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Are there any recent-ish [say from within the last two decades] tracks from without the blues quarter of the musical realm* that heavily feature slide guitar playing?

*I've no animus against blues nor the players of it.

― violoncellos, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 05:03 (nineteen years ago)

spiritualized

― filthy dylan, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

the smiths - how soom is now

― nonightsweats, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

Pavement - Father To A Sister Of Thought

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

Chas Smith - Santa Fe

― Tim R-J, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

re: Pavement - that'd be pedal steel guitar, no?

:zoviet*france, Something Spooked the Horses - glitchy ambience with a stunning melancholic country-esque guitar gliding over the top.

― ledge, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, what exactly is a pedal steel guitar?

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

Wikipedia told me and now I WANT ONE!! Funny, I'd always thought that that noise was always a slide guitar.

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

Chas Smith - Santa Fe

-- Tim R-J, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 08:42 (30 minutes ago)

Come to think of it, this might be pedal steel too.

― Tim R-J, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

Slide guitar is pretty much my favorite sound in the world, maybe it's from being raised on Little Feat. I don't particularly want to learn to play guitar but I'd love to play slide guitar.

My favorite current band that has a lot of slide guitar is Apollo Sunshine. Also, Two Dollar Guitar. And sometimes Sparklehorse. Anytime Nels Cline plays with a slide is great (especially on Carla Bozulich's remake of Red Headed Stranger). I really liked Morphine's whole thing with the slide bass, too.

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Doug Easley has plays pedal steel on albums by a lot of band's he's produced, including the Pavement song mentioned above: http://www.easleymccainrecording.com/

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

teenage jesus & the jerks

― pretzel walrus, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

also rose tattoo, although they're certainly bluesy

― pretzel walrus, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Sonny Sharrock (esp. on Guitar) always did some wild stuff, altho he never played slide more than 1/3 of the time. (And some of that was basically in the realm of blues.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

That last Daniel Lanois album was all pedal steel and not very bluesy. It's boring though.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

various KLF album tracks, Chill Out, etc

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas soundtrack

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

There's pedal steel on the first two Decemberists records - Castaways and Her Majesty. There's also some on the excellent Lucksmiths track "If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now." I think there's some on "Gone for Good" by The Shins, too.

― St3ve Go1db3rg, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

the new rameses III EP, 'honey rose', is stuffed to the gills with luscious slide-guitar drone.

― m the g, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

The new Clientele record has some nice slide guitar.

― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

have you heard of country music? How about Hawaiian music?

― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Grrr country and Hawaiian are both pedal/lap steel.

Slide guitar:
http://www.tle.se/pix/slide1.jpg

Lap steel:
http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/General/Glossary/SteelGuitar/SteelGuitarViews/lap.jpg

Pedal steel:
http://www.evertize.com/sutphin/images/judfrench-2.JPG

― nabisco, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

First week on the job you'll find
Everyone lies

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LS78j-fUdMc

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

i just started to learn lap steel about two months ago because, like Alex, i fucking love the sound but don't necessarily want to play guitar

it's tough to make things not sound major-y, though, until you get (a) good and (b) able to fuck with yr tunings (which are usually wide open)

― river wolf, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, to whoever upthread, there's plenty of country that uses slide guitar as well, particularly "modern" country.

― John Justen, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

WESTERN SWING Y'ALL

― river wolf, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

Super Furry Animals' "Sex, War and Robots" uses it to particularly gorgeous effect.

― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

More pedal steel goodness

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

Grrr country and Hawaiian are both pedal/lap steel.

To me, "slide guitar" in common usage encompasses pedal steel and lap steel. They're all stringed instruments with similar tone played by plucking with one hand and using a slide in the other. But perhaps that's not what violoncellos (great name, by the way) meant when he said it.

― St3ve Go1db3rg, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

What about Dobros?

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

that is a lap steel but with extra resophonication

― river wolf, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, this wikipedia entry seems to clarify the terms.

― St3ve Go1db3rg, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

and a cheesy bluegrass lover at the helm

― river wolf, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

calexico
allman brothers
junior brooks
speedy west

― m0stlyClean, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

Smog - I Was A Stranger
Silver Jews - lots
Rolling Stones - Faraway Eyes
Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay
Flying Burrito Brothers - Six Days on the Road? Lots more
Byrds - Hickory Wind

Aw shucks, any country rock or countrified rock tunes

Does Bowie's Eight Line Poem have lap steel or is that just guitar?

