What was the first Steel Guitar Song you learned?

Pete McAvity · Post by **Pete McAvity** » 23 Feb 2022 9:48 am

Don't Bogart Me.

I had a six string Tonemaster, with which I aped a few little chunks of things here & there. Heard Red Rhodes on this tune & knew pedals were in my immediate future.

Steve Cattermole · Post by **Steve Cattermole** » 23 Feb 2022 10:46 am

On Top of Ole Smoky, from a Mel Bay book

Arty Passes · Post by **Arty Passes** » 23 Feb 2022 10:53 am

Steve Cattermole wrote:On Top of Ole Smoky, from a Mel Bay book

Yes! That's the book I was thinking of- not ShoBud

Larry Lenhart · Post by **Larry Lenhart** » 28 Feb 2022 4:23 pm

Harbor Lights on C6th on Fender quad non pedal 1968

Crazy Arms on Fender 400 pedal from Jeff Newmans book and vinyl record about 1969 or so.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 28 Feb 2022 4:38 pm

Sleep Walk

Robert B Murphy · Post by **Robert B Murphy** » 6 Mar 2022 8:18 am

Pickaway by Mike Auldridge followed by Steel Guitar Rag.

Tom Keller · Post by **Tom Keller** » 7 Mar 2022 12:09 pm

Great Speckled Bird by Roy Acuff featuring Pete Kirby "Bashful Brother Oswald" on Dobro.

Jim Bates · Post by **Jim Bates** » 9 Mar 2022 6:35 pm

Steel Guitar Rag by Bill Boyd and his Cowboy Ramblers.

The day (in April 1953) I got my Gibson lap steel(with the numbers on the frets and amp), I tuned to guitar to the record (had no idea what chords or key was) and learned it before I went to bed that night.

A few days later I got a copy of the "Country Song Roundup" that had a ad for Jerry Byrd's Steel guitar course for $20.
My life then never was the same!!

Thanx,
Jim