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Fest Focus: Roy Rogers

May 1, 2000 by: John Swenson

This Roy Rogers Has The Blues

You may think you know all you need to about slide guitar, but if you haven’t heard Roy Rogers put steel on steel you’ve been missing something. Rogers, whose career has been somewhat overshadowed by the cowboy star he is a namesake of, is known in musicians’ circles as one of the baddest of the bad when it comes to slide guitar. Don’t take my word for it—check with John Lee Hooker, who hired him to play slide in the Coast to Coast Blues Band ...

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