Everly Brother's "So Sad" arranged by Lloyd Green

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 27 Oct 2017 3:39 am

The Everly Brother's tune "So Sad" arranged by Lloyd Green on Pedal Steel with Junior Brown on Vocals. From Lloyd Green's 2003 CD "Revisited"

Don't think I've ever heard such a heartfelt vocal from Brown; they're usually ironic in intent or just a framework for instrumental pyrotechnics. Classic Lloyd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtAr9b-bBR0

Terry Barnett · Post by **Terry Barnett** » 27 Oct 2017 4:30 am

Oh boy, does Ray Price come to mind? Youâ€™re right Andy, that was heartfelt and beautifully played...Lloydâ€™s Steel is kinda laid bare and so in tune. I loved it.

David Cubbedge · Post by **David Cubbedge** » 27 Oct 2017 6:17 am

I just found this record on iTunes and love it! Junior Brown's performance on this song is heartfelt. Lloyd....well he's fantastic!

Fred Treece · Post by **Fred Treece** » 27 Oct 2017 9:04 am

Great post. Thanks, Andy.

All due respect to the speed pickers and genre-stretchers; this is what the pedal steel does best, especially in the hands of a master.

Junior can croon with the best of them and then make us laugh like the best of them can't. I can see him following this one up with "My Wife Thinks You're Dead".

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 27 Oct 2017 9:14 am

All due respect to the speed pickers and genre-stretchers; this is what the pedal steel does best, especially in the hands of a master.

Amen.

David Weisenthal · Post by **David Weisenthal** » 27 Oct 2017 4:25 pm

Yes fantastic. Lots of space in the tune. Lloyd did a live instrumental version at a steel show that was haunting... It was on youtube up until a year ago... Anyone know the one I'm thinking of? Please post if you can. Thanks Andy.

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 27 Oct 2017 5:36 pm

Yeah, I remember that David. I was there. I edited and snipped this quote from a 2007 post I made on a Lloyd Green topic.

I wish I had known the performance was on YT...I would have surely tried to download it.

Jerry Overstreet wrote:.....I have been moved by many a steel players delivery, most recently, Lloyd again in St. Louis. I snuk in the main hall one morning while he and the band were rehearsing.

The song was the E bros. So Sad.

It was without a doubt the most incredible thing I have ever heard. I had already heard the CD cut with Junior Brown, but this was purely instrumental. It was quiet in the hall as only a handful of people were there and I think everyone was afraid to even breathe.

He played the song later in the show on Fri. I believe and it was great as well. I was so disappointed when he chose to omit it for his final set the following night.

The CD cut with Junior Brown that Andy posted is great too. I have that disc autographed by Lloyd and Russ Pahl [who produced it.] One of my most prized possessions.