{"id":6331,"date":"2017-04-30T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T22:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/?p=6331"},"modified":"2023-09-03T21:15:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T21:15:39","slug":"steel-guitarists-along-the-road-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/?p=6331","title":{"rendered":"Steel Guitarists Along The Road."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/steel-guitarists-along-the-road-2\/\">Austin Tripp<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/steel-guitarists-along-the-road\/\">Travis Egnor<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=5880&amp;action=edit\">Brett Robinson<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/steel-guitarists-along-the-road-4\/\">David Mills<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Country Music has THREE staple pillars of it\u2019s foundation or it\u2019s backbone if you will. Those are in this order the songwriter, the producer, and the steel guitar in my opinion it takes those three to make a classic Country Music album. My point being Willie Nelson \u201cRed Headed Stranger\u201d and \u201cWanted The Outlaws\u201d as two prime examples that had all three. Shooter will tell you rapidly \u201cWanted The Outlaws\u201d was the first platinum selling Country Music album EVER and defied the sough it was initially given by Nashville in the 1970\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Local music as a whole contains such a plethora of well rounded steel guitarists and pickers waiting for you to discover them if you are willing to wade through the broken beer bottles and travel the worn out back alleys of America to find them. You have to look in the places most normal people wouldn\u2019t, and you have to listen. You have to brave the heat and cold and discomfort of the fields and farms that spew forth these festivals, mostly you have to study and watch for them.<\/p>\n<p>This edition of my steel guitarist series bring me to talking on a rainy Sunday afternoon with one of local music&#8217;s finest young steel players the mighty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/johnnyupok\">Johnny Up<\/a>. I sat with him for just a few minutes and he was kind enough to spend some time with me and answered a few questions for us. So sit back and enjoy this interview with another one of Red Dirt Country&#8217;s young guns making Country Music sound so good!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be honest in this interview he peaks of many people that he looks up to and admires doing things for him and today, he truly passed it on to me by taking a few minutes out to become involved with this project. This is MY intention to bring forth the young people playing steel in the honky tonks of today, and educating people on this whole world of unknown REAL Country Music whether it&#8217;s Nashville, Texas or Oklahoma. It&#8217;s out there waiting for YOU to support and love on it. And the people that play it are vastly talented and have become very good friends, I never met him yet but we truly connected today and appreciated one another. I must say he was really a great guy!<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B63pMXJDURA?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">GHC:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">How did you get started playing the steel guitar? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Mr. Johnny:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">I started out playing classical guitar, I was moved to an arts high school where you could major in arts programs and that\u2019s how I started learning how to read music and classical technique. I ended up going to the University Of Oklahoma for that. I dropped out of school and didn\u2019t do anything with music for a while. I was living in Baton Rouge and met some guys that were into the same kind of music I was, everything Parsons, and that was the first time the steel guitar really caught me. I joined a band called the Way Goners out of Hammond Louisiana and started playing pedal steel. It took a couple years before I was any good at it, but pretty much from day one I started performing with it. A lot of four hour bar gigs forced me to learn 40 or 50 licks at a time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">GHC:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Do you play pedal steel or straight steel, or both?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\"> Mr. Johnny:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">I play pedal steel, yes <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">GHC:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Whom did you start playing for after The Way Goners? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Mr. Johnny:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">I moved to Oklahoma City and started playing with John Moreland out of Tulsa, and Jeff Hobbs out of Ardmore. I made an album with John Moreland And The Dustbowl Souls. It&#8217;s called &#8220;In the Throes&#8221;. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">GHC:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">You played For Kaitlin Butts too right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Mr. Johnny:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Yes, and Cody Jinks and Zane Williams, whole bunch of people really\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">GHC:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Who influenced most as a young player? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Mr. Johnny:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">The album that I remember studying the most was \u201cHigh In The Rockies\u201d by Jason Boland. You know it\u2019s got Roger Ray on it, and he\u2019s also an Okie. He\u2019s somebody I really looked up to and I got a chance to open for the Stragglers pretty early on in my career. I was playing with Jeff Hobbs and after the Stragglers set he came offstage with people coming at him, trying to greet him but he made a bee line towards me and asked if I was Johnny. I was kind of star struck and said yeah. He told me how much he enjoyed my stuff with John Moreland, told me to keep it up. That meant a lot to me that someone I looked up to was listening and thought I was on the right track. It truly motivated me early on. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">GHC:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">If someone new came up to you and asked I\u2019m a kid I\u2019m new and I would like advice, what would you tell them? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Mr. Johnny:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">I would say don\u2019t think you have to have certain equipment or sound like other people. Until this past year I had yet to take a real lesson on pedal steel. And it was several years before I ever saw anybody play one in person. It all contributed to my sound. I know I don\u2019t sound like other people and I know i probably have bad techniques, but I have always found my own voice through not knowing how to sound like other people. When people hear my steel guitar they know it\u2019s me. I also have a bunch of instructional videos on my personal Youtube page&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/johnnyupok\">GO HERE<\/a> to see what he has up to offer you free of charge!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">GHC:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">That answered my next question, you are very unique you don\u2019t sound like anybody else. Wade Bowen came to town and had Miss Kaitlin with him I was hoping I\u2019d get to meet you. I\u2019m enjoying Country Music even more now from these interviews, because I have a better understanding of people like you. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Mr. Johnny <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Hopefully Kaitlin reads this! My first steel guitar was, you know everybody goes out and gets a Sho Bud Maverick that had sixty owners, where as I had a Fender steel with three pedals and one knee lever. I didn\u2019t know it even had a knee lever until I was boxing it back up to ship it to the next guy. There\u2019s so much I didn\u2019t know that I had to learn on my own. Making my own repairs on it, the guitar I bought next I bought seen only in pictures. I didn&#8217;t know what to look for, so when it wasn&#8217;t until the the guitar arrived that I noticed the under carriage was all gunked up and dirty, levers not pulling true. I took the whole guitar apart and cleaned it. I put it all back together as best as I could not knowing exactly how the changer and tension works. Just getting it to work right made me a better player. I know it had nothing to do with music really but it did help me understand a lot. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">GHC:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Are you on the road full time, do you have anybody staple that you play with now? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Mr. Johnny:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">I been doing a lot of studio work as of lately, but until the albums come out, you can find me with either Jacob Flint or Wink Burcham. I have an album coming out with Cole Porter Band which has the guitar player from Cody Jinks first four records..so that\u2019ll be a cool one coming out soon. I got to play all the steel on Cody Jinks&#8217; new album &#8216;I\u2019m Not The Devil&#8217; that\u2019s out right now. Jeff Hobbs new album \u201cUpward\u201d will be released soon. There is some stuff I&#8217;ve tracked out I don\u2019t know how far along they are but hopefully there will be new releases with Schuyler Prenger And The Dirt Road Junkies, Dylan Stewart, Johnathan White from Sons Of Strangers, Jonnah Liddell. It was great getting to work with producers like Mike McClure and Wes Sharon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">GHC:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">I really enjoy including more Red Dirt into my website program and I love the differences and similarity in our local scenes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">Mr. Johnny:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_5yl5\">I never paid much attention to the Nashville scene but to say that filling up the Exit Inn wasn\u2019t a highlight of my career would be false.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Tripp Travis Egnor Brett Robinson David Mills Country Music has THREE staple pillars of it\u2019s foundation or it\u2019s backbone if you will. 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