine Bonnie Raitt-esque guitarist from Australia named Mia Dyson and myself; we each brought a couple tunes to the gig to do, and while each of us had a few things we kind of scuffled with of the others', there wasn't ANYTHING Cindy didn't play like she's been playing it all her life. What an amazing musician. One tune I brought was Frank Zappa's "Black Napkins" and while everyone else took a little bit to adjust to it (it's sort of a C# 'phrygian blues'), you shoulda heard Cindy tear up Zappa on the lap steel...it was unbelievable. Vishwa Mohann Bhatt was on the side of the stage watching us and I saw him cracking up to her playing that, it was so beautiful and fearless.

[Gas-man]

Imagine, if you will, Jimi Hendrix playing lap steel............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XujmM1dNHQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT5fztJyuVo



:AOK


Sorry but Randolph's intonation is not good.

I love the energy, but he's out of tune half the time.

I'm sure someone will say he does that on purpose, or they like him better because of it....

[GuitarsFromMars]

um,Bobbe Seymour...

[kludge]

And no one mentioned David Gilmour? Not necessarily one of the "greats", but his lap steel has been heard by more people than anyone except maybe Don Helms.

Glad to see someone giving props to Freddie Roulette, too. Man, what a wild player!

I love playing lap steel. And after a couple of years, I'm finally starting to get good at it...

[Franklin]

I've seen Robert Randolph several times, he was constantly trying to tweak the intonation of the pedals and keep the strings in tune. I can't imagine what that must be like for keeing what 15+ strings in tune?!?!? But I agree, great energy at the shows, good tunes and good time. One time I saw him and there were no intonation/tuning issues what so ever, that is why it made me wonder if it is him and his technique or the guitar that was the problem.

I'll tell you honestly that intonation is my problem too. Mine is definately related to my technique and I was landing sharp for a while, and now I am landing short of the proper pitch(es) in anticipation of going sharp and I can't get any of it together when playing live. Ugh! I seem to have a little better luck when playing slide on a standard guitar, but not much...

[Gas-man]

Intonation is the hardest part of steel.

If you don't have it, you aint great.

[lalaland]

Imagine, if you will, Jimi Hendrix playing lap steel............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XujmM1dNHQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT5fztJyuVo



:AOK

That's pedal...

[kludge]

Intonation is the hardest part of steel.

If you don't have it, you aint great.

Oh, yeah. It's PAINFUL to develop good intonation. Using a good instrument helps, though - the scale length and string spacing have to be right. I started on one of those cheap Rogue things and intonation was killing me. Then I got an old Gretsch (Valco made), and my playing improved 100%, just because suddenly the scale and spacing were right. My current-production Fouke uses the exact same proportions as the Valco/Supro types, and there's good math behind it.

Part of the fun of getting the intonation right, though, is being able to play some seriously blue notes! The more I play, the less vibrato I use - I like to hit just-intonated thirds and sevenths and HANG on them.

Pedal steel is a whole different world of pain, intonation-wise. You have to deal with "cabinet drop", the whole instrument flexing because of pedal tensions, throwing all the strings out of relative tune. You also get all the annoying temperment problems.

[EelEye]

Sol Hoopii
Dick McIntyre
Jerry Byrd
Andy Iona


All else are mere imitations to the greats. Don't even bother talking about contemporary players...these guys were masters before the genre died.

[Bryan T]

Don't even bother talking about contemporary players...these guys were masters before the genre died.

What genre?

[Teleplayer]

Not sure if he would be considered a "great", but T.C. Furlong (Jump In The Saddle Band) has been playing some pretty fine pedal steel for years:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54sdkIgWSYk

T.C. also builds pedal steel amps, and used to own the Steamer Speaker Cabinet company in the 70s (absolutely incredible 4x12 guitar cabs).

Google him and you will find links to a lot of things he has been involved with over the years.

[Born2Blues67]

http://www.displaysforschools.com/ghent.jpg

Fantastic musician. Also,Darick Campbell. These gentlemen can take
their instruments far beyond notes,etc. They sound ethereal,almost
human.

[JohnSS]

How about the late Barney Isaacs? Ben Keith has also done some nice work in the past w/Neil Young on both lap and pedal steels.

