Roy Nichols
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Roy Ernest Nichols was an American country music guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for Merle Haggard's band The Strangers for more than two decades. He was known for his guitar technique, a m
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Ralph Mooney
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Ralph Mooney was an American steel guitar player and songwriter, he was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1983. He was the original steel guitarist in Merle Haggard's band, the Strangers
Roy Nichols
…1960, Nichols joined Wynn Stewart in Las Vegas. Merle Haggard was the band's bass player, and this meeting was the beginning of a long collaboration. Ralph Mooney, who played steel guitar in Stewart's band, also later went on to play that instrument on several of Haggard's recordings along with Norm Hamlet. When…
Ralph Mooney in 1969