List a few great Lap Steel Players

[mikeratan00]

 

[27sauce]

Cindy Cashdollar
Ben Harper

 

[John H]

Greg Leisz
Mike Neer
David Lindley

 

[vanderkalin]

Ben Harper. Does pedal steel count? Robert Randolph.

 

[kushman]

off the top of my head....

Jerry Byrd
Leon McAulifffe
Speedy West
Don Helms
Buddy Emmons
Jeremy Wakefield
Bobby Horton
Lloyd Maines
Junior Brown

 

[Pete Faragher]

David Lindley

 

[Astronaut FX]

+1 Ben Harper

 

[kimock]

Gotta get Freddie Roulette and Billy Robinson on the list too.

 

[Clifford-D]

That Kimock guy, I just listened to Stella Blue from his NYE show last night. Beautiful. And incredible tone just the best.

 

[smokinop]

Steve Kimock.

 

[GulfportBound]

Sneaky Pete Kleinow (he played lap and pedal steel) with . . .

 

[mad dog]

Some of my current faves:

Mike Neer
Doug Beaumier
Jonny Lam
Cindy Cashdollar
Junior Brown

 

[kimock]

That Kimock guy, I just listened to Stella Blue from his NYE show last night. Beautiful. And incredible tone just the best.

Thanks for the kind words Cliff, and Happy New Now to you.

Pleasantries and salutations aside, there are too many truly great players on that instrument for my name to come up before page eleventeen million.

Debashish, Santo, Van Shipley, my buddy Roosevelt Collier, too many guys to list.
I'm a hobbyist. Love it, but it's not the bread and butter.
Maybe someday. .

 

[Cal Webway]

The Texas Swing folks, esp in the past.

 

[ripgtr]

The Texas Swing folks, esp in the past.

Yea.
Some noted above, but have to add-
Joaquin Murphey
Herb Remington
Leon McAuliffe
Tommy Morrell
So many others I am forgetting.

 

[ripgtr]

Buddy Emmons

You know, I was reading (again) the other day about Buddy and how he was so instrumental (pun not intended lol) in the whole design of e9, he was right there at the beginning, splitting the pedal, adding the chromatics, etc etc.
I was thinking when I saw your post, yea, he obviously was playing non pedal for years before the pedal was even invented, but I don't think I have ever heard any early pre pedal stuff he did. You know any?

 

[Clifford-D]

Thanks for the kind words Cliff, and Happy New Now to you.

Pleasantries and salutations aside, there are too many truly great players on that instrument for my name to come up before page eleventeen million.

Debashish, Santo, Van Shipley, my buddy Roosevelt Collier, too many guys to list.
I'm a hobbyist. Love it, but it's not the bread and butter.
Maybe someday. .

I think I was talking about you in terms of how you sing your song. It's like BB King, by far not the most technical player but he had a way he sounded that was all him, and I loved it.

 

[kushman]

You know, I was reading (again) the other day about Buddy and how he was so instrumental (pun not intended lol) in the whole design of e9, he was right there at the beginning, splitting the pedal, adding the chromatics, etc etc.
I was thinking when I saw your post, yea, he obviously was playing non pedal for years before the pedal was even invented, but I don't think I have ever heard any early pre pedal stuff he did. You know any?

I don't think there is any non pedal stuff from Buddy, not recorded anyway

from my understanding he was playing with pedals almost from the get go. I know he played straight steel but not for long

I probably shouldn't have included him in my list, but I was just spouting off the cuff >> my bad

 

[Dawg76]

PAUL FRANKLIN

Have seen him a couple times with Vince Gill. A legend.

 

[Sweetfinger]

Does pedal steel count?

Not as far as I'm concerned. They are very, very different instruments. If you asked for great keyboard players and someone mentioned Flaco Jimenez, would that count? An accordion has a keyboard on it, right?

OK, my guy is Tony Bruno. Nobody like him.