{"id":3638,"date":"2012-05-23T01:48:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T06:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2012-05-23T01:48:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T06:48:05","slug":"pedal-steel-guitar-with-robert-randolph-and-the-family-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/pedal-steel-guitar-with-robert-randolph-and-the-family-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedal Steel Guitar With Robert Randolph And The Family Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3639\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3639\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/pedal-steel-guitar-with-robert-randolph-and-the-family-band\/800px-robert_randolph_at_emory\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3639\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3639\" title=\"800px-Robert_Randolph_at_Emory\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/800px-Robert_Randolph_at_Emory-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Randolph and the Family Band has been amazing audiences worldwide for the last decade. Photo couresty of Wikipedia.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the great pedal steel guitar players to emerge in the music world is Robert Randolph.\u00a0 Robert Randolph uses a unique approach to the pedal steel guitar, which is already a very hard instrument to play, and most of the time sounds like an electric guitar on heavy overdrive.\u00a0 I put together a post that features Randolph with his band and even came across a rig rundown from Premier Guitar.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy the rundown and the performances; the band is just as much fun to watch as Randolph!<\/p>\n<p>The first video is a performance at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2011.\u00a0 In the video, Robert Randolph and the Family Band pays homage to Jimi Hendrix by covering his song, &#8220;Voodoo Chile.&#8221;\u00a0 Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DHNp8DyXL9M\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DHNp8DyXL9M<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/DHNp8DyXL9M&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The next video takes us through Robert Randolph&#8217;s rig.\u00a0 Premier Guitar offers a glimpse into the gear behind the music at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=fvwp&amp;NR=1&amp;v=EPjfqS5NvCY\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=fvwp&amp;NR=1&amp;v=EPjfqS5NvCY<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/EPjfqS5NvCY&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The last video comes from Randolph&#8217;s debut performance on the Late Night Show With David Letterman.\u00a0 Check out the great bass line and Randolph&#8217;s pedal steel guitar chops at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f4zpzEIdoPc\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f4zpzEIdoPc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/f4zpzEIdoPc&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Robert Randolph has been touring with Eric Clapton and pleasing audiences worldwide for the last decade.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed Robert Randolph and the Family Band as much as I did!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Griff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great pedal steel guitar players to emerge in the music world is Robert Randolph.\u00a0 Robert Randolph uses a unique approach to the pedal steel guitar, which is already a very hard instrument to play, and most of the time sounds like an electric guitar on heavy overdrive.\u00a0 I put together a post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}