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RIP Kelly Joe. You were a rare beauty... from the first time I saw you in '99 I was mesmerized by your original approach to country blues... Sing on brother...

Just discovered this podcast! Great interview with Rob. You can tell he’s really into it. Such a vast knowledge and so many stories!

Just discovered your channel! Thanks to DJ DI WLUW 88.7- Chicago- her show- until six years?? ago- hers & her 1st husbands. Still named The Razor & Die Show. Since 2006? 4-6 PM Friday afternoons! Pravda Records 40 Years! The 4th song she played was yours- Leadville. I wrote it down- a gem!

Great job! I’ve been working on this one by ear on and off. Just copped a couple of details from your arrangement that get me closer to my goal. Of course, I’m playing nylon strings in standard tuning with a bottleneck! Lots of fun😎😁

Excellent!

P.s.s. I swear I've seen video from this recording session. Anyone able to confirm this? I cannot locate it ...

Just discovering this now. Thx, Steve, for sharing this insight into how terrific Bruce and the Sheiks are! Wonderful recording approach. P.s. you once played Almonte, ON, Folkus Concert Series, with this band - while you were mastering pedal-steel, not too long after the Sheiks tribute came out. This was amongst the best gigs I've ever seen! You are so right when you say these guys are a killer band, and to see you all together with that stage chemistry, experiencing your joy playing together, really transmitted that night.

Two eights packed in that is surprising. The amp looks almost as small as an Airline amp I have that only has a single 6” in it.

You seemed to answered a question that I have. I don't have a Weissenborn yet EST. 2 weeks but I put out on the Weissenborn post can you play a Weissenborn in open c and can you leave it there without doing any damage to the neck? I've been playing open C on a Dobro I call it my Ben Harper tuning. I'll be looking out for your videos

Beautiful. It shouldn't look that easy :-)

No one got close to the old Blues like he did. Not like this.

Wonderful Steve. I hadn’t heard that one before.

Thanks Steve..... it really was 'beautiful'!

Thanks Steve…very informative!

Great music from you both wonderful

Steve.....Thanks for this interview with my first guitar hero, Mr. Duane Eddy. The first song of his that I ever heard was Mason Dixon Lion (with the lion's roar) on the Reo label. I instantly became a fan. My parents took me to see him at a Sunday matinee at a club in Toronto when I was about 10 years of age. What a thrill that was !! I would loved to have had lunch with Duane and talk about his recording sessions in Phoenix, LA, and Nashville. His best recorded sounds on RCA were Dance With the Guitar Man and Twang a Country Song LPs. Still twangy but different from his Phoenix recordings. I remember an interview with Jack Miller in which he was asked if he could duplicate Duane's early recorded sounds with modern digital equipment....he replied that it could "absolutely be done". And there was an interview Duane did, and I think they were talking about the Dick Clark tours and he said something like "that's a topic for another day"....I got the sense that he felt he had been taken advantage of by Clark but didn't want to talk about it.

thanks for this, I love Audley! saw him july '01 in Brescia, Italy, the crowes were opening for Neil... great show...

This song lives rent free in my head. Thank you for your work sir 🙏

Just started using open C when I Tried to play, Ground on Down and Keep it Together by Ben Harper. Love the tuning It's got a hell of a growl to it.

Sounds great, but why facing towards the wall? Acoustics? Or hiding from your women?

You mean that the late Ben Keith didn't invent the steel guitar, lol?

Don’t mind me I’m just gonna watch this 1000 more times until I get it down. Thank you so much.

Love the video. Find it distracting to watch him and listen at the same time though. If I scroll down from the vid but keep listening, suddenly I can hear it. It's funny how rich it is when just listening rather than mixing the eyes into it. When watching him it looks simple or easy - what an illusion that is.

Just beautiful! Saw you play it live at Dream Cafe. Loved the story behind the piece too.

Great interview - well done!

What's the model of lapsteel you used here, Steve?

I just came across this and am so thankful. My intro to Kelly Joe was back in late 93 or early 94...right after I arrived in Portland. I walked into the Laurelthirst Pub one Saturday afternoon and there was this fellow playing beautiful lap-slide music and stomping on a box. I went into the pool room and happened to run into a friend of mine from Boston (super random) and he was just raving about Kelly Joe...during a break I went to introduce myself and thank him for sharing his beautiful music and we talked for a bit. He was so very kind. Towards the end of our conversation he mentioned there was another cool guy here from Boston playing pool...anyway, as a musician, my meeting Kelly Joe changed everything. As a guitarist he just opened up an entirely new realm for me. I feel incredibly blessed.

I love that sound and its such a great memory! Thank you for making this video!

This always stood out to me, especially with my grandfather being a lifelong lap steel player. So cool to hear this story after all these years, thank you!

I have one of those same Magnatone lap steels. Already love it cause it was my dad's but knowing it's the 88 Fingers Edward steel is even cooler.

Fantastic!

Is the tuning in open C by any chance , fine playing my friend

❤🔥❤🔥

Great stuff!

would definitely enjoy seeing more videos like this...nuts and bolts recording tips for roots and Americana music. TH-cam is chock full of talking heads with opinions about metal and hiphop, but definitely appreciate this insight.

This is really good stuff !!! Terrific drum work from Joachim !! from the Netherlands

Dude, you rock at the pedal steel guitar! That scene made that episode of Ed Edd n Eddy my favorite.

RIP Saw KJP a few times when he would come through Bozeman. He should have gotten a lot more accolades but we all know this is a tough business eh!

To stumble on the literal musician behind one of the most ironic musical peices of my childhood. Thank you for what youve given my generation and millions of fans

That amp sounds fantastic

Harp guys go nuts for these amps too. Great little amps!

Did you also do the music on the episode- little blue ed when edd was playing in the garage when the homemade movie was playing?

I couldn't hear any difference at all until the very end, with the finger picking at 6 inches. And I actually liked the bass notes on the cardioid... but I can see why a sound engineer would get a bit cringy about it!

This is beautiful! Open G?

Great to hear cool new Canadian music!!

🏝️Aloha🏝️🍀❤️👍

Steve, that's great and very well played. Mahalo

Muito bom

I've been waking up to that ''crazy steel playing that makes no sense'' for something like 10 years now. Best alarm sound ever 10/10. Thank you for this.

Love it. Thank you so much