[kimock]

I've seen Robert Randolph several times, he was constantly trying to tweak the intonation of the pedals and keep the strings in tune. I can't imagine what that must be like for keeing what 15+ strings in tune?!?!?

Probably restringing the whole guitar at sound check, that's too close to show time. I've seen him do it; plays his ass off anyway, but he does have to chase the axe around a little.
I love his playing and energy, and he's a good guy too.

peace

[Dana Olsen]

Sally Van Meter is an awesome Dobro playerShe sure is, and she plays GREAT electric lap steel too. I lived in Chico, CA, for many years, where Sally Van Meter was born and raised, and I've played with her many times. As for additional credentials, she does clinics with Jerry Douglass - WOW!

One guy we forgot on lap steel - Junior Brown is a simply AWESOME 8 string lap player. NOBODY else sounds like Junior, and he's a great songwriter, singer, and pedal steel player too.

Dana O.

[MLT]

although more of a dobro player, he used to do some killer straight steel stuff on American Music Shop.

Kludge... I hear ya about scale. I prefer long scale instruments for that reason. Short scale is just too squirrelly for me. I rarely slant (prefer to choke and pull) so short scale has no advantage whatsoever for me. I've noticed that very few of the modern guys (Lindley, Leisz, etc.) slant.

[Franklin]

Probably restringing the whole guitar at sound check, that's too close to show time. I've seen him do it; plays his ass off anyway, but he does have to chase the axe around a little.
I love his playing and energy, and he's a good guy too.

peace

Def a great guy, and I think, a great player/showman too. But I don't remember ever hearing him play a lap steel, only pedal. I bet he would really kill on a lap steel!

[EelEye]

What genre?


Hawaiian steel/slack key. It was a hugely popular music in the 20s and 30s (on a worldwide basis) with it's own culture and stars.

Good luck finding any vinyl on it now. My father had many of the *only* copies of recordings made by those masters (e.g. radio masters from live shows)...

[Dana Olsen]

although more of a dobro player, he used to do some killer straight steel stuff on American Music Shop.

Kludge... I hear ya about scale. I prefer long scale instruments for that reason. Short scale is just too squirrelly for me. I rarely slant (prefer to choke and pull) so short scale has no advantage whatsoever for me. I've noticed that very few of the modern guys (Lindley, Leisz, etc.) slant.I prefer the long scale too, though I have an 50's Supro standard scale w/ legs for my own lap steel. A couple friends' both own long scale Oahus, and I just love 'em - easier to intonate, well, to play in tune on, and they sound great too!

Thanks, Dana O.

[Bryan T]

I prefer the long scale too

Same here. My lap steel has a 25" scale length. I do slants and also a lot of behind the bar bending. I can't really do slants close to the nut, as the angles become a bit extreme, but I do prefer the longer scale length for intonation.

Bryan

[jackevorkian]

Mark VanAllen deserves mention. I'd also second the David Gilmour mention.

[halcyon85]

Bill Elm is probably not considered a great but the Friends Of Dean Martinez are one of my favorite bands. Their rendition of Wichita Lineman is so gorgeous.

It's also good music to drink tequila to.

[kludge]

although more of a dobro player, he used to do some killer straight steel stuff on American Music Shop.

Kludge... I hear ya about scale. I prefer long scale instruments for that reason. Short scale is just too squirrelly for me. I rarely slant (prefer to choke and pull) so short scale has no advantage whatsoever for me. I've noticed that very few of the modern guys (Lindley, Leisz, etc.) slant.

I really should learn that choke-and-pull technique. I've fooled with it, but I'm still doing slants most of the time. Maybe if I got choke-and-pull down, my lap/pedal approaches would become more sympathetic to each other. They're like radically different instruments to me right now.

[zombywoof]

Lloyd Maines on both lap steel and pedal steel.

[KRosser]

I've noticed that very few of the modern guys (Lindley, Leisz, etc.) slant.

I took lessons with Leisz, he can slant 'til the cows come home....

[MLT]

Thanks for the insight.

I took lessons with Leisz, he can slant 'til the cows come home....

