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Mike Neer


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Post  Posted 1 Mar 2007 2:19 pm    
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Roy Lanham said he was in a band with a blind steel guitarist named Billy Galloway:
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When the Whippoorwills disbanded in October 1941, Lanham went to Atlanta and joined the Shades Of Blue, a trio built around a female pianist and blind steel guitarist Billy Galloway. "He played like George Barnes on a single-neck steel," marvels Roy. "When I took a chorus, he would play a bass line. We played all jazz."


Anyone ever hear of him?
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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 1 Mar 2007 2:56 pm    
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I remember a thread about him on the old forum several years ago. Try searching the archive, Mike.
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Mike Neer


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Post  Posted 1 Mar 2007 3:01 pm    
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Nah, nothing that I could find, unless they spelled his last name wrong.
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Brett Bonner


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Post  Posted 10 Jan 2023 10:22 pm    
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I was reading about Roy Lanham to find about his Jazzmaster setup. I stumbled upon his quote about Billy Galloway. I found the following recordings with the Rice Brothers Gang, which has very hot horn like steel playing especially for 1940! Very good harmonica too by one Warren Sykes.

Nagasaki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExB3F853K7Q

You are My Sunshine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oqjF-txkZ8

Is it True What They Say About Dixie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1i5r5jkaOY

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Andy Volk


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Post  Posted 11 Jan 2023 4:48 am    
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Thanks for the links, Brett. He was fantastic! This was after Dunn but before Murph.
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Tim Toberer


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Post  Posted 11 Jan 2023 7:02 am    
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Those are some gems!
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Bill McCloskey

 
Post  Posted 11 Jan 2023 8:17 am    
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https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=2946731&sid=7242888875a4f03d48f2fca889ece20d

Steve Geis posts that he took lessons from Billy Galloway.
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