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Nashville had no session men during this period, so producer Fred Rose hired Red Foley's backing band, one of the sharpest around, to back Williams. As biographer Colin Escott observes, Rose probably felt the instrumental break needed a touch of class to smooth out Williams' hillbilly edges, and the band, especially guitarist Zeke Turner, was likely too fancy for the singer's taste.

And of course there's George Thorogood's version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXQ4tRlYgM0

Nashville had no session men during this period, so producer Fred Rose hired Red Foley's backing band, one of the sharpest around, to back Williams. As biographer Colin Escott observes, Rose probably felt the instrumental break needed a touch of class to smooth out Williams' hillbilly edges, and the band, especially guitarist Zeke Turner, was likely too fancy for the singer's taste. And of course there's George Thorogood's version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXQ4tRlYgM0

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My grandparents knew him and Ernest Tubb, I have a pic of them all together drinking beer at a table, with Mrs. Jimmy Rogers (she was close to my grandmother when Mrs. Rogers and Jimmy lived in San Antonio and Kerrville, TX).

She outlived him by quite a while. Mrs. Rogers gave my dad a guitar and told him to learn to play it but he never did and he said he doesn't know what happened to the guitar. He's 87 now and still healthy.

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What a great memory. I bet they got to listen to some great music along the way.

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Yeah I grew up with all that music and was named after one of them. Thanks for posting.