1. Lloyd Green was featured on Ken Burns' Country Music documentary film in 2019.
25 Facts About Lloyd Green
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Lloyd Green was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1988.
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Lloyd Green was born on October 4,1937 in Leaf, Mississippi, about 40 miles southeast of Hattiesburg.
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Lloyd Green moved with his family to Mobile, Alabama at the age of four, where he began to take music lessons.
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Lloyd Green was an exceptional student, to the extent that Oahu used him in their promotional materials and newsletters.
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Lloyd Green said, "I became the poster child for the course when I was about 10 years old".
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Lloyd Green had the ability to memorize songs quickly and was able to play them back exactly as his teacher had played them.
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About this time, lap steel guitars were getting pedals added to become the new pedal steel guitar and Lloyd Green made an improvised pedal to add to his lap steel using an automobile accelerator pedal.
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Lloyd Green graduated from high school in 1955 and attended the University of Southern Mississippi.
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Lloyd Green joined Faron Young's road band in December 1956 and stayed for 18 months.
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Lloyd Green soon played steel guitar on his first session, George Jones' "Too Much Water" recorded in the newly opened RCA Studio in Nashville.
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At that time, Lloyd Green didn't have enough money to renew his expired musicians' union card until Fred Rose's widow renewed it for him.
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In 1965, Lloyd Green recorded a demo of a song called "The Bridge Washed Out" for Decca recording artist Warner Mack.
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Lloyd Green was an unknown outsider at the time and Bradley wanted Pete Drake, who was a veteran studio player.
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Lloyd Green turned down a US tour with McCartney due to the fact that he didn't want to lose work in Nashville.
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Lloyd Green appeared with the Byrds at the Grand Ole Opry on March 16,1968 to promote the album, but the Byrds were booed and heckled by the conservative Opry audience who considered them "long-haired outsiders".
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Lloyd Green was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1988.
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Lloyd Green has performed with over 500 artists, has played on 116 number one hits, and over 100 top ten hits.
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Lloyd Green was featured with a speaking part on Ken Burns' Country Music documentary film in 2019.
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About that time Lloyd Green was playing a Fender Stringmaster lap steel which had been retrofitted with pedals.
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Young said Lloyd Green's steel was an "embarrassment" because it looked so shoddy, then loaned Lloyd Green a triple-neck Bigsby model with one pedal.
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Lloyd Green left Faron Young in mid 1958, and received a new guitar courtesy of Shot Jackson, who traded Lloyd Green's old Fender for a Rickenbacker doubleneck with two retrofitted pedals.
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Lloyd Green used three different Sho-Bud volume pedals, rotating them at intervals to keep the pots working efficiently.
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Lloyd Green owned a 1943 Dobro square neck given to him by Hank Williams Jr.
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Lloyd Green used it on many sessions, most notably on Don Williams' records.