The Texas Troubadours -- Leon Rhodes, Buddy Charleton - Rhodes-Bud Boogie
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Leon Rhodes and Buddy Charleton of the
Texas Troubadours boogie down as only they can on this wonderful song. From Ernest Tubb Show mid 1960s.
Two of the greatest guitarist in the country field. Actually just as versatile in jazz. Buddy Emmons and Leon Rhodes. Many thanks to Ernest Tubb who put them on stage..
But that's Buddy Charleton in that video (the steel player who replaced Emmons).
@@user-qw1et7yo4m I allready found out; thank you.
You know what makes them play that good? It's the magic green hats.
Let’s not forget to give the boss-man ET props for giving his guys a moment to shine AND promoting their single. That’s a boss who knows the value of the guys backing him up.
He had to know how good they were because his "singing" was terrible. Sounded like a drunk hollering from the next room.
His voice was as dry as the Texas landscape, as I remember it. It wasn't artificial just natural, that's why I like it.
In about 1963 or so a friend took me to see the Troubadours and I was lucky enough to go back stage and speak with Leon. He told me to always pick in both directions - start each stroke from wherever the pick laid and not to reset and start with a down stroke with new phrases,
Good advice I never forgot. Thanks Leon.
Leon setup my telecaster a couple years before he passed. guy was FULL of great advice
I got to know Buddy very well in the mid-1970s after he left the road life and returned to his home in Virginia. He was a brick layer with his father and I was a budding country music jock at Big K Radio in Warrenton. Buddy played Saturday night gigs with one of our other DJs as the singer. Buddy and I played a lot of golf together. A good time in my life... Buddy was such a nice guy! So easy to like and get along with. And man-o man-could he shred on that steel guitar!
Good to hear about the other side of 😊life of such a renowned steel great. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing 🎉
thank goodness for youtube and similar formats. 40 years ago you would have no way of exploring the vast musical talents hiding out there
inkey2 , you said a heart full right there, I once said id never own a cell phone or a computer, I still can live w/o a cell phone but life would be all cable repeats if not for youtube and those who have managed to dig up these great old nuggets . I guess a big thanks to all the archive taped sources too, BUT sometimes on some topics we have to weed out the fact from BS too ,too bad there' aren't any liar filters, oh well,I like to read now and then too as long as there are pictures........... grin
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You still have to know to look
was appreciating that exact sentiment today.
reference library in your pocket.
all the ads are like the annoying assed inserts that used to fall out of papers and magazines.
heheheh
peas
@@frankbergmanII well, you don't always "have to know to look". Much of the great stuff I find is by accident here on youtube. I am watching one thing then look at my side bar and see stuff I never heard of but decide to check it out anyway. Half the fun is clicking on stuff that looks interesting and unknown.
at 1:17 where leon zaps that low e string and lets it ring is so cool. his solos sound like they're from outer space...
buddy has the coolest rhythm in his solos and attacks the strings like a rock star... killer!
Ì had never heard this before and they were both great. The Charletons (Buddy and first wife, Karen, plus kids) lived next door to my family in VA for a while and were good people. I knew he played steel guitar professionally but didn't know he had such a reputation. RIP Mr. Charleton.
This video is quite addicting. I could listen to a loop of this for hours!
Leon, you blue eyed angel. Aside from your good looks, you play red hot guitar. My brilliant husband loves you. When Bob Moore says Leon Rhodes is a fabulous guitarist, you'd better stand up to the plate. There ain't no doubt, you did just that in this video.
Great music. Forever! God bless you, friend.
Buddy Charleton is my hero!!
Technical death metal from Texas.
You'll probably never see this reply but that is a Hall of Fame post. No snark - totally serious.
@KingsnakeSince1986 leon is the GOAT. I was able to spend a lot of time with him before he died.. guy was unmatched.
Rest In Peace, Buddy Charleton.
That was awesome!
Unreal! No words...damn! Cannot believe these guys.....we all have to take a back seat if we play music!
I saw Leon this weekend in St. Louis, and still pays great!
Just thinking to myself "I wonder if there is such thing as country jazz?" Boom.
Western swing is pretty much country jazz. A lot of bands even had horns
Try some speed West & Jimmy Bryant. Like this but slightly more out.
Leon Rhodes and Buddy Charleton... what a couple of MONSTERS. Thanks so much for these clips!!!
Wow, never heard of Leon Rhodes before but he's phenomenal!
This was real country music!
Sooooo good!!!! 🙌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
now this is music!!!!!!!!!!1
I love watching accomplished guitarists playing an Epiphone!
Still listening 12 yrs later.
Thank you for uploading!
Love that twang...these guys ROCKED!
Those guys are killing it !!! Great hats !!!
Great to see bud charlton in this video,Thanks.
What a great guitarist in a great band. My cousin was a Troubadour in Mr. Tubbs latter years. Ernest also had Billy Byrd before Leon. I play guitar also, but with Leon all I would be qualified to do is carry his guitar for him.
Steve Chapman was with the Troubadours after Leon Rhodes
Just unreal playing!
The most instrumentaly musically amazing thing I've ever heard oh wow
Agreed! That's the clip to play for folks who say they don't like country music
Not Buddy Emmons, but Buddy Charleton on steel, rest in peace. People argue Emmons is the best ever, but the era of the Texas Troubadours with Charleton on steel, about '62 to '72, was known as the Great Band, or the greatest incarnation of the band.
Leon's wide-eyed look at 1:00 is great... I have to believe he was experiencing a partial face-melting from Charleton.
Oh man, I love RUclips. These "cats" play sooooo clean. High standards in musicianship. The highest. Wow They should pack a fire extinguisher.
that is just Amazingly good !!
this is my favorite thing on the internet
I saw those guys live, twice in the mid 60s. Great musicians.
Buddy Charleton was fantastic! Pretty funky hats back then, too.
A couple of people have commented on the reverb effect used in this clip. If you get the chance to see more from this syndicated series, you'll notice that the effect is being applied to the full program mix, with the audio operator bringing that reverb level up and down as needed. In some other clips, he's late dialing it down when the song ends, and Ernest starts talking.
This was recorded in a commercial TV station, with 60's era broadcast equipment as opposed to recording studio gear. This sounds like a mechanical steel plate reverb, which would have been very common then in a TV station environment.
Many comments are getting the players' names wrong or mixed up. In this video crica 1965, the members of Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours were:
Bass: Jack Drake
Drums: Jack Greene
Rhythm guitar: Cal Smith
Lead guitar: Leon Rhodes
Sho-Bud double-ten pedal steel guitar: Buddy Charleton
Killer playing! Those are some crazy hats!
I agree that this was Buddy Charlton when I saw them play.
greatness!
Leon Rhodes shreds!
This stuff rules!!Somebody needs to put out a dvd,but until then we have RUclips!
These guys rock.
Incredible.
"Nashville cats play clean as country water". When John Sebastian wrote Nashville Cats for the Lovin' Spoonful he must have had Leon Rhodes in mind. No slurs, bends or overdriven distorted sounds.....just pure clean, melodic jazzy licks. Leon was the best.
Yes, JtS, your comment accelerated my own!! Hah!
Those hats are secret taco shells and were part of the musician's survival kit back in the day. You never know when you were gonna get stiffed on a gig so you had to be prepared!
you know that you are the man when they write your name on your guitar
That's what i call monster players!
Very good!
Outstanding!
the sound of flatwounds!
God I wish the Nashville Network (CMT) was still showing the Ernest Tubb Show.
Very jazzy.
So happy to be viewer #200,000! What a killer player, Mr. Leon Rhodes!
