The instrument you ask about, saying it looks like a guitar on a table is called a Steel Guitar. Very popular in Country Music Bands, especially Classic Country back in the day. Another hit you may enjoy from MTB is, Heard It In A Love Song (The Marshall Tucker Band) Live. The flute rules in this one.
Missed this while I was deciding whether or not I wanted to survive food poisoning. Answering your questions: It's called a Pedal-Steel Guitar, and it's one of my favorite instruments. And, yes, gold rush times were wild times, and the law wasn't always on top of the wilding behaviors of men of the frontier when gold fever is a thing. Perhaps men weren't really shot for fun, but many were shot for imagined slights and offenses.
They are from a small town in South Carolina. I grew up listening to them. They were great in concert with the Doobie Brothers!
The instrument you ask about, saying it looks like a guitar on a table is called a Steel Guitar. Very popular in Country Music Bands, especially Classic Country back in the day. Another hit you may enjoy from MTB is, Heard It In A Love Song (The Marshall Tucker Band) Live. The flute rules in this one.
Missed this while I was deciding whether or not I wanted to survive food poisoning. Answering your questions: It's called a Pedal-Steel Guitar, and it's one of my favorite instruments. And, yes, gold rush times were wild times, and the law wasn't always on top of the wilding behaviors of men of the frontier when gold fever is a thing. Perhaps men weren't really shot for fun, but many were shot for imagined slights and offenses.
This is their usual singer Doug Grey, but the guitar player Toy Caldwell sang the other song you reacted to "Can't You See".
That is a steel guitar and is used often in country music.
it's a steel guitar