Apparently Kellie Pickler is a Nashville recording artist, and a star of some stature. I don’t keep up on these things, so how would I know? But she seems to have done an unusual thing – she recorded a country album, in Nashville. I happened to notice something about steel guitar during the course of my Internet researches, so I naturally clicked on the link and found all this out by reading the resulting interview, an excerpt from which follows:
“There’s steel guitar all over this album. What do you think that brings out in the music that you’re making?
Steel guitar is one of my absolute favorite instruments. There’s something about the sound. It’s almost like it’s crying at times. You can feel the heartache or you can feel the fun that it’s having, I guess you could say. In songs like “Stop Cheating on Me,” it’s funny and really lighthearted — the steel guitar in that song is a smartass, you know? The steel guitar in “Mother’s Day” is crying, is emotional, is letting go.”
I got hold of the CD and gave it a listen, and it ain’t bad, pretty country, with some fine steel guitar. By whom, I couldn’t tell, so if you know, let me know.
Here’s the whole enchilada.
The liner notes say Paul Franklin is playing steel guitar on Kellie’s album. Glad you like it. I’ve been a fan of Kellie for years and this is the kind of music she’s been wanting to make.
You might also want to check out the pedal steel on Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue. There’s a great guy named Steve Spitz doing the work there: http://galholiday.com
Paul, huh? He sounds great.