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I PLAY STEEL GUITAR....TO ME AND MANY OTHER STEEL PLAYERS, ROY WAS THE PLAYERWHO CAUGHT OUR EAR AND WE SAID "I'VE GOT TO LEARN TO PLAY LIKE THAT".....HIS WORK WITHEDDY ARNOLD SET THE STEEL PLAYER'S STANDARD IN NASHVILLE UNTIL PEDAL STEEL WASINTRODUCED INTO RECORDS IN THE EARLY FIFTIES.....AND THE NON PEDAL SOUND WAS ABANDONED.THE YOUNG PLAYERS OF THE TIME WANTED THE ADDITIONAL CHORDS AND EFFECTS THE PEDALSPROVIDED..THE GUITARS BECAME MECHANICAL MARVELS THAT REQUIRED ALOT OF MUSIC THEORYTO PLAY...SEVERAL OF THE BEST PLAYERS IN THE HALL OF FAME NEVER WENT TO PEDALS THEYSTUCK WITH THE UNIQUE SOUND THAT SO MANY OF US LOVED.EDDY ARNOLD GAVE ROY A LIFE CONTRACT....AFTER THEY SOLD 70 MILLION RECORDS, EDDYQUIT USING A COUNTRY BAND IN 1955..BUT, ROY CONTINUED TO WORK FOR HIM, IN SOMECAPACITY, UNTIL HIS DEATH.THIS ALBUM IS ONE OF SEVERAL ROY RECORDED FOR US 'WANT-TO-BE'S'.... LIKE ME...AFTER THIRTY FIVE YEARS OF PRACTICE I CAN MATCH HIM NOTE FOR NOTE......KINDA....ON THE TUNES HE RECORDED WITH EDDY WHEN HE WAS 16 YEARS OLD IN 1945..FRANK HALLAUSTIN, TEXAS.