{"id":789,"date":"2012-07-02T10:12:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T18:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pedalsteelmusic.com\/?p=789"},"modified":"2012-07-02T10:12:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T18:12:24","slug":"major-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pedalsteelmusic.com\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"Major Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello fellow players,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about all the people that have helped my career over the years. These are people I need to acknowledge and thank for hiring me.<\/p>\n<p>I have touched on many of them in the past. Starting at the beginning, I would like to mention Claude Gray. Claude was a neighbor of mine in north Nashville. This is a guy that I thank profusely for saying good things about me which is what really got my career lit and got me noticed by other artists.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I thank Jean Shepard for using me on some of her first recording sessions. Then there&#8217;s Ray Price. I thank him very much for being the kind of person that he was to me.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the artists that I worked with at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas really gave my career a boost such as David Rogers. I thank Pete Drake for lining me up with him. I got a lot of recording session work from my association with David.<\/p>\n<p>One artist that stands out to me is Billy Walker. He was the most appreciated star most of us have ever worked with.<\/p>\n<p>I was probably appreciated most of all by Pat Boone. Lynn Anderson was very important along with Ferlin Husky. I thank all of them for the opportunities they gave me.<\/p>\n<p>Another standout artist is Johnny Paycheck. Paycheck did a lot for me by encouraging me to be a showman and a show-off. The offshoot of this was that in between shows, the audience wouldn&#8217;t just come back and ask me to get Johnny&#8217;s autograph for them, but they actually wanted my autograph for being the nut that I was onstage.<\/p>\n<p>Stan Hitchcock has been very good to me through the years. Because of working with Stan and Bobby Goldsboro and having to learn their arrangements, I came to appreciate their music.<\/p>\n<p>Working where I had to back up several different artists on television shows, I had to learn a lot of new arrangements very quickly. The challenge of continually working on new arrangements was very good for me and catapulted my development as a player to a much higher level.<\/p>\n<p>Tanya Tucker was very open and easy to get along with and I had no problems learning her arrangements and appreciating what all she did.<\/p>\n<p>Artists I worked with on the west coast which include Dolly Parton, Bobby Goldsboro, Buck Owens, Linda Ronstadt, Emmy Lou Harris and subbing for Bob Hempker with Loretta Lynn deserve my thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Faron Young, George Jones and several other of the crazy men in the business. I learned very nice things from all of them and the experiences I had with them are responsible for my evolution as a player.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to become the very best player that you can be, then don&#8217;t ever turn down a chance to play with anybody because you never know what you&#8217;ll learn from the experience.<\/p>\n<p>Again, I thank all the artists I worked with for making me the person I am today.<\/p>\n<p>Check out our monthly specials at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelguitar.net\/monthlyspecials.html\">www.steelguitar.net\/monthlyspecials.html<\/a> and we&#8217;ll try to save you a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>Your buddy,<br \/>\nBobbe Seymour<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelguitar.net\">www.steelguitar.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:sales@steelguitar.net\">sales@steelguitar.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/bobbeseymour\">www.youtube.com\/bobbeseymour<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mms:\/\/radio.tnweb.com\/steelguitar\">Listen To Steel Guitar Music Streaming 24 Hours A Day!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steel Guitar Nashville<br \/>\n123 Mid Town Court<br \/>\nHendersonville, TN. 37075<br \/>\n(615) 822-5555<br \/>\nOpen 9AM &#8211; 4PM Monday &#8211; Friday<br \/>\nClosed Saturday and Sunday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello fellow players, I&#8217;ve been thinking about all the people that have helped my career over the years. 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