Hey, don't y'all hear Ernest Tubb saying, "Leon and Buddy wrote that"
He's referring to Leon Rhodes who is playing (the heck out of the) guitar and Buddy Emmons on Steel. Country music legends. Both Leon and Buddy are still alive and well. Leon is, for sure, still playing the heck out of the guitar with The Whites on the Grand Ol' Opry on a regular basis.
God love that blue eyed baby.
What a great guy.
Gotta love the green hats!!!
Great players, Great playing..and uhh..Big hats !
Pick it Leon and Bud !!
Thanks for posting this. I wish I had seen it when I was trying to learn this tune!
ahhhhhh leon
Thanks for filling in the gaps of my knowledge.
Good Truckin Boogie!
Very smooth !
Rest In Peace Leon - Dec. 9, 2017
God in the building.
Very nice!
Wow, nice!!
Hey, I would wear one of those hats in a second if it would help me play like that.
i think the hats were a contractual obligation. everything else is just gravy.
Obviously green was in back then, likely the 60's.
That was their secret. Gotta find me one of those hats!
@Playroute66....This is that wonderful place in between the world of Hank Williams and the world of Glen Miller that is categorized as Western Swing! Yes...you're right, it is swing...and yes it is good ol' American "country" too. And all of it, no matter what label you put on it...is essentially a form of jump blues with a different flavor of spice on it, when played at this tempo. Slow it way down and you make a waltz or a Texas two-step out of it too. It's all good!
Really - why is everyone saying this is country? cause of the hats?? people - this is SWING JAZZ!!!
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thanks for posting this.....
I'll tell you what - that guy DESERVES his name on his guitar. If I played like that, I would put my name in big letters on my guitar, the back of my jacket, my belt, my underwear - you name it.
I want a hat like they got.
nice hats! lol great players as well!
NICE!!
Awesome Guitar player.
I totally acknowledge the fact that my fascination with this video could have absolutely everything to do with those outfits.
The guitarist is using a delay FX which has to be tape like an Echoplex. Love this and thanks for posting this gem.
If you get the chance to see more from this syndicated series, you'll notice that the effect is being applied to the full program mix, with the audio operator bringing that reverb level up and down as needed. In some other clips, he's late dialing it down when the song ends, and Ernest starts talking.
This was recorded in a commercial TV station, with 60's era broadcast equipment as opposed to recording studio gear. This sounds like a mechanical steel plate reverb, which would have been very common then in a TV studio environment.
Soultrain, Country Dance Time is out of print (vinyl and cd). The closest thing you'll find is a cd called Almost To Tulsa, located at the Ernest Tubb Record Shop.
Gostei demais... Obrigado...
This is an excellent clip and great rendition of this song. Thanks for posting. Viewers may also be interested in John England and the Western Swingers' version of "Rhodes Bud Boogie" which is on their CD, "Thanks a Lot"
Aaaaah LEON......
This could easily replace all those crappie country songs that you hear on the radio today.
RIP Leon
Yea!
Those flying nun cowboys hats are too much!
I didn't know Ernest Tubb had a fine jazz band behind him.
Love twin parts!!
I know, if anyone was going through the dial and this popped up I think a lot of people would stop and listen. And it would be a wide spectrum of people.
De aca salio el metal !!!
this is nuts, I love it
Next time you come to Wisconsin lets do this as well as"Buckaroo".
Groovy
Ernest Tubb was a great singer but this was the back bone of his career
Didn't know they had crazy delay like that back in the day.
OMG AMAZING WE SAW YOU ON YOUR TOUR BUS(:
Holy Crap-o-roni!
Leon Rhodes is the cat's meow.
Man ,styles change , especially the days of the old time CnW band type uniforms,and thankfully the days of the rhinestone Webb and Porter suits ,(They still look great on the females though) not to mention music itself especially whatever it is they market as C n W these days,but make fun of the hats and other garb all you want , sincere talent and musicianship never goes out of style
@marctrainor Buddy Charleton...classic!