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rickenbacker frying pan1931: The first electric steel guitar (actually the first electric guitar of any kind) was introduced by Adolf Rickenbacker. It was nicknamed the frying pan for obvious reasons and quickly caught on with Hawaiian guitarists. It's easy to see that this was a vital step on the way to modern pedal steel guitars.

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junior brown

Junior Brown:
Mostly known as a fine singer/songwriter in the Ernest Tubb mold, dazzling viruoso of the guitar and his own hybrid guit/steel, Junior is also a fine pedal steel player. He doesn't currently play steel live because he likes to stand up, but that could all change. From a recent interview on lonestarmusic.com: "I've got one with pedals coming out that'll blow everybody's mind. That's gonna be like turning Frankenstein's monster loose on society, man. It's wild. It's gonna be a contraption. To be able to stand up and have knee levers and hip levers, moving the pedal board forward and standing up and having the guitar strapped to the pedal steel . . . It's getting really, really serious."

I can't wait for that monster...

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Contact Graham Lee

If you need a pedal steel part for your recording please get in touch with me. I've recently done 'net sessions for The Trashcan Sinatras and All India Radio which went very well. Let me hear an mp3 of your track, whatever stage it's up to and I'll let you know if it's up my alley. I'll let you hear what I have in mind and when you've okayed it we'll sort out a very reasonable fee and I'll get high res .wav or .aiff files to you post haste.

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