Legendary Hank Williams Sr, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn and Johnny Cash steel guitar player Don Helms getting set up in the studio with Mark David on November 15, 2007. His wife Hazel and Guided By Voices producer Todd Tobias are also getting situated as well as myself running the camera. He is using the EXACT steel guitar he used on Walking After Midnight, Jingle Bell Rock and over 100 Hank Williams recordings. He aquired this Gibson double neck steel in 1949
This footage was shot at Waterloo Recording Studios in Kent, Ohio
Don Helms is 81 years young!!
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Don....no tuner, sounds like a jazz pianist warming up and could not find a wrong note if he tried. We will see no more like him.
bjh65 5 months ago
give don helms his props for keeping real country into todays music scene. pictured in this video is his wife and high school sweetheart of many years. live long and prosper. get well soon don helms!
spinmore1 3 years ago
Wow! Talk about preserving history! No amount of "thank you's" can cover this gem!
resopicker 4 years ago
sure is funny looking at don and thinking, he was a good friend of hank williams, he is the one who recorded cold cold heart, cheatin heart and all them wonderful songs!!!
AustinSTEEL 4 years ago