John Hughey

b. 27 December 1933, Elaine, Arkansas, USA, d. 18 November 2007, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Hughey was given a Gene Autry flat-top guitar when he was nine years old, but in his teens