Join me this week on The Country Den. Guitar is an essential instrument, but I’ll focus on some others you hear in classic country and some you don’t. I’ve got steel guitar from the great Don Helms on songs by Loretta Lynn, Hank Williams and my gal Patsy Cline; John Hughey with his signature “crying steel” on a Conway Twitty classic; the banjo appears with Rascal Flatts, The Eagles, Ashley Campbell‘s tribute to her dad Glen, and the star of a Stampeders cut; fiddle and banjo together from Linda Ronstadt on a Neil Young classic; piano playing from Floyd Cramer and a sound effect he created for a Jimmy Dean record; horns and harmonica end up in the Extra Cash Track, along with a trumpet with Merle Haggard; a choir starts off a hit from Ray Stevens with some accordion by Los Lobos, and a major pedal steel guitar solo on a Webb Pierce record, along with hand claps, a typewriter, mandolins, bells and more.
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