Pete Drake: SHO-BUD interview + PEDAL STEEL CV Session Work including (Roger Miller - Anita Kerr - Skeeter Davis - JERRY LEE LEWIS - et. al.)

Together with Buddy Emmons, Dobro-player Shot Jackson revolutionized the country music world with their development of the "Sho-Bud" Pedal Steel Guitar. Later, even while performing on the Grand Ole Opry and touring with Roy Acuff, Jackson established a guitar store on Broadway in downtown Nashville.

Roger Miller and Pete Drake
LOCK STOCK AND TEARDROPS

Pete Drake: 1) Forever 2) Sleepwalk 3) Randy Bachman /Pete plays
"I'm Just a Guitar (Everybody Picks On Me)" 4) Paradise

1) Forever by the Little Dippers. 1960 #9.
2) Guitar Country - flip of 3. with Chet Atkins.
3) Waiting For the Evening Train - 1963 RCA single.

Anita Kerr and her Singers were used as backup on the Decca label from 1951 to 1960. From 1960 to 1966 it was tha RCA label and the heyday of the Nashville Sound, of which they were an integral part. Here they numbered four and were named The Anita Kerr Quartet. Later they moved to other labels like Dot. In 1960 the quartet recorded some singles on the University label, using the name The Little Dippers for contract reasons. They had a hit with a vocal of "Forever". But the label apparently used a different quartet for touring shows and for the record cover. And apparently before they finished on Decca they rerecorded Forever there for an album under their own name. If so, that would be the LP "For You, For Me, Forevermore".


Pete Drake later made an instrumental hit of Forever, probably using the good old AK Quartet as backup there too.

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Skeeter Davis & Bobby Bare - Let It Be Me

Let It be Me (Je t'appertiens)
(Mann Curtis - Pierre Delanoe - Gilbert Becaud)

Jerry Kennedy, Jerry Reed - lead guitar Velma Smith - rh.guitar Pete Drake - steel Bob Moore, Henry Strzelecki - bass Kenneth Buttrey, Buddy Harman - drums Hargus Pig Robbins - piano Floyd Cramer - organ/vibes Jerry Smith - vibes Recorded: October 27-28/1964, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville

Skeeter Davis - You, You, You (1963)

Arranged by Anita Kerr /Conducted by Chet Atkins
Produced by Anita Kerr & Chet Atkins

James Wilson - guitar
Ray Edenton, Velma Smith - rh.guitar
Pete Drake - steel
Henry Strzelecki, Bob Moore - bass
Buddy Harman - drums
Floyd Cramer - piano/organ
Anita Kerr - harpsochord
Vocals: The Anita Kerr Singers
(Dorothy Dillard, Anita Kerr,
Louis Nunley, William Wright)

Jerry L. Lewis: KILLER ROCKS ON

PETE DRAKE, STEEL

Linda Hargrove: Mexican Love Songs 1977
co-written by Pete Drake.

Capitol Records release called: .
http://www.lindahargrove.com an amazing woman with amazing spirit. I met her in BookPeople over ten years ago and bought a demo tape that had great songs on it. Some were her previous hits but some of the best were previously unrecorded.
The following is from Linda's Website (see link above):
*BMI Country Music Achievement Awards
1984 "Tennessee Whiskey" recorded by George Jones, Epic Records

Over 100 recordings by other artists including:

Tammy Wynette, Leon Russell, Tanya Tucker, Michael Nesmith, David Allan Coe, Phil Vassar, Pam Rose, Marty Robbins, Ernest Tubb, Dionne Warwick, Julie Andrews, B.J. Thomas, Asleep At the Wheel, and others.

Vernon Oxford: They`ll Never Take Her Love From Me

STAR SPANGLED BANNER on Pedal Steel Guitar (National Anthem): Tony Prior (in the KEY of Country)

Played on my Carter Pedal Steel Guitar. This song is always a work in progress . I think everyone regardless of skill level or Instrument should play this song. For more information please visit wow.prior.com.

Margaritaville (Steel Guitar): Chuck Abend with "Show Me Express" @ American Legion Hall (Sept 8 2006)

Chuck Abend on steel with "Show Me Express" at American Legion, Sept 8 2006

Greensleeves: (DAVE BRUBECK/BIG BAND ARRANGEMENT) Blue Notes in concer Kansas City Country Club Plaza

Blue Notes in concert on the Kansas City Country Club Plaza