[teleman65]

I think Gary Brandin is worth mentioning.
He did a CD with his son under the name 'The Vanduras' that I've listened to a lot.
You can listen on their myspace page http://www.myspace.com/thevanduras

[webb]

Check out Steve Cunningham

http://www.myspace.com/stevecunninghamslide

[Dana Olsen]

Kludge... I hear ya about scale. I prefer long scale instruments for that reason. Short scale is just too squirrelly for me. I rarely slant (prefer to choke and pull) so short scale has no advantage whatsoever for me. I've noticed that very few of the modern guys (Lindley, Leisz, etc.) slant.Slanting is somewhat genre driven - Lindley slants if he's playing more country-ish, he just hasn't done much of it since the 70's. When he's doing his higher gain stuff, you don't see it often.

Do a YouTube search for Junior Brown - there are tons of 'em. Junior slants, he pulls, bends behind the bar - plus, he does stuff I've never seen anybody else do on the lap steel that's kind of hard to describe, even though I've sat right in front of him on several occasions and watched him do it.

Now it's an 8 string he plays, so the tuning lends itself to more slants than straight G or E tuning. Junior has a whole lotta tricks up his sleeve, and jhe's a genuine master too.

Thanks, Dana O.

[Lammy]

Joaquin Murphey, that guy burns like a mofo. Some ol western swing stuff.

[MLT]

Yeah, I've seen him several times. He'd fit right in with Bob Will's band.

Slanting is somewhat genre driven - Lindley slants if he's playing more country-ish, he just hasn't done much of it since the 70's. When he's doing his higher gain stuff, you don't see it often.

Do a YouTube search for Junior Brown - there are tons of 'em. Junior slants, he pulls, bends behind the bar - plus, he does stuff I've never seen anybody else do on the lap steel that's kind of hard to describe, even though I've sat right in front of him on several occasions and watched him do it.

Now it's an 8 string he plays, so the tuning lends itself to more slants than straight G or E tuning. Junior has a whole lotta tricks up his sleeve, and jhe's a genuine master too.

Thanks, Dana O.

[BMF Effects]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Buddy Emmons (or I overlooked it), but are we talking strictly lap steel or including pedal steel as well?

Buddy with Danny Gatton (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD5Tc2TDCmM&feature=related)

[Neill]

I took lessons with Leisz, he can slant 'til the cows come home....


wow, cool!


i decided, after listening to leisz (on a variety of albums) i'd fix up the national chicagoan lapsteel i found in a dumpster (!) doing a job about 6 years back, and dedicate myself to getting halfway competent on the thing. leisz was the inspiration though.

all the suggestions (that i've gotten to) have been great btw. thanks people!

[KRosser]

wow, cool!


i decided, after listening to leisz (on a variety of albums) i'd fix up the national chicagoan lapsteel i found in a dumpster (!) doing a job about 6 years back, and dedicate myself to getting halfway competent on the thing. leisz was the inspiration though.

all the suggestions (that i've gotten to) have been great btw. thanks people!

Whether Leisz slants a lot in public in his contemporary work, I don't know, I just know that as a bona-fide historian of the instrument, he's got a thorough command of tons of vocabulary going back all the way to Sol Hoopii, etc.

[ocripes]

[quote=jimfog;5007172]Dig up some Freddie Roulette.

quote]

Dude, you are so right! He played on a Charlie Musslewhite album called "Memphis, Tennesee." What great stuff!!!

[Captain Midnite]

Robert Randolph plays pedal steel. We're talking lap steel, i.e., non-pedal guitar, no?

Jerry Byrd, Don Helms, Leon McAuliffe, Kayton Roberts, Joaquin Murphy, Vance Terry, Speedy West, Maurice Anderson, Bobbe Seymour.

Or, you can check out my CD, Steels Heal The World (http://myspace.com/steelshealtheworld) !!!

[Neill]

Steels Heal The World (http://myspace.com/steelshealtheworld) !!!

cool thanks for the link. is that an artists rendering of a chicagoan on your myspace page?

