Bobbe Seymour "Soulful Steel" CD

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 10 Mar 2001 10:51 am

I've added Bobbe Seymour's latest CD to the Forum catalog. I'm listening to it right now. Man, that guy can pick! Click the picture below to go to the catalog page.
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Thanks for your continued support of the Forum, Bobbe!

Tommy Minniear · Post by **Tommy Minniear** » 10 Mar 2001 11:14 am

b0b, I got this CD off of Bobbe a couple months ago. It is great!! His version of the old Ray Price song; "Let Me Talk To You", is one of my favorites. Highly recommended!!

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Tommy Minniear

John Knight · Post by **John Knight** » 10 Mar 2001 12:26 pm

I've been a Bobbe fan for 5+ years. He is a great player. He brings several different styles to the fan and his use of unision voicing is unmatched IMHO. I have this CD and well as several tapes and his VHS tape for all the pointers is great.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 10 Mar 2001 12:40 pm

bOb; Here are Bobbe's answers to some questions I asked him last Sept about Soulful
Steel, Cut # 18; If You're Trying to Break My
Heart.......

"The first eight songs were of course with the Nashville Rhythm Section. I did all the
hiring and it was done at my studio 2 in 1993 & 94. Song #18 was totally finished
when we realized I did not give the guitar player an instrumental break in the song. So
we went back, re-recorded the first part
of the song's tracks before the modulation
and cross faded it on the end of what we had
just finished. Quite a feat in itself since we had to mix the tracks, tack them onto the end (remember it was a different key.), then with the steel not on the part that we added on, we put the lead guitar on instead. I know this is confusing but you should have seen how confusing it was when we did it.

I gave all the instructions for the mixing to
the engineer, telling him what I wanted, asking him if we could do this and him not
wanting to say no, did it.The chime effect throughout the song is my steel guitar, midi
through a Proteus with a Glochenspiel selected.

The guitar part (on the re-emerging song after the cross fade.) was played by Mike
Toppins on a solid body Gibson. This album so
inspired him that he is now playing steel for
Pam Tillis. The dobro work was done by myself on a flat top square neck Sho-Bud built accoustical guitar. My first session ever done on dobro was over 30 years ago on a song called "Harper Valley PTA." end quote.

I thought the Forum might like to read this
because I had a lot of enjoyment going into
the details with Bobbe. I agree with you,
he surely can play. Another Giant! Paul

Lyle Bradford · Post by **Lyle Bradford** » 10 Mar 2001 7:37 pm

The man gets a lot of flack as a dealer but is seriously underated as a talent. He rates in the top 10 with all ease!

Bill Sharpe · Post by **Bill Sharpe** » 11 Mar 2001 12:01 pm

I think I have most of Bobbe's albums and without a doubt, Soulful Steel is among the best he's cut. I can listen to that one over and over.

I'd have to agree that Bobbe easily fits into the top 10 players. A listen to Soulful Steel, and Masters of the E9th, with Jimmy Day will convince any doubters.

His video on the Emmons Push/Pull is top notch also, and I'm looking forward to the reprint of the manual.

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Chas Holman · Post by **Chas Holman** » 12 Mar 2001 7:52 pm

Last summer I bought an old Sho-Bud from Bobbe, and not only did he send along 2 new sets of strings - but also in the case was his "Soulful Steel" CD. What a guy..!

This fall, on a trip to Nashville, I went to his shop and finally got to meet him. When he shook my hand, I said, "Oh, yeah! Bobbe Seymour....you're the one who recorded that song, 'No One Will EVERY Know'..." (in case you didn't see it, check out the fourth cut, it's labeled that way on the CD itself, and twice on the liner...) Bobbe just grinned and shook his head.

BTW - before I left the shop, Tommy White called to rave about Bobbe's playing on the CD (he had just heard it). That phone call REALLY made Bobbe's day... he couldn't quit talking about how nice it was for "a great player like Tommy" to call and compliment HIS playing.

Glad to see you're offering it here on the Forum, b0b..!

John Lacey · Post by **John Lacey** » 13 Mar 2001 7:47 am

Hey Bobbe, who's version of Harper Valley P.T.A. did you play on? AMG says Jerry G. Kennedy played on Jeannie C. Riley's.
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A24rp284r058a

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 13 Mar 2001 1:12 pm

I like the version of 'Wichita Lineman'.

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Regards, Craig

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 14 Mar 2001 12:44 am

The other version of PTA was by Billie Jo Spears. IMHO she had the best version and she
also loves pedal steel guitar. Regards, Paul