Spider-bridge blues?

[bod]

Hi

I read on Michael's site that Eric Clapton used to play blues on a Dobro / spider-bridge style resonator. I'd like to hear this - can anyone name some relevant listening?

Any other blues-on-a-Dobro players come to mind?

Thanks

[Deleted]

Check out Roy Rogers

[fibrebundle]

I think he is playing slide on his Dobro on 'Unplugged' ('Walking Blues', 'Running on Faith', 'Rolling and Tumbling', ....).

[Michael Messer]

Hi Bod,

I assume you mean round-neck bottleneck blues playing, rather than lap steel playing?

Most of Eric Clapton's acoustic slide guitar playing is on his Dobro. What is not on the Dobro is on his Fine Resophonic guitars. Check out his early solo albums - 461 Ocean Boulavard, There's One In Every Crowd, Slowhand...etc. Also as fibrebundle has said, the Unplugged album.

Sam Mitchell played a Regal metal-bodied fiddle-edge spider-bridge Dobro. (a lot of hyphens there!) Check out his 1970s solo albums.

Shine On
Michael.

[blueshome]

Roy Rogers has played a 12-string Dobro in the past.

[marshcat]

Check out Graham Hine - of Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts. He also does a great job solo, playing a 1930s steel-body 14-fret spider-bridge Dobro:

www.grahamhine.com/

[robn]

How about squareneck spider-bridge blues?

I found this video by Naughty Jack on youtube while I was looking for some dobro clips.

He is a UK artist - but I have to admit I've not heard about him before?



I thought that this was a great song. It is so unusually to find a singer songwriter working with a dobro as their main instrument - particularly in a non-bluegrass or country setting.

I've listened to a few clips of the tracks from his CD and it will certainly be a purchase!

Robin

[thebluesbear( al)]

thank you robin

a great clip indeed

btw im loving that sidewalk.....

al

[bod]

Some great suggestions and links here, thanks. I'm starting to get an inkling of just how much good slide music there is out there that I've just not heard of, let alone heard! All a bit of an eye opener, really - or should that be "ear opener"? Still, I figure this is good news, loads of great new (to me) things to listen to.

Also, Michael was quite correct in his assumption that it was round neck, not lap, style Dobro playing that I had in mind, but ever since he drew my attention to that I've been thinking, 'hmmmm, I really don't know the world of lap steel at all' and must llok around on the net a bit when, I get a minute, to find bits and pieces to listen to. So, nice to find the discussion turning to include square necks and lap style, greatly enjoyed the Naughty Jack, too. The sound he has in that track sort of reminds a bit of the fab tones, intervals and tempos in some of Fred Kinbom's stuff www.myspace.com/fredkinbom , which I happened upon on in the course of initial internet searches for lap style stuff and greatly enjoyed and then found out he posts here - small world?big forum? who's to say?

(By the way, at risk of changing the topic, if anyone else who hears it can give a name or description to these almost "gypsy jazz" sounding commonalities, I'd be grateful (makes it easier to track down more similar stuff, which I'd like to do) - are they, for example, from some kind of European folk influences?)

[wolvoboy]

hi bod
here's Eric Clapton playing his Dobro washingto Dc 23 october 1999 here.s the link

wolvoboy

[wolvoboy]

hi bod just a few more for you to watch.








just a few of the greats
wolvoboy