This is my current version of Kelsey, a tune written by Buck Reid on his CD - A Work In Progress. It was written for pedal steel & was inspired by the birth of Bucks daughter Kelsey.

Buck supplied the tab & backing track for this tune, I'm currently working on it, this is how far I've got with it. I'll continue to work on it to improve some of the more tricky sequences.

Kelsey

This a an improvised bottle neck style blues I played on Pedal Steel Guitar using a "Pottery Bar" to get the bottle neck tone.

Nothing fancy, just chill.

Super Slow Blues

Noodling on my Pedal Steel Guitar. This is the 3rd part of a 15 minute noodling session I did a few years ago experimenting with my new Pedal Steel Setup, which I routed through a bunch of effects pedals to get an Ambient vibe.

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Noodling on my Pedal Steel Guitar. This is the 2nd part of a 15 minute noodling session I did a few years ago experimenting with my new Pedal Steel Setup, which I routed through a bunch of effects pedals to get an Ambient vibe.

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Noodling on my Pedal Steel Guitar. This is the 1st part of a 15 minute noodling session I did a few years ago experimenting with my new Pedal Steel Setup, which I routed through a bunch of effects pedals to get an Ambient vibe.

Mush Room Noodles Part 1.wav

Something that just appeared from nowhere, might develop it later.

Old Hippy

This is a tune I put together whilst experimenting with my Fractal FM3 which I recently bought. It features Pedal Steel, Guitars, Electric Upright Bass all of which were put through the FM3. Also there is drums and a synth pad fill.

The lead guitar uses 2 guitars, the first half I use a Washburn KC70 and the 2nd half a Harley Benton 335. The double lead section at the end were played on a Tokai Les Paul. The Pedal Steel is a MSA Legend 12 string tuned to extended E9. The Upright is a Palintino which I've done a lot of upgrading on.

Hope you like it.

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Yeah this is an improvised guitar solo I recorded on Xmas Day 1992 on a Yamaha MT44 4 track cassette machine. I lifted the solo from tape into the PC and put new backing tracks on it.

When I listen to it now it reminds me of when I was spending a lot of time in Oban, that's me on the left @ 16 in 1972.

Was one of the best few years of my life, oh to be untied and an Obanite again :-)

Obanites Untied

This is a pedal steel version of one of my favourite tunes, Samba Pa Ti. Used to street busk this one on 6 string and wanted to give it a go on pedal steel, so here it is!

There's a Youtube version of my hands and feet playing this @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zooKqGIvptg

For the backing track I used - Guild F-1512 12 string acoustic, Palatino Electric Upright Bass, Alesis Dm10 Drums, various real hand percussion and Keyboards - Harmonium/Organ patches.

Samba Pa Ti - Pedal Steel

A humble rendition of the Santo & Johhny classic Sleepwalk, featuring Danny Scott on guitar, and my beautiful MSA Legend Pedal Steel.

Sleepwalk

This is my version of the track Weightless from the album Apollo composed by Brian & Roger Eno with Daniel Lanois. This album was composed for the film For All Mankind, which was about the Apollo missions. Daniel Lanois plays Pedal Steel Guitar on several of the tracks including this one.

I have wanted to have a go at a version of this track for sometime, finally got around to it.

I have also put together a video for this track which can be viewed on my Youtube page - https://youtu.be/Mp33lPc7VRo

Weightless

I wrote this tune after a visit to a monastery in Meteora in the Greek mountains, see picture. The monastery sits on top of an isolating mountain and monks used ropes to pull up their supplies in baskets.

While in the main body of the monastery I watched as a woman devotedly said a prayer and then lit a candle for her faith. I'm not a christian but this simple act of faith moved me and I realised that it didn't matter whether I believed or not, as this lady did,  I could see how much it meant to her and it sent a shiver up my spine.

A Simple Act

Had a bit of fun putting this track together. Basically a pedal steel improvisation to a not too serious fun backing track.

Billys Poncho

This tune is a tribute to my Father-In-Law who recently departed this Earth.

He was a great man in every respect who was liked and loved by many. He was in the Merchant Navy during WW2 and was on one of the few ships that survived the siege of Malta. He along with others was left stranded on Malta with very little food and provisions.

He traveled the World in the Merchant and visited many different countries which along with his war experiences gave him a very broad and open minded view of life.

His middle name was Coull and one of my sons used to call him Jimmy Coull, which perfectly suited his demeanor. Born in Aberdeen he never lost his accent and was often nicknamed Furry Boots, as in Furry Boots is the shoppey. Surprisingly being from Aberdeen, 😎 he was a very generous man and had a great sense of humour.

We all miss him.

Just Jef

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