Anybody have a favorite pedal steel guitar solo?

[griffi94]

I have a lot of favorites.
Rainy Day Woman by Waylon Jennings has a great steel part.
Ralph Mooney was hotter than a Texas sidewalk in July.

[thucythucy]

1. This is kind of out of left field

but there's a Memphis Slim song called "For a Day." It's an instrumental. I don't know who the pedal steel player is, but it's fantastic (and totally unlike anything else on any Memphis Slim cut I've ever heard).

I also like the solo in the Rolling Thunder version of "It Ain't Me Babe" on Dylan's bootleg series vol. 5.

[griffi94]

13. I don't know that song

I will look it up tho.
Thanks for the recommendation.

[thucythucy]

22. This is a much shorter version than the one I used to have on vinyl:

alas, lost these many years.

At the beginning it almost sounds like a wah wah pedal, but this was recorded decades before that was invented.

Wish I could find the longer version, but this is nice too. The longer version was called "For a Day" but I see here it's "'Fore Day."

Best wishes.

[griffi94]

23. This is great

Thanks for posting it.

[pfitz59]

2. Only the best

[Alacritous Crier]

4. Yep!

That's my choice.

[griffi94]

6. Agreed

That's a great song.

[Dem2theMax]

21. Just listening to that took at least 50 years off me!

All of a sudden I'm on the beach with my transistor radio, and I'm a teenager again.

I wish!

[pfitz59]

3. The great Buddy Cage..

[griffi94]

9. I love the NRPS

Buddy was faster than light.
Their version of Dead Flowers is still one of my favorites.

[sweetloukillbot]

5. Robert Randolph - The March!

[griffi94]

10. I've heard Robert Randolph

Never heard this song before tho.
Thanks for sharing it.

[sweetloukillbot]

15. I've heard a lot of amazing "Sacred Steel" gospel music

Randolph is just the tip of the iceberg if you want to go down that path. The sheer joy in it.

[griffi94]

16. The Sacred Steel music

It has a lot of energy. I saw RR and his Family Band play on Austin City Limits.
It's a joy to watch as well as listen to.

[sweetloukillbot]

7. This is pretty hot too - John Paul Jones ripping some Zeppelin to shreds

Saw JPJ do this during an opening set for King Crimson. Didn't have Paul Gilbert in the band though...

[griffi94]

11. This is smokin hot

I love the way it growls.

[House of Roberts]

8. Mike And The Moonpies - Cheap Silver

[redstateblues]

12. Sleepwalk by Johnny and Santo

[griffi94]

14. Pete Drake and his talking steel guitar

[blm]

17. Rosanne Cash's Blue Moon With a Heartache - Hank DeVito

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[randr]

18. Garcia on "Teach Your Children Well"

CSNY Deja Vu

[Zambero]

19. Sneaky Pete on "Devil in Disguise"

From the Flying Burrito Bros. debut LP. Taking the instrument to whole new level.

[blm]

20. Bruce Kaphan with American Music Club

Sublime