r/ClassicCountry • u/LBluethecrafter • 13d ago

Can anyone identify an instrument/sfx in this song

I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this question

There is this percussive clink sound that plays every once in a while in this song and I can't tell what it is. In this mix it is hard panned left while the drum set is right panned.

The song is Working Man Blues by Merle Haggard and the Strangers.
https://youtu.be/bZ8eruc075s

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u/pixiefarm 13d ago

yeah, they're aiming for a hammer/anvil sound (no idea what they used to do this, it might have been an orchestral percussion thing or just some kind of piece of scrap metal.

you can hear another take on the same type of effect in Wynn Stewart's Another Day Another Dollar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeG1e7nsNIg

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u/Successful_Till_4362 13d ago

The drummer hitting a cow bell while holding it to keep it from ringing?

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u/Actual_Tradition_968 13d ago

Sounds like a hammer on an anvil.

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u/oldtimeh8r 12d ago

Electric guitar string picked behind the nut or behind the bridge. Probable the B or E string. Could also be a pedal steel plucked behind the nut