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John Hughey was born December 27, 1933, in Elaine, Arkansas.He began playing guitar at age nine, when his parents bought him an acoustic guitar from Sears. [1] In the seventh grade, he befriended a classmate named Harold Jenkins, who would later become a prominent country singer under his stage name Conway Twitty. [1]
Donald Hugh Helms [1] (February 28, 1927 – August 11, 2008) was an American musician who was the steel guitar player of Hank Williams's Drifting Cowboys group. [2] He was a member of the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame (1984). [3]
Mountain Music is the sixth studio album by American country music group Alabama, released in 1982. A crossover success, it ranked well as an album on both country and pop charts and launched singles that were successful in several markets. This is Alabama's most successful studio album.
Harold Lee Chalker (October 22, 1931 – April 30, 1998), known professionally as Curly Chalker, was an American pedal steel guitarist.. Born in Enterprise, Alabama, Chalker began playing the lap steel guitar while still in his teens and made his professional debut in the nightclubs of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The organization contains inductees from outside the U.S. [9] and is sometimes referred to as the "International Steel Guitar Hall of Fame" to distinguish it from various regional associations. [ 2 ] The first woman to become a member was Barbara Mandrell in 2009 [ 10 ] An ongoing goal of the hall of fame is to secure a permanent museum site to ...
Jimmy Day (born James Clayton Day; January 9, 1934 – January 22, 1999) [1] was an American steel guitarist active in the 1950s and 1960s. [2] His career in country music blossomed about the time the pedal steel guitar was invented—after pedals were added to the lap steel guitar.
A decade ago, times for Muscadine Bloodline were not so wild. It was all about playing, singing, writing and growing confident at venues like the 250-person capacity room at Mobile's Soul Kitchen ...
Gerald Lester Byrd (March 9, 1920 [1] – April 11, 2005) [2] was an American musician who played the lap steel guitar in country and Hawaiian music, as well as a singer-songwriter and the head of a music publishing firm. He appeared on numerous radio programs.