[pedalsteel.ken]

Junior Brown

[pedalsteel.ken]

Junior Brown I said, I said junior brown

[Captain Midnite]

Neill, yep, we had a pile of lap, no-pedal nd pedal guitars: Nationals, Supros, Fender Dual Pro's and Stringmasters, Magnatone, Bronson, not to mention Fessenden and Derby pedal steel guitars. Dobros were repesented by Scheerhorn, Beard and Guernsey. Amps were vintage Fender; Champ's, BF Pro's and Deluxe's, silver-face Twin, and more.

The artwork is by Susan Fawcett and she painted us while we recorded and then we piled all the guitars together at 4 AM and she painted away after I passed out.

[GuitarsFromMars]

this has become interesting,the fact that some of these are bad boys(players), does not negate the fact,that the instrument,hasn't been popular in american music,with few execeptions,since the late 1920's....but it is hanging on by a thread.Nice thread.I guess I'll have to pull out my 1939 Supro...

[kludge]

this has become interesting,the fact that some of these are bad boys(players), does not negate the fact,that the instrument,hasn't been popular in american music,with few execeptions,since the late 1920's....but it is hanging on by a thread.Nice thread.I guess I'll have to pull out my 1939 Supro...

A few exceptions... like, oh, THE 1950s! The great heyday when there was still "western" in country and western music? It hasn't been a dominant instrument since those days, but it's never gone away.

The rise of the pedal steel took away much of the lap steel's thunder starting in the 1960s, but there's a direct lineage. And steel guitar was a key component of country music up until the modern Bon-Jovi-in-a-cowboy-hat era.

I suspect it'd be a more popular instrument if more guitarists were sufficiently competent to play it. But most guitarists, given a lap steel, sound like a lovesick moose. I've heard it a lot, every time one gets excited seeing mine and borrows it for a bit...

[teleman65]

But most guitarists, given a lap steel, sound like a lovesick moose. I've heard it a lot, every time one gets excited seeing mine and borrows it for a bit...
You've heard me play :D
I've got a Gibson BR9 and I'm okay in slide guitar tunings like open E, D and G but put me on a C6 tuning and I sound like a tone deaf, drunk :drink , Hawaiian Blues player. :eek:

[guitrr]

How about David Gilmour? Don't know I'd classify him as one of the greats, but he sure put some nice touches to Pink Floyd tunes with his steel work.

Also, another vote for Cindy Cashdollar; she's tremendous!


Kane

[Ed DeGenaro]

My two fave sliders...
Chuck and Dereck Campbell from Sacred Steel...

[kevin hart]

My two fave sliders...
Chuck and Dereck Campbell from Sacred Steel...

Yep, these guys are from my home town and they can burn.

But, David Lindley is still my favorite.

[lalaland]

Or, you can check out my CD, Steels Heal The World (http://myspace.com/steelshealtheworld) !!!


Killer!

[musicofanatic5]

Sorry but Randolph's intonation is not good.

I love the energy, but he's out of tune half the time.

I'm sure someone will say he does that on purpose, or they like him better because of it....
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!! I thought i was the only person on the planet who didn't think RR was some kind of genius. Kinda wanky and frequently way off pitch. Maybe that's his "style"? A competent steeler uses his ears, so keeping "15+" (he actually has 13) strings in tune is no excuse. But, yes the original post was about lap steel. How 'bout Hop Wilson?
Intonation: no less important on a steel gtr than on a violin. A violinist works hard on his intonation for years.
Slants: If you don't use slants, you're missing out on a lotta chords. I use a round nose bar (instead of the more commonly employed Stevens-type) to get those three-note slant chords. If I'm doing something where I want dobro-style pull-offs and hammer-ons, then I go for the Stevens-type tool.

[Alvis]

Don Helms was the man,made me feel like I was sailin.I copped a lotta stuff from him
The Campbell Bros version of A Change Is Gonna Come is outa this world
When I was about 21 I met Lindley in The Guitar Store in Pomona.He comes in the and grabs some cheap Yamaha 12 string off the rack ,tunes it to a chord,lays it on the counter and just blows my mind !

