Do love me some roots music and a pedal steel. According to Skunk Baxter, it’s the most difficult guitar to play. Quite beautiful indeed. Thanks for the recommendation.
Recommended for Americana Fans: Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters
I spend many hours exploring artists unfamiliar to me on Spotify. This week I came across this band. I’d never come across any mention of them before and thought other Americana fans here might enjoy them.
New York born and transplanted to North Carolina, Amanda Ann Platt is an excellent songwriter who’s asserted she’s as much influenced by Springsteen and Tom Petty as by Classic Country artists. Although a cursory listen might suggest the music is Country (due to the presence of pedal steel and mandolin and the overall rhythmic feel), the writing is more sophisticated and not hobbled by adherence to familiar Country tropes. In other words, it stands up to repeated listening. I particularly like "On The Ropes". On this particular record, the utilization of a Strat, incorporating bluesy bends and a Knopfler-esque tone imparts a Rock tinge that is distinctly different from Tele chicken-pickin’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDVVjPva0vI&list=OLAK5uy_lXj0YAS5kf7T47Eu-vEExnAyKAGjCSggk&index=2
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Yeah, escaped Houston and settled in here...wandered through in '90 ( yet another verse to wait for the music to get around to ) and returned when spouse suggested it'd be nice to live near her parents in Bermuda Run. Great to live here...her parents, not so much...absent father, stepmother treated her like yesterdays' trash before and worse after her younger stepsis....Thought less of me, apparently. 🤷♂️ Never bothered to visit here, 2 hr./150 mi. we'd do 1~2 X yearly...both dead now. Sis married an heir to the Arm & Hammer clan who got popped for child porn....dumb sh*t... We laughed our butts off over that.... ;) No, Helene wrought no damage to us other than some deadfall and a leaky window that soaked a throw rug in the bath, no biggie. The rain would drown out the winds, we're lucky to be in an 'alcove' of trees and a small bluff. Spouse walked out with the dog in the AM and I heard "HOLY SH*T!" when she saw the Biltmore entry, the still-swollen Swan. river, and the trees gone on the opposite shore....the bent high-tension tower....a VW Bug floating along.... 30ish yards away, 20ish ft. above and away....Power and water off, but both back just when we'd gotten into the new routines of generators (have 3, loaned one) and water issues (storm drain provided flushing, bottles for all but the FEMA showers and laundry), both came back. Upstream of the River Arts District, which got scraped away, literally.... Now, it's just the strangled commute traffic with only the 2 bridges that span the river near us and the dust that contains nobody knows fully what is in it that gets stirred up as it gets removed... ...and the sight of all the damage that will take years to fully remove, much less restore....if at all.... Some of forests show circular patterns from the tornadoes that flanked Helene.. That will take decades and more to grow back....Even the Blue Ridge Parkway lost road segments that are now closed with not a lot of detours.... 'Survivors' Guilt'? A bit, but happy to not have to start all over.... |
@musikcrayz - Interesting how pedal steel also worked their way into progressive rock. I've taken photos of both Steve Howe from Yes and David Gilmour from Pink Floyd playing pedal steel on stage; you can get a lot of interesting sounds out of it. |
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