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Doug,
There is a fairly large amount of instrumental pedal steel music that's
been recorded by noted steel guitarists, but it's mostly on comparatively
obscure labels. One such record is "Steel Wool", by pedal player Winnie
Winston, on the Philo label. Winnie's a Philly steel player who's done backup
for a lot of fairly well-known folkies, like Rosalie Sorrels, Dave Bromberg,
and Mary McCaslin.
A good place to look for more such stuff would be a Nashville-based
record store that handles mail-order. The only one that comes to mind offhand
is Ernest Tubb's Record Shop, but I'm sure there are others. It's quite likely
that some of the folk-oriented mailorder houses (e.g., Rounder, DownHome, etc.)
may have a small amount of this material, too.
Probably the single best place to acquire instrumental pedal steel
recordings, though, is the annual pedal steel players convention, held every
year in St. Louis over Labor Day Weekend. According to Winnie, everybody who's
more than half-competent at the instrument shows up with tapes to trade.
Oh, one other record comes to mind: the 2-record set titled "Hillbilly
Jazz", with pedal player Doug Jernigan, plus Dave Bromberg, Vassar Clements,
and assorted other luminaries. It's not all instrumental, but mostly so; the
pedal version of Benny Goodman's "Breakfast Feud" is especially good.
--Dave Axler