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Topic: Johnny Hank Lee? Ms. Gulf Coast area |
Billy Carr
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Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 18 Jul 2005 3:52 am |
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| Several years ago there was a steel player named Johnny Hank Lee that lived and played on the coast a lot. I met him when I first started playing my old p/p in 71'. I believe he's passed on now. He used to play a lot of jazz on the C6th if I remember correctly. Just wondering if any players out there ever worked him or remember him. |
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Bill Stafford
From:
Gulfport,Ms. USA
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Posted 18 Jul 2005 4:02 am
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Johnny Hank was one of the very, very best players anywhere on the planet. It was a sad day here on the coast when he passed away.
And most of the folks he played with have checked out also. My cousin, Bert (Sonny) Parnell played bass with Johnny quite a lot. Sonny is now up in the Bransom area with the Overstreet bunch of folks last I heard.
Yep, Johnny Hank Lee was a steel legend here on the MIssissippi Coast. He is missed.
Bill Stafford |
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Charlie C Harrison
From:
Decatur, Mississippi, USA
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Posted 18 Jul 2005 5:05 am
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Billy, I worked with him back in the late 50 & early 60. around Meridian ,Ms. I remember when He got His first pedals. He went on & played with Pee Wee King. for a while.
Charlie |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 18 Jul 2005 7:40 am
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Charlie,
I did a couple of the Jimmy Swan Saturday afternoon TV shows in 61. Were you on any of those?
The band I was in were all in the Air Force and stationed at Keesler. There was a guy in Biloxi that sang Johnny Cash songs and he was the one that got us on the Jimmy Swan shows. |
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J PARKER
From:
Meridian Miss
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Posted 18 Jul 2005 8:22 am
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| Hi Charlie and welcome to the forum. Glad to see you on. I remember Hank Lee and wound up with the last black push pull emmons that he owned and traded him a D10 Sho Bud for it and wow did it have a sound. Hank was a very good player and i no a lot of people in that area sure miss his playing. Jim |
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Charlie C Harrison
From:
Decatur, Mississippi, USA
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Posted 18 Jul 2005 12:08 pm
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Jack, I was not in on any of those shows You are speaking of.I do know a steel player in Columbia,Ms. by thye name of Ken Cranford that played with Jimmy Swam. 1961 may have been before Ken time. I was playing lead guitar back in those days. Love the steel but sure didn't know anything about it !
Jim, heard that You are headed south Aug.06-05. Have fun . Thought a lot of Hank.
Charlie C. |
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Lynn Owsley
From:
Hendersonville, Tennessee
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Posted 18 Jul 2005 12:30 pm
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| Johnny Hank Lee was a fine player and a nice person, for a time he worked with Cash Cotton, whom I think Jack Stoner was refering to...Cash had a club which seemed to never close, and I was able to join Johnny Hank on many late night sessions long after the places on the beach front closed.I do have many plesant memories from the 60's with Johnny Hank Lee along Mississippi's Gold Coast. |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 18 Jul 2005 2:54 pm
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| Lynn, I don't think the guy I was referring to is the same person. At least when I knew him he was just working in a bar band in Bilxoi on the east end of town. He was only about 20 at the time. I think we met him in Cy's (Cy Simon) Place one night. |
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Billy Carr
From:
Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 18 Jul 2005 3:26 pm
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| I just hope that if JHL had any children or family that are involved in music that maybe some of them will get a chance to read the things that are being posted here on the forum about him. I just briefly met him one night in 71'(I think) at a club that used to be in Laurel, Ms. called Buddy's Lounge. My mother new the owner and they let me sit in the crowd so I could watch and hear him play that night. I think I was 14 years old. Shortly after that I met Bobby Bowman and John Hughey. So I had some pretty good early influences. |
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