Bobby Black in the San Francisco Chronicle

Slim Heilpern · Post by **Slim Heilpern** » 6 Feb 2018 4:30 pm

Nice article about Bobby in today's SF Chronicle:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/music/artic ... 555598.php

From the article, upcoming bay area dates:

Bobby Black: With Ren Geisick. 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9. $20-$35. Montgomery Theater, 271 S. Market St., San Jose. (408) 506-0211. https://squareup.com/store/the-mexico-theater. With Crying Time. 8:30 p.m. Feb. 24. $10-$12. Ivy Room, 860 San Pablo Ave., Albany. (510) 526-5888. www.ivyroom.com; 8 p.m. March 17. $20. Armando’s, 707 Marina Vista, Martinez. (925) 228-6985. http://armandosmartinez.com

- Slim.

Brint Hannay · Post by **Brint Hannay** » 6 Feb 2018 5:40 pm

I suppose the editor at the Chronicle had no idea they were illustrating an article titled "Bobby Black — for decades, at the pinnacle of pedal steel" with a picture of Bobby playing non-pedal steel. $:\$

(He's a master of both!)

Bob Littleton · Post by **Bob Littleton** » 7 Feb 2018 8:00 am

Nice article about a wonderful musician and a kind man. Thanks for sharing this! Bobby is the real deal!

Bob Littleton · Post by **Bob Littleton** » 7 Feb 2018 8:01 am

Nice article about a wonderful musician and a kind man. Thanks for sharing this! Bobby is the real deal!

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 7 Feb 2018 8:01 am

I suppose the editor at the Chronicle had no idea they were illustrating an article titled "Bobby Black — for decades, at the pinnacle of pedal steel" with a picture of Bobby playing non-pedal steel. Oh Well

I sent them an email about this issue - we'll see if it elicits a response....

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 7 Feb 2018 8:48 am

It seems like every picture I see of him recently is him only playing lap, does he still play pedal?

At 83, I imagine its just easier to tote the Lap around.

Good article in general.

Dave Zirbel · Post by **Dave Zirbel** » 7 Feb 2018 9:22 am

It seems like every picture I see of him recently is him only playing lap, does he still play pedal?

He does play pedal steel sometimes but I think he mostly plays non pedal.

Here he is a couple of weeks ago!

Jack Hanson · Post by **Jack Hanson** » 7 Feb 2018 9:31 am

SGF members will obviously recognize the disparity between the photos and the text, but for the average reader of a major metropolitan daily, it'd be surprising if one out of a hundred would notice anything amiss.

That aside, nice article. And thanks for sharing.

Slim Heilpern · Post by **Slim Heilpern** » 7 Feb 2018 9:58 am

Craig Stock wrote:It seems like every picture I see of him recently is him only playing lap, does he still play pedal?

At 83, I imagine its just easier to tote the Lap around.

Good article in general.

Right, he commented at SWSGA last month that he didn't enjoy toting the PSG to gigs anymore. Hence the 12 string lap.

Gary Walker · Post by **Gary Walker** » 11 Feb 2018 9:26 pm

I lived in the SF Bay Area in 1953, and Bobby and his brother Larry played on a local TV show and I was dazzled by my first gimps of a hot guitar duo, playing life music.