Tonight's musician spotlight: Robert Randolph

[Larry]

This is how most people play the pedal steel guitar:

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This is how Robert Randolph plays the pedal steel guitar:

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[Mik]

Shredding! I saw them at Riverbend once. Great act.

[Larry]

An example of how completely different musicians work together, notice the man and woman dancing:

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Notice the same man and woman doing the same dance in a totally different genre:

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This was done 3 years before the first video...,

[Renauda]

I first heard Robert Randolph about 20 years ago. He was getting a lot of airplay on a local not for profit radio station here, CKUA. His playing completely blew me away then and continues to do so now. I have a few of his albums.

Randolph, Greg Leisz and the late Sneaky Pete Kleinow (Flying Burrito Brothers) are in a whole different class of pedal steel players.

Robert Randolph playing Hendrix’s Voodoo Child

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