Hello Steel Players!

I everyone, I'm Rockne Riddlebarger of Cincinnati, OH. I have been a steel player, both acoustic and electric, for 40 years and 2013 will mark my 50th year of performing music on stage. I teach lap steel and dobro here in Cincinnati and perform with the ANDYMAN HOPKINS BAND. Our band is on the leading edge of a honky tonk revival in our area along with a couple of other bands and the audiences are eating up the sound the steel brings to the music. That's something we steelers have known for decades but people here are rediscovering or are hearing it for the first time and digging it. I play dobro, lap steel and console steel. On the electrics I play in the "West coast style" of hot licks in A6 and Emaj tunings and I draw much of my playing from the Western swing players of the 40's. I look forward to exchanging ideas and info with all of you......