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Birth name
  
Lloyd Green

Years active
  
1947-present

Genres
  
Country

Name
  
Lloyd Green

Occupation(s)
  
Musician

Role
  
Guitarist

Instruments
  
Steel Guitar


Lloyd Green Photos

Born
  
October 4, 1937 (age 87) Leaf, Mississippi, U.S. (
1937-10-04
)

Albums
  
Ten Shades of Green, Big Steel Guitar, Steel Rides, Too Much of an Angel, Far Away Places 1957, Revisited

Awards
  
Academy of Country Music Award for Steel Guitar Player of the Year

Nominations
  
Country Music Association Award for Instrumentalist of the Year

Similar People
  
Jerry Douglas, Harper Simon, Billy Swan, Bob Johnston, Michael Nesmith

Lloyd Green and Jay Dee Maness live at The Station Inn


Lloyd Green (born October 4, 1937 in Leaf, Mississippi) is an American steel guitarist. Green is most notable for his session work, having played on records with artists such as The Byrds, Johnny Cash, Alan Jackson, The Monkees, Jean Stafford, Lynn Anderson, Don Williams, Paul McCartney, Charley Pride, Bob Dylan, Johnny Paycheck, George Hamilton IV and many others.

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Early life

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Lloyd Green was born on October 4, 1937 in Leaf, Mississippi. He moved with his family to Mobile, Alabama at the age of four, where he began to take music lessons.

At the age of seven he learned to play a Hawaiian string guitar and eventually learned how to play the steel guitar. By the time he was ten, he was playing professionally in clubs a couple of nights a week with a rhythm guitarist.

Lloyd Green Pedal Steel Guitar Artist Lloyd GreenWorlds Greatest Musician

Green graduated from high school in 1955, and went on to study psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi. He left college at the age of nineteen and went to Nashville to seek fame as a steel guitarist.

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Over the years, Lloyd Green has become one of the most popular and respected pedal steel guitarist of all time, and arguably the best player of the E9th tuning on the pedal steel guitar.

Session work

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Green's joined Faron Young's road band in December 1956 and stayed for 18 months. He soon played steel guitar on his first session, George Jones' "Too Much Water".

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After he could not afford to renew his union card, he moved back to Mobile, but eventually moved back to Nashville and became a shoe salesman. He told his story to one of his customers, widow of publisher Fred Rose, and she renewed it for him.

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The first successful session he played on was Warner Mack's "The Bridge Washed Out" in 1965. For the next 15 years, Green averaged 400 sessions a year. The artists whose recordings he played on included Faron Young, Freddie Hart, the Byrds, Charley Pride, and Paul McCartney. He turned down a U.S. tour with McCartney due to the fact that he didn't want to lose work in Nashville.

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In the 1980s an ear infection forced Green to stop working, but he eventually returned to session work. He also plays live on occasion.

Lloyd Green was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1988.

He has performed with over 500 artists, has played on 115 number one hits, and over 100 top ten hits.

He was profiled in the September 2008 issue of Vintage Guitar magazine by music historian and journalist Rich Kienzle.

Sho-Bud LDG Model

Lloyd Green designed the Sho-Bud LDG steel guitar. His first was delivered on May 9, 1973 at his home by David Jackson and Duane Marrs of Sho-Bud. It was the fourth and last Sho-Bud guitar that Lloyd played on sessions.

His LDG was used on between 5000 and 6000 sessions between 1973 and 1988. One notable song recorded with this steel was "Farewell Party" by Gene Watson.

Sho-Bud Fingertip Double 10

Green played a Sho-Bud Fingertip Double 10 on many gold and platinum records for hundreds of major artists such as Ann-Margret, Frank Sinatra, Lynn Anderson, Charley Pride, George Jones, Ferlin Husky, Freddie Hart, Jimmy Dean, Dolly Parton, Faron Young, Johnny Paycheck, Roy Acuff, Bobby Bare, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Brenda Lee, Don Williams, Jerry Reed, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Statler Brothers, Jimmy Buffett, Peter, Paul and Mary, Marty Robbins and Hank Williams, Jr..

Also appears on

  • 1984: "The Celestial Sounds of Steel Guitars (VGK) with JB Van - produced by Robin Vosbury and Lloyd Green
  • 2010. The Lloyd Green Album (Red Beet) with Eric Brace
  • 2010: Master Sessions (Red Beet) with Eric Brace and Peter Cooper
  • References

    Lloyd Green Wikipedia


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