Top Three Steel Albums?

[Danny Mitchell]

A remark that the estimable Ken Byng made inspired me to ask this question of y'all. What are your top three favourite steel albums? And why?

[Danny Mitchell]

Okay, to get the ball rolling......there are so many great albums, that even I've heard, but these are three that I love, from soup to nuts!

1. Buck Reid - A Work In Progress (Incredible playing, great balance of material, can't stop listening to it )
2. Lloyd Green - Revisited (Not a wasted note, and beautiful accompaniment skill, and such a full tone)
3. Gary Carter - Gary Carter (First steel instrumental album I heard and it imprinted on me, like what happens to chickens . Great tone, intonation and a nice selection of tunes)

I'm waiting for the Sweethearts Of The Rodeo to come out in a downloadable format, so this could change.

[Ken Byng]

I'll take the baton Danny.

In no particular order;

Buddy Emmons - Black Album (aka Emmons Inc), Buck Reid - A Work In Progress, Steve Palousek - Let The Games Begin.

Just an aside - Buck is a really good mate, and at his house one time I was discussing his album with him and he told me that he had spent a load of prep time on it. I think it shows. My favourite track is Sour Dough.

It was very difficult to omit Lloyd's Revisited album, Mike Johnson's Almost Midnight plus Doug Jernigan's Uptown To Country. I've got hundreds of steel albums (vinyl and CD), so choosing 3 is not an easy task.

[Danny Mitchell]

Interesting Ken. I'll be checking those titles out.

I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when you were having that chinwag with Buck. I don't have any favourites from his album, as yet, they are all still blowing my mind!

[Donny Johnston]

Chicken pickin : Russ Hicks & Jimmy Crawford
The Black Album : The Man
Any LLoyd Green album