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Topic: Bill D Johnson... |
Steve Hinson
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Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 7 Jan 2017 2:06 pm |
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Anybody got contact info for his family?
Music business stuff that would be of interest to them...
TIA
Steve |
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Diane Diekman
From:
South Dakota, USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2017 8:27 am
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His son contacted me in 2010. William Bill Johnson Jr goes by Robin. Email at intoou24@gmail.com and phone number 214-862-3103.
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Diane Diekman
Sioux Falls SD
Author of "Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story"
Author of "Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins" |
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Steve Hinson
From:
Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2017 5:46 pm Thanks!
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Thank you,Diane!
I'll pass this along.
Thanks,
Steve |
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 8 Jan 2017 8:01 pm
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I'm guessing this in reference to Bill Johnson, who played steel for Marty Robbins for a long time.
On some of the old Marty Robbins "Spotlight" TV shows, you can often hear Marty's friendly bantering with band members.
On one particular show, Marty was mumbling a bit and I thought he referred to Bill by the nickname "Bluto", he of Popeye fame.
Am I correct or did my ears deceive me? |
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Ray Harrison
From:
Tucson, Arizona, USA (deceased)
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Posted 9 Jan 2017 5:58 am
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Bill's work on "The Shoe Goes on the Other Foot Tonight" was priceless. Great tone, phrasing and lines that fit like a glove.
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Ray Harrison
Bass/sing/Love PSG
77 Stingray/Kiesel 5 string bass
Telonics , Fender Rumble500, Polytone Amps
D-16 Martin, 1970 Ovation guitars |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 9 Jan 2017 3:41 pm
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At one time I owned the Bill Johnson '65 wraparound that he played on "Shoe Goes..." and sold it to a well-known Texas musician buddy of mine who, I assume, still cherishes it to this day.
Bill's widow... herself a great songwriter... called me a few years back wanting to acquire the guitar, but I sadly told her I no longer owned it. I gave her the whereabouts of the instrument but lost touch with the situation.
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My rig: Infinity and Telonics.
Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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Glenn Austin
From:
Montreal, Canada
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Posted 20 Jan 2017 6:18 pm
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| I owned Bill's 1977 Emmons p/p about 10 years ago. Sold it to a fellow in Belfast, Northern Ireland. |
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