Ray Austin Steel Guitar

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Ray austin steel guitar. Ray austin is on facebook. His new band consists of ray austin eric holmes on drums justin lightfoot on bass and vocals thurston selby on fiddle and vocals and justin alverson on. There s a local great guitar player named john mcduffie who also plays steel but i ve never heard him. A steel guitar is any type of guitar that is played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings a concept somewhat akin to playing a guitar with one finger the bar.

Doylestown pa us earth registered. His new band consists of ray austin joe ammons on drums jerry abrams on bass thurston selby on fiddle and vocals and dirt stinnett on guitar fiddle mandolin and vocals. In 1970 ray joined up with kenny vernon capitol records and toured all over the western states. I still go out twice a day walk 4 to 6 miles and mainly to mcdonalds and wendy s.

Ray austin pedal steel guitar raised right men dfw s premier classic country band started building their songbook of old school c w cuts and beloved sing along standards in 2014. The hard object held against the strings. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world. I m sure i forgot some people.

Guitar tutors instructional books and playbooks 2 to 5 guitars guitar team playbooks for piano and organ olafssongs schott alfred publishing schell music edition dux bosworth saz blues harmonica instruments ukulele instruments. Today they ve got a couple of hundred honky tonk heirlooms ready to go at the drop of a hat and every tune they play was picked to get butts moving on. I ve seen him working with ernest but he played guitar and the cow man played steel. Alverson s regular bandmates are son justin on lead guitar ray austin on steel and dobro ron thompson on drums jerry abrams on bass and thurston selby and heather woodruff on fiddle.

Posted 17 march 2000 08 49 am. Ray austin was born in texas on september 10 1950. In 1957 a door to door salesman knocked on his front door selling steel guitar and accordion lessons and the rest is history.