Lloyd Green • Nashville Cats 2006
Nashville Cats
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1h 20m
Lloyd Green, storied pedal steel guitar player and Grammy, ACM and CMA nominated instrumentalist, joins Bill Lloyd for an in-depth interview in the premiere instalment of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s ongoing “Nashville Cats” series.
Green, heard on more than 25,000 recordings and 117 #1 records, holds a remarkable string of appearing on at least three #1 songs per year for seventeen years straight between 1969 and 1985, playing behind a diverse group of artists including the Byrds, Paul McCartney, Johnny Paycheck, Charley Pride, Don Williams, and Tammy Wynette. Green’s career, beginning with the 1965 Warner Mack song “The Bridge Washed Out,” features both iconic performances and technical innovations in the development of the pedal steel guitar.
In a wide-ranging interview that begins with a seven-year-old and a lap steel guitar, Green speaks of his efforts to establish himself in Nashville, remembering how his work as a shoe salesman provided a path to his first session work. He discusses his work with Johnny Paycheck at Little Darlin’ records, his contributions to the development of Don Williams career, and how adding a pedal to his steel guitar produced the intro to Tammy Wynette’s “D-I-V-O-R-C-E.” He describes how his career ended in 1988 due to Meniere’s disease, and his return to music fifteen years later, playing on Alan Jackson’s “Remember When.” The interview includes Green playing memorable riffs from several songs, and audio and video clips of Green’s work with Charley Pride.
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