Carl Kaye

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Carl Kaye

Carl Kaye (born February 1953 in Vienna ) is an Austrian musician who is best known as a pedal steel guitar player.

Life

Carl Kaye was born in Vienna in 1953 and has learned a wide range of musical instruments from various private teachers since he was five. In 1975 he received his first pedal steel guitar (a Shobud Pro-1 Singleneck) and declared the steel guitar to be his favorite instrument. In the following years he founded the bands Country Casanovas (1976), Western Union Band (1980) and Route Sixty-Six (1982). From 1981 he started with his Pedalsteel as a studio musician (Heli Deinboek, Duo Mess, Ostbahnkurti & Chefpartie, STS, Roland Neuwirth, Horst Chmela, Hans Theesink, Sigi Maron, Wolfgang Ambros, Andy Lee Lang and many more) and also as a guest musician at various Live -Acts to work. He played with numerous US country artists in Austria ( Patsy Montana , Rose Maddox , Charlie McCoy , Narvel Felts , Stonewall Jackson , Norma Jean , Herb Remington , Kinky Friedman , George Hamilton IV. , Tommy Cash , Jack Greene , David Frizzell , Billie Jo Spears , Gail Davies ), but also with Austrian acts such as Kurt Ostbahn ("Ostbahn-Kurti"), who gave him the nickname "Commander", Meena Cryle , or Andy Lee Lang .

Carl Kaye is one of the few European pedal steel guitar players who was included in Mel Bay's "Anthology of Pedal Steel Guitar".

Discography (selection)

  • "From Me to You with Love" (LP, 1985)
  • "Texas on a Saturday Night" (CD, 1987)
  • "Bob Wills Music, Honkytonks, and Texas in my Heart" (CD, 1989)
  • "Louisiana Friday Night" (CD, 1995)
  • "A Tribute to Bob Wills" (CD, 1999)
  • “The Hottest Band in Town” (CD, 1999)
  • “Alive and Kickin '” (CD, 2001)
  • “Songs That Hank Wrote” (CD, 2005)
  • “Songs my Grandpa Used to Play” (CD, 2007)
  • “Bootscootin 'with Route Sixty-Six” (CD, 2009)
  • “Desperado” (CD, 2011)
  • “Dead End Road” (CD, 2014)
  • “Swinging Good Times - Live” (CD, 2016)
  • “Even the Bad Times Are Good” (CD, 2018)

Awards

  • 1996: Country Musician of the Year (ACMF Award, Austria)
  • 1998: Country Musician of the Year (ACMF Award, Austria)
  • 2002: Admission to the "Hall of Fame" (ACMF, Austria)
  • 2002: Country Musician of the Year (ACMF Award, Austria)
  • 2002: Song of the Year (ACMF Award, Austria)
  • 2007: Song of the Year (ACMF Award, Austria)
  • 2018: Country CD of the year (ACMF Award, Austria)
  • 2018: Lifetime Award (ACMF Award, Austria)

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personal data
SURNAME Kaye, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria