1. Helpless – vocal: Brandi Shearer
2. Darlin’
3. Here Comes My Baby – vocal: Bart Davenport
4. Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
5. I Feel Fine
6. Ring Of Fire – vocal: Gary Claxton (Mental Revenge, live, 1996)*
7. Because
8. Dirty Work – vocal: Bart Davenport
9. The Kids Are Alright
10. Every Little Bit Hurts – vocal: Brandi Shearer
11. Six O’Clock – vocal: Bart Davenport
12. Isn’t It A Pity
13. Hickory Wind –vocal: Gary Claxton (Mental Revenge, live, 1996)*
Total time: 40:46
*Mental Revenge was a honky-tonk side project with Jim Campilongo when Goldmark was in the 10 Gallon Cats.
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Seducing the '60s
Joe Goldmark
Lo-Ball
Fans of rockin’ pedal steel guitar can follow several routes if they’re jonesing for discs with that quicksilver sound in a progressive mode:
- Albums by country-rock artists who hire session players, e.g. Rick Nelson (Tom Brumley), Michael Nesmith (Red Rhodes) and Stephen Stills (Al Perkins).
- Albums by country-rock groups with full-time steelers, like the Flying Burrito Brothers (Sneaky Pete Kleinow, RIP); Poco (Rusty Young); New Riders of the Purple Sage (Buddy Cage); Commander Cody (Bobby Black); and Pure Prairie League (John David Call).
- Instrumental steel guitar albums containing a percentage of rock songs. This is a dying genre, begun in the ’60s and ’70s by virtuosos like Buddy Emmons and Pete Drake, with few practitioners left … Goldmark being one of them.
Goldmark has been putting out such records since the late ’70s (eight, to be exact – he would have put more out if he hadn’t taken a sabbatical from the studio between 1982 and 1994). Over the years, the San Franciscan’s releases have included songs by Elvis Costello, Steely Dan, Edgar Winter, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Elton John, the Beatles (an entire album!), the Grateful Dead, the Band, the Byrds, Bob Seger and Blind Faith.
And it’s not just the artists he covers but also the songs, which often wouldn’t be thought of as easily adaptable to the instrument – like “Darlin’ ” from the Beach Boys’ “Wild Honey.” Other highlights include “The Kids Are Alright,” featuring John McFee on second pedal steel; the Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Six O’Clock”; Brenda Holloway’s early Motown track “Every Little Bit Hurts”; and the Tremeloes hit “Here Comes My Baby,” written by Cat Stevens.
On “Seducing,” Goldmark branches out from his usual modus operandi by using vocalists for half the numbers. But whether it’s a person or the pedal steel guitar singing, he’s still the king of pedal steel instrumental rock.
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