The Red Clay Strays - Wanna Be Loved
Added 2025-04-14 22:15:01 +0000 UTCI'm sad that this got blocked on YouTube! This group has a warm place in my heart already. There's something about the voice, the style, and the overall experience that makes me feel...warm and homey.
I hope you enjoy!
Comments
I've seen a guy use a spoon. In the film The Commitments, the guitar player uses a pint glass.
Bill W
2025-04-15 00:29:29 +0000 UTCEuropean sailors introduced the Spanish guitar to the Hawai'ians. The Hawai'ians adopted a style of playing, laying the guitar on their lap and using a piece of steel rod to slide up and down the strings. That's where the term 'steel guitar' originated. (that same principle was also used on a one-string African instrument called a 'diddley bow', but was generally classified as a children's instrument.) Eventually it found its way to the mainland. Yes, the long neck of a glass bottle (or steel tube/pipe) could be cut off with a hacksaw and used as a slide and slid over the finger to allow the guitar to be played in normal upright fashion ie "bottleneck style". There are several type of slides- hollow steel tube, hollow glass tube, and a solid steel slide that's held between the index and middle finger (for lap position only).
Bill W
2025-04-15 00:27:06 +0000 UTCI have seen people do slide guitar with bottles and even cans.
Charles Coleman
2025-04-15 00:14:15 +0000 UTC