― iago g., Wednesday, 4 April 2007 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

Last Town Chorus use lap steel nicely: http://www.thelasttownchorus.com/

― caek, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

Steve, I understand the connections between them, but since the original poster mentioned blues, I'm working on the assumption that he/she is into trad slide / bottleneck guitar stuff.

― nabisco, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

psst

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=41132

― river wolf, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

btw whatever happened to that feature that automatically rejiggered internal links to their thread titles? i liked that feature

― river wolf, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus Lizard - Nub

― Bill Bary, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

Most Melt-Banana. And since Agata plays with a steel pick, he's effectively playing with a slide in each hand.

― shieldforyoureyes, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

resurrected in order to all these two nearly-devoid-of-import-to-anyone-but-myself points to be expressed:

(1) nabisco was aces in his/her assumption of my preference/intent

(2) A large round of deeply-felt thanks for all of your suggestions. Most of these have become treasured additions to my musical vocabulary and one suggestion "Something Spooked the Horses" is quite possibly the top new track that I've been exposed to in my young-dog's-day of a life. I could go ever-so-OTT in my verbal approach to how much this song moves me. So ledge, infinite thanks to you for that.

― violoncellos, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

"in order for..."

― violoncellos, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

poco - a good feeling to know

― and what, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

... that's pedal steel, not slide... though Poco do have tracks with slide on 'em

― Tom D., Tuesday, 4 March 2008 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

i dont know the difference :c(

what about steely dan - razor boy

― and what, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

... that's pedal steel, not slide... though Poco do have tracks with slide on 'em

-- Tom D., Tuesday, March 4, 2008 1:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I don't know if it makes sense to say pedal steel is "not slide" since it's played with a slide.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

Let's go round again (iow this was covered pretty well upthread).

Glad to be of service, vc. I must get around to checking out some of the other suggestions meself.

― ledge, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

a lot of apollo 440 stuff has slide guitar.

Q : you seem to still love the steel slide guitar that was predominant in the mid-90’s as its still apparent on the latest album ?

A: Yeah as Nok says ‘I know the meaning of life, it’s in the neck of my bottleneck slide’.
We worked a couple of years ago with Jeff Beck and that was one of his comments too . He doesn’t play much bottleneck, so it was hard work getting him to play some. Then the track we got him to play it on never made it to the UK album version (it’s only on the Japanese version) as someone had told him it sounded like Clapton and he didn’t want that!

― mark e, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

"One Way Love" The Dammned

― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

For a *slightly* different sound, go to Sonic Youth. Also, Lush used them all the time in shoegaze incarnation.

― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Happy Mondays - God's Cop! And, erm, the one off the end of Pills 'n' thrills. Holiday? Harmony? I get them mixed up.

― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

American Music Club - "Firefly"

― henry s, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

KAKI KING

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

Both Neko Case and Queens of the Stone Age have had incredible pedal steel players are various shows I've seen.

― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

Slide: Chris Whitely. Some is bluesy for sure, but check out his cover of "Are Friends Electric", or "Mountain Side" (Flaiming Lips) fer less bluesy examples.

― pauls00, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

that's some slide on Steely Dan's "Showbiz Kids"

Rick Derringer!!!

― will, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

Hindustani Slide

― ellaguru, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

:zoviet*france, Something Spooked the Horses - glitchy ambience with a stunning melancholic country-esque guitar gliding over the top.

-- ledge, Wednesday, April 4, 2007 4:42 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark Link

this sounds like klf

― and what, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

that :zoviet*france: track is great

if you like that, I echo Tim's recommendation upthread of Chas Smith, my favorite album being 'nikko wolverine' -- Cold Blue Music, S/D -- he's kind of the master of ambient pedal / slide instruments

haven't heard Susan Alcorn yet -- http://grown-so-ugly.blogspot.com/2007/07/susan-alcorn-and-i-await.html

― Milton Parker, Thursday, 6 March 2008 02:52 (eighteen years ago)

The White Stripes - I Fought Piranhas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXLmdciqUD4

"Desdemona" - Derek Trucks Guitar Solo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuadh1o0yC8

― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 6 March 2008 04:16 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sorry Trucks is not using a side in this one. Still a pretty awesome solo.

― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 6 March 2008 04:18 (eighteen years ago)

Derek Trucks Awesome Slide Solo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHRY6JnkIm4

― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 6 March 2008 04:19 (eighteen years ago)

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh...... CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND

― Tom D., Thursday, 6 March 2008 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

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