Check me out playing with Clark Gable about 4 minutes in ,tryin to hit a little Don Helms on a 6 string

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrhQPsFSZD8

[pedalsteel.ken]

OK I am forced to pull out the Joe Wright vid. even tho my vote is for David Lindley
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ov3ZFoE-FII&feature=related

[Loni Specter]

Steinar Gregertsen out of Norway has the touch.
Michael Witcher is very cool
Harry Manx
Greg Leisz is a friend and my pick as the tastiest guy out there. He helped R&D my lap steel products (Lapdancer Guitars)
I plan on taking him in the studio next week to play on a track or two for me.

[Neill]

i'm all over jerry douglas right now... obviously a dobro player, primarily, but he sounds mighty good on lap steel too.

thanks for all of the great recs everyone. slowly working my way through them.

[RevRon]

I`m sorry, that I am a little late for this thread, plus I dont like the Idea of blowing my own horn. I am still a newby to this forum. But try one of my vids, (that is if it`s permissable) and tell me what you think! After all, everybody can`t be an Aubrey Ghent, Robert Randolph, or Lloyd Green!(smile)
Thanks Guys, and gals,
Bishop Ronnie P. Hall /Goldensacredstrings"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr1gsr6gfqY

[Crowbar]

I'm a little late to the thread too, but I'll vote for Junior Brown. And a guy who's name I don't know, he plays for Wayne Hancock.

I play C6 and try to keep up with the Hank record.

[alexanderplatz]

Greg Leisz is my favorite. At least, whenever I hear a really nice part being played on lapsteel, pedal steel, Weissenborn, or anything like that, when I look at the liner notes it's him.

[kimock]

I`m sorry, that I am a little late for this thread, plus I dont like the Idea of blowing my own horn. I am still a newby to this forum. But try one of my vids, (that is if it`s permissable) and tell me what you think! After all, everybody can`t be an Aubrey Ghent, Robert Randolph, or Lloyd Green!(smile)
Thanks Guys, and gals,
Bishop Ronnie P. Hall /Goldensacredstrings"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr1gsr6gfqY

Plus one for the new guy.:bow

[johnzias]

I like the way Kimock plays it. Of course that probably has a lot to do with me liking Steve's approach to music in general.

[kimock]

Thanks, and same to you!

[skydog]

David Lindley. That searing stuff he plays on songs like Runnin' On Empty are just great!

[fish01]

Paul Franklin

[redtoploader]

Jeremy Wakefield.

[Gas-man]

Jeremy Wakefield.


That's a good one.

He does the Spongebob incidental music IIRC so I hear him A TON!

[Dave Klausner]

Since I'm kinda a day late and a dollar short and many excellent players have already been named, at least I can chime in with my very own Cindy Cashdollar anecdote...

In summer 2006 I played on a multi-guitar summit gig for a festival with Kevin Breit, Redd Volkaert, Cindy, a fine Bonnie Raitt-esque guitarist from Australia named Mia Dyson and myself; we each brought a couple tunes to the gig to do, and while each of us had a few things we kind of scuffled with of the others', there wasn't ANYTHING Cindy didn't play like she's been playing it all her life. What an amazing musician. One tune I brought was Frank Zappa's "Black Napkins" and while everyone else took a little bit to adjust to it (it's sort of a C# 'phrygian blues'), you shoulda heard Cindy tear up Zappa on the lap steel...it was unbelievable. Vishwa Mohann Bhatt was on the side of the stage watching us and I saw him cracking up to her playing that, it was so beautiful and fearless.

Fearless is a great way to describe her. With Beausoleil, she was the only electric instrument in a group doing pretty traditional music. She could have easily played it safe and just blended in, but she really went for it and added a great new dimension to their music.

[Dave Klausner]

I would also like to mention Will Golden from the Bluerunners. They are a Cajun/blues/cowpunk/swampy band from Lafayette, LA, with great songs and a deep groove. Will's playing is beautiful and searing. "Honey Slides" is my favorite CD of theirs, but I've seen some live shows where he pulls out all the stops. Heck of a player.

[franksguitar]

If you consider dobro steel style as well as electric lap steel-Jerry Douglas

[Dave Klausner]

If you consider dobro steel style as well as electric lap steel-Jerry Douglas

Check out Jerry's record "Best Kept Secret." He rips on electric lapsteel on it. The tune where he trades licks with Derek Trucks is pretty amazing.