I remember the first time I heard the Daniel Lanois tunes From Eno's Apollo album, I didn't really care for them. I didn't like the pedal steel guitar. I absolutely hated country music back then and I associated the sound of pedal steel with country and nothing else.
Eventually, the tunes grew on me and I've come to love the sound of pedal steel guitar. I also came around on country-tinged music as I fell in love with indie-folk which can make great use of traditional instrumentation minus the pickups trucks, girls & booze of crappy country.
This brings me back around to pedal steel in ambient. There's not a ton of it out there but definitely enough for a good mix. There are four main practitioners of ambient twang - Daniel Lanois, Chuck Johnson, Bruce Kaphan and Chas Smith. I think they all have appeared in earlier Low Light Mixes. All four are in this mix as well as Eno/Lanois tunes, some oddball selections, and some YouTube recordings. Many of the tracks here use an actual pedal steel guitar and some use lap steel.
Up next - synth sequencer heaven.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
Infinite ambient
a leaf on the wind - field recordings & ambience 2013
Sunday Morning Music - 1970s Recollections
Sci Fi Adventures - All These Worlds
Rivers Flow
Ambient by Non-Ambient Artists
Sunday Morning Music vol. 5 - Chasing Ice
dubscapes & dreamscapes
Headphone Commute ...and darkness came
asleep at the piano
Sunday Morning Music vol. 4 - To Speak of Solitude
s t r e t c h e d beyond recognition
illusions of autumn
Favorite Ambient Artists
daylight fades
Music for a Mars landing
The God Particle
Every day is like Sunday - Sunday morning music vol. 3
Transit of Venus
on the behavior of radio waves
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Irish Songs with Ken Murray
Immediately Kinfolk
Turned On
Resident by Hernan Cattaneo
Markus Schulz presents Global DJ Broadcast