No Maam...You're not country !!

GaryHoetker · Post by **GaryHoetker** » 2 Dec 1999 7:28 am

Caught the rerun of Barbara and the DoRites last night on TNN (The New Age Network). Afterward, and still fighting nausea, I put her '73 hit "Midnight Oil" on the turntable. What a difference. I felt alot better.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 2 Dec 1999 7:32 am

My favorite Mandell song is Standing Room Only, which of course she didn't do. It really seems to me that all these "mega" stars forget about the songs that got them there.

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BJ Bailey · Post by **BJ Bailey** » 2 Dec 1999 7:45 am

No Mam I dont think your country either.
You are a use to be,country.
But now a swap for pop......Sorry Barbra

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Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 2 Dec 1999 8:48 am

For someone who STARTED on steel guitar, she sure doesn't have much of it in her records. Did anyone but me notice? But she was easy on the eyes! Maybe "Cookie" is the only one who knows how good a steelplayer she really was! (I'd like to watch her "jam" for a couple hours.) Was she ever at any of the steel conventions?

Hey, this is all just light-hearted curiosity...no flames please!

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 2 Dec 1999 9:23 am

As you all know, Barbara was "country when country wasn't cool." Now I think she's still cool, but I'm not sure she's still country

I was on a show years ago opening for Barbara when I played for Gary P. Nunn, (Cookie was great, btw; though I didn't have a chance to talk to him), and I thought she played pretty good steel. I think it was Steel Guitar Rag or some such. Mr. Jones could correct me I'm sure.

It was on one of those Hank Jr.-type songs where she played b*njo, sax, steel, bass horn, Uilean pipes, hammered Albanian dulcimer, some Tibetan instrument I didn't recognize, etc. You get the picture... as I recall, she might have even had wind chimes hanging from the back of her belt.

The wind chimes were a nice touch...

Hey, she's really talented, she's commercial, she's 52, she's "been there, done that," and she's making bucks. That's copasetic with me.

Mike Dennis · Post by **Mike Dennis** » 2 Dec 1999 8:23 pm

I love barbara.... watched the show... and caught myself yawning quite a few times.

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 2 Dec 1999 11:38 pm

52? Right...

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 3 Dec 1999 3:55 am

The super steel on S.R.O. is PF, from what I was told.

I have one of the old Sho-Bud instructional books with her picture on the inside back cover - standing in a mini-skirt next to a Sho-Bud steel.

But, I thought she abandoned music to become a Hollywood star??? (excluding old re-runs of her shows).

Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 3 Dec 1999 6:24 am

Well Herb, if Diamond Rio can say "metamorphosize" in a country song then I guess you can say "copasetic" on the steel guitar forum… (Neither of them seem to wash with my spell-checker but I’m too lazy to get the dictionary.)

Speaking of Barbara and steel, one of her steel mentors—a friend of her father—is a fellow forumite. He’s also Merle Haggard’s bandleader. Perhaps he can fill us in on her chops, etc.

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Jimmy Youngblood · Post by **Jimmy Youngblood** » 3 Dec 1999 7:41 am

Barbara Mandrell's "Years" is one of my favorite "chick singer" tunes...altho I'm not a Mandrell fan!

Tommy Minniear · Post by **Tommy Minniear** » 3 Dec 1999 9:27 am

I think what few times I've seen her play steel guitar on various television shows, couldn't have hurt the "exposure", of the instrument.

Pat Jenkins · Post by **Pat Jenkins** » 3 Dec 1999 10:06 am

I pulled a couple of Barbara's albums out(actually that's all I have, and there was at least as much steel as there is on today's HNC, mavbe a precurser of things to come. What steel there was, was very nice.

Don Walters · Post by **Don Walters** » 3 Dec 1999 9:04 pm

To my ear, I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool doesn't sound very country at all!

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Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 4 Dec 1999 6:51 am

Ron, if "copasetic" is not in your spell checker, you have a very "un-hip" spell checker!

Steve Allison · Post by **Steve Allison** » 4 Dec 1999 8:36 am

Come on guys, let's get off Barbra.
Did I say that!

Mark Frederick · Post by **Mark Frederick** » 4 Dec 1999 2:46 pm

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 4 Dec 1999 8:53 pm

"Sweetheart of the steel"

I have one of the old Sho-Bud instructional books with her picture on the inside back cover - standing in a mini-skirt next to a Sho-Bud steel.

This is the picture I think you were talking about...[This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 12-04-99]