‘Steel Guitarist’ Magazine Back Issues
Some of you will remember my publication of Steel Guitarist magazine. Six of the magazine’s original issues remain available for $30.00 (domestic shipping included). Issue No. 5 is sold out and is only available for either reading or downloading here. Please open it up and get an idea of the worthwhile information that is in it, being as informative today as when it was published. With that issue posted here, the total of all the issues adds up to 390 pages of articles, editorials, interviews, columns, ads and tablature.
There aren’t that many issues of the remaining stock still available, so don’t end up deciding that you should have gotten them before they were all gone!
Issue 1
Interviews: Maurice Anderson (two interviews) and Bobby Black • Editorial: “SG’s Taping thoughts” • Articles: Retailer of the Issue “Mark Freed’s Music World” • International Steel Convention • Bar Chatter (letters to the editor) • Columns: World Views • Jeff Newman: “Lay Out, Lay Back, Or Laid off” • Greg Lasser: “Easing A Pot Volume Pedal” • Doug Beaumier: “Basic Picking Grips” • Winnie Winston: “Correcting Pedal Height Problems” • Richard Thompson: “The Pursuit of Steel Guitar Tone” • Fred Layman: “Transcending The Straight Bar” • Sonny Garrish: “A Good Session” • plus numerous ads of that period of steel history!
Issue 2
Interviews: Buddy Emmons and “Sneaky Pete” Kleinow • Editorial: “Orchestrating The Steel Guitar” • Articles: Women Into Steel • A History of Western Swing Steel • Chord Theory For The E9th, Part 1 • Harry Guffee’s “Steel Guitar Country” • A History of Western Swing Steel – Part 1 • Chord Theory For The E9th – Part 1 • Columns: Advisory Board Member, Jerry Byrd • Bar Chatter (letters to the Editor) • Jeff Newman: “The Mystic Triangle” • Fred Layman: “The Minor Mode” • Winnie Winston: “Adding a Half Stop” • Sonny Garrish: “Fastest Session & Nashville Number System” • Tom Bradshaw: “Electronic Tuners & The E-Bow” • Doug Beaumier: “The E to F Knee Lever” • Record Reviews • Classified ads and More.
Issue 3
Interviews: Jeff Newman (two interviews), Jay Dee Maness, Ruth & Harry Armstrongs’ Harmony Ranch • Editorial: “CMA’s Instrumentalist Of The Year” •Articles: A History of Western Swing Steel – Part 2 • Chord Theory For the E9th – Part 2 • Rare Ax • From The Advisory Board Member, Lloyd Green • Columns: Jeff Newman: “The Swinging E9th” • Andy DePaul: “The Koto & Yamoto-goto” • Bob Grossman: “Jay Dee Maness’ Break On Misty” • Greg Lasser: “Switch-Out Control Center” • Winnie Winston: “Installing Half-stops” • Doug Beaumier: “Beginners’ Survival Tips” • Fred Layman: “Adapting Your Electronic Tuner” • Sonny Garrish: “Some Session Thoughts” • Mark Tomeo: “Blue Hawaiian Skys” • Tom Bradshaw: “What Your Hear vs. What Is Heard” • Bar Chatter (letters to the editor) • Classified Ads & More.
Issue 4
Interview: Tom Brumley • Editorial “The Stereotyped Steel Guitar” • Articles: The Face of the Steel Guitar Convention • The Convention Performers’ Copedents • A History of Western Swing Steel – Conclusion • The Steel Guitar in Holland, Past and Present • Scandinavian Steel Guitarists’ Convention • Jay Dee Maness’ Copedent • Retailer of the Issue • Maurice Anderson “From the Advisory Board” • Columns: Andy DePaul: “The Steel Guitars of India • Bob Grossman: “Pedal Patter” • Jeff Newman: “Hot Lickin’ & Thumb Pickin’” • Winnie Winston: “Basic Mechanics” • Mark Tomeo: “Hono-Lulu Hula” • Doug Beaumier: “A Blocking Primer” • Fred Layman: “Gospel Steel” • Sonny Garrish: “Effects Devices & Questions” • Herbv Wallace: “The Many Uses of The C6th” • Disc Break (Record Reviews) • Classified Ads and More.
Issue 5
The Ralph Mooney Story • Destesto Number System • Buddy Emmons’ Pocket Corners • Correcting Lowering Problems • C6 Chords • Beginning Music Theory • …and more!
Since we have sold out of this issue, we have made an electronic copy which is FREE to DOWNLOAD HERE.
Issue 6/7 (double issue)
Interviews: Paul Franklin, Buddy Charleton, Tom Bradshaw, Gary Morse • Articles: The Steel Guitarists of Hank Penny • The ‘Honky Cat’ Flap • The Poor Man’s Pedal Steel • Brads-Rack • How Records Are Made • The World’s Smallest Steel Guitar • The Range of the Pedal Steel (and Other Instruments • Columns: From The Publisher: Publication Suspended • Editorial: The Killers • Sounding Off: “Reader’s Responses to SG Editorials” • Andy DePaule: “The Inventor of the Steel Guitar” • Buddy Emmons: “Minor Abrasions in the Pockets” • Neil Livingston: “Steel Guitar Funnies” • Bob Grossman: “Unison String Vocals” • Memorial to “Eddie Alkire; Clifford Kirk” • Stacy Phillips: “Dobro Raison D’Etre” • Michael Allen: Rare Ax, “The National Tri-Plate” • Chas Smith’s Classical Steel: “Christ Lag in Todesbandem” • Bob Maickel: “Steel Clubs and Associations” • Tom Bradshaws Forward Slant: “Over-Return Problems” • Jeff Newman: “Speed Pickin’ Controlled Panic” • Winnie Winston: “Installation of Replacement Pickups” •Mark Tomeo: “That’s the Hawaiian Swing” • Fred Layman: “Beginning Basics” • Jim Molberg: “Temper, Temper (And Other Emotions About Tuning” • Herby Wallace: “Applying C6th Chords to a Country Tune” • Doug Beaumier: “Get Out and Play!” • Greg Lasser: “Adding Remote Reverb” • Ned Self: “Record Reviews” • News & Views • Meet the SG Staff.
