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04 Jul 01 - 03:37 AM (#498060) Subject: Roy Nichols Dies From: GUEST,Gene Saw a newsgroup post where Roy Nichols, former Guitar player for Lefty Frizzell and later for Merle Haggard has died - after long illness, on July 3rd... Thanks for the music and memories... |
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05 Jul 01 - 05:05 PM (#499256) Subject: Cash comments about Nichols From: GUEST,Gene BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) - Country guitar player Roy Nichols, who played in Merle Haggard's band for 22 years and helped create the Bakersfield Sound, died Tuesday after being hospitalized with kidney inflammation and a bacterial infection. He was 68. Nichols began recording with Haggard's band The Strangers in 1963 and played with some of country music's biggest names from the time he was 16 years old. "A lot of people may or may not know that he played for Johnny Cash on 'Tennessee Flat Top Box,' the original version, and also on 'The Ballad of Ira Hayes,'" Haggard told the Associated Press in a telephone interview. Haggard credits Nichols with jump-starting his own career and playing a key role in developing The Stranger's distinctive sound. |