Favourite country riff?

Hey,
What is your favourite country riff? I like the intro riff to "Gone Country" - Alan Jackson a lot and "Hot Rod Lincoln" - Commander Cody... too :)

if you consider hot rod lincoln country...im in

Fast As You opening riff.

Merle Haggard, Motorcycle Cowboy, I believe it is Redd Volkaert playing.

Merle Haggard-"Working Man Blues"... I know it gets used up a lot but it's still the standard. To me anyway.

Merle Haggard-"Working Man Blues"... I know it gets used up a lot but it's still the standard. To me anyway.

Probably first country riff I learned ... Still a favorite! :cool:

Grady Martin on Marty Robbins' El Paso

Intro and main riff to Long White Cadillac, as delivered by Pete Anderson, is one of my all time faves.

Guitars, Cadillacs...or Mama Tried (the acoustic picking and those electric bends...)

Guitars, Cadillacs...or Mama Tried (the acoustic picking and those electric bends...)

Dito.

Intro and main riff to Long White Cadillac, as delivered by Pete Anderson, is one of my all time faves.

Nice one!

Ok, so I'm not sure how to cross-reference threads on TPDRI so I'll just link the two and continue my discussion from that one here because this thread perfectly illustrates my point. So see this thread first, then continue reading below.

http://www.tdpri.com/forum/twanger-central/309252-hey-yall-please-check-out-new-tele-video.html

Ok, so on the "favorite riffs" I listened to all those named here, and not one of the them demonstrates the "new"-er style of playing that TJS's videos teach. If that sounds negative, I don't mean it to. I think it's a legitimate question to ask, "When did the style of TJS become popular, so dominate?" I think it is dominate, maybe not "New Nashville" dominant but prevalent all the same. I've listened to some Vince Gill, and I don't hear it (maybe I'm listening to the wrong songs). Albert Lee and Danny Gatton, yeah I get that, but they weren't really "country." So who else developed this style? And when did it become soooo popular? I'm asking more from an historical perspective, no judgements here. Marty Stuart and Kenny Vaughan and Brad Paisley, sure. But Paisley is pretty recent and all three are definitely outside mainstream country.

Dito.

Ditto Ditto.. And other simple licks like Cash's Folsom Prison Blues 'solos' and the the like for me...

+1 on Motorcycle Cowboy. I like the live from Billy Bob's, it's the only version I've heard.

+1 on Motorcycle Cowboy. I like the live from Billy Bob's, it's the only version I've heard.


Of course Redd nails that in his sleep. :cool:


I just read the 'Tall Blond Gal' in the video was his real [Merl's] honey/wife too. :mrgreen:

Merle Haggard-"Working Man Blues"... I know it gets used up a lot but it's still the standard. To me anyway.

+1 :thumbs:

-Jagg

Pretty much every song mentioned above

and this one

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Prolly Reggie Young's tastefully compressed solo in
Merle's version of "That's the Way Love Goes"

And some of Pete Anderson's uniquely quirky stuff DEFINITELY comes to mind!!


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Sugarfoot Rag by Hank Garland.

+1 on Guitars Cadillacs and Hot Rod Lincoln. Also: Country Boy & Luxury Liner (Albert Lee), Act Naturally (Buck & Don), Walk Right Back (Everly Bros)...there's more. :confused:
Swang on,

A couple of favorites not mentioned. Skid Row (Merle Haggard) and Highway Patrol (Junior Brown).

Led Zeppelin - "Down by the Seaside"

White Lightnin'

Led Zeppelin - "Down by the Seaside"

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Probably the first 2 minutes of this song. Jorgenson used it as the intro on the Desert Rose Band's tune "The Price I Pay."

Intro to Merle Haggard's Swinging Doors. Ralph Mooney and Phil Baugh on steel and guitar.

gotta go with pete anderson on long white cadillac...
also broke down south of dallas by junior brown

mamma tried

Merle Haggard, Motorcycle Cowboy, I believe it is Redd Volkaert playing.

Redd is great on this....and there is very little out on the internet / youtube....on how he is playing these leads....

some performance videos showing little.....

Mine is one I invented.
I'm not claiming to be the only guy that uses it.
I've showed it to a bunch of people over the last 34 years.
When I learn how to post video, I'll demonstrate it.
It's a faux pedal steel bend (without a B bender) that works over IV-I, V-I changes.
Like the "outro' of Floyd Cramer's "Last Date".
And yes, I play it too often.:oops:
It raises eyebrows, if only among guitar players.