Just for fun. List your all time top 5 PSG artists

Gary Hoetker · Post by **Gary Hoetker** » 11 Dec 2023 10:05 am

Taking into consideration their tone, versatility, and perhaps most importantly, how they make you feel when hearing them play.

For me, it's Charleton, Mooney, Drake, Rugg, and Green.

No offense meant to the other greats.

Roger Crawford · Post by **Roger Crawford** » 11 Dec 2023 11:59 am

Emmons, Rugg, Green, Johnson, White

Charlie Hansen · Post by **Charlie Hansen** » 11 Dec 2023 12:04 pm

Green, Johnson, Franklin, Hartley, Maness.

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 11 Dec 2023 12:29 pm

Franklin, Garrish, Hughey, Dugmore, Carr, Delorme, Nichols

Paul Franklin
Sonny Garrish
John Hughey
Dan Dugmore
Teddy Carr(With Ricochet)
Dennis Delorme(With Prairie Oyster)
Warren "Gates" Nichols(With Confederate Railroad)

Stoney Stonecipher is also on the list because he helped me get started playing the steel guitar. Bruce Bouton too, because he was the first steel guitarist I saw on TV and also Myron Smith, who in 1989, was the Carolina Opry's steel guitarist-I saw him playing steel up close at the Carolina Opry in Myrtle Beach, SC and he was playing a ZumSteel

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 11 Dec 2023 1:13 pm

John Hughey
Buddy Emmons
Sonny Garrish
Mike Johnson
Tommy White

Dave Hopping · Post by **Dave Hopping** » 11 Dec 2023 1:26 pm

BE, PF, JayDee, Sneaky Pete,Bruce Bouton.

But you could just as easily list Moon, Speedy West, Alvino Rey, and Leon McAuliffe.

Andy Jones · Post by **Andy Jones** » 11 Dec 2023 1:28 pm

Man,this is tough!I choose Hughey,Charleton,Green,Overbey,and Mooney.However,there are so many greats that could have been included in my top five.I chose these because of their uniqueness and the fact that I am more familiar with their work than some of the others.A top twenty list would have suited me better,I think.

Frank Freniere · Post by **Frank Freniere** » 11 Dec 2023 2:00 pm

Emmons
Green
Maness
Dugmore
Brumley

RMckee · Post by **RMckee** » 11 Dec 2023 2:14 pm

Hard question... Actually the top 5 are probably easier to list than the top 10.

Buddy Emmons
Jimmy Day
Curly Chalker
Lloyd Green
Maurice Anderson

then, equally important to me are:

Junior Knight
Tom Brumley
John Hughey
Norm Hamlett
Ralph Mooney
Ronnie Moore
Jack Smith

The most important to me personally is Jerry Newberry... He got me started and kept me going.

But I digress and stray from the original question.

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 11 Dec 2023 2:21 pm

Impossible.

Jerry Horch · Post by **Jerry Horch** » 11 Dec 2023 2:52 pm

Paul,Curly,Lloyd, Buddy,John

Duane Becker · Post by **Duane Becker** » 11 Dec 2023 2:58 pm

Mine are
1. Buddy Emmons
2. Curley Chalker
3. Weldon Myrick
4. Lloyd Green
5. Hal Rugg
...it's hard to list just five, but I really have a fancy for Jack Smith.

Jack Hanson · Post by **Jack Hanson** » 11 Dec 2023 3:00 pm

Jerry Overstreet wrote:Impossible.

Agreed. Popularity contests should be the exclusive province of teenage girls.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 11 Dec 2023 3:56 pm

I have a split personality.

Lloyd Green
Hal Rugg
Ralph Mooney
Bobby Black
Jay Dee Maness

John Sluszny · Post by **John Sluszny** » 11 Dec 2023 4:42 pm

Jerry Overstreet wrote:Impossible.

I agree, best answer !

Bill Erchul · Post by **Bill Erchul** » 11 Dec 2023 4:56 pm

Tough choices here. Settling on 5 is too challenging so I'm going with 6:

- Emmons
- Day
- Kleinow
- Maness
- Franklin
- Green

scott murray · Post by **scott murray** » 11 Dec 2023 5:29 pm

5 is really tough.
as a D-10 player, I lean toward the guys who excelled on both necks:
Buddy Emmons
Curly Chalker
Buddy Charleton
Hal Rugg
Doug Jernigan

5 runners up would be:
John Hughey
Jim Murphy
Bobby Black
Sonny Garrish
Maurice Anderson

but I'd also have to include:
Ralph Mooney
Jimmy Day
Lloyd Green
Weldon Myrick
and perhaps my all-time favorite, Jimmie Crawford.

then there's:
Terry Bethel
Stu Basore
Julian Tharpe
JayDee Maness
Tom Brumley

and also:
Paul Franklin
Tommy White
Russ Hicks
Al Perkins
Sneaky Pete

so there you have it, my top 25!
shall I keep going?

scott murray · Post by **scott murray** » 11 Dec 2023 5:38 pm

yeah, let's make it 30:

Pete Drake
Walter Haynes
Bobby Garrett
Herby Wallace
Lew Houston

and I've still left so many out...

William Davis · Post by **William Davis** » 11 Dec 2023 6:13 pm

Competitions are for horses, not artists. - Bela Bartok

That said

- I'd start with Scott Murray's list of 25...and at least throw in Buddy Cage and Clyde Mattocks. And Jerry Byrd, who of course, didn't need pedals.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 11 Dec 2023 6:58 pm

Don’t forget Tommy Morrell!!

George Duncan Sypert · Post by **George Duncan Sypert** » 11 Dec 2023 7:34 pm

I would have to include to all of the others Wayne Gailey.

scott murray · Post by **scott murray** » 11 Dec 2023 9:29 pm

William Davis wrote:Competitions are for horses, not artists. - Bela Bartok

That said - I'd start with Scott Murray's list of 25...and at least throw in Buddy Cage and Clyde Mattocks. And Jerry Byrd, who of course, didn't need pedals.

kicking myself for not mentioning Buddy Cage. love Clyde too

Rick Campbell · Post by **Rick Campbell** » 11 Dec 2023 10:36 pm

scott murray wrote:
William Davis wrote:Competitions are for horses, not artists. - Bela Bartok

That said - I'd start with Scott Murray's list of 25...and at least throw in Buddy Cage and Clyde Mattocks. And Jerry Byrd, who of course, didn't need pedals.
kicking myself for not mentioning Buddy Cage. love Clyde too

I think you hit the nail on the head. It's the variety of playing/players that keeps my attention. I've heard some players, that I had never hear of, play a break on a song that stayed in my head for months. You never know what combination of player, song, singer, and band, that might come along and knock your socks off.

RC

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 12 Dec 2023 4:23 am

Don’t forget Tommy Morrell!!

Bobby D. Jones · Post by **Bobby D. Jones** » 17 Dec 2023 3:44 pm

I could not pick just 5.
I would not rule out our old forum member, RIP Mike Perlowin, He took the steel guitar into the unknown and showed everyone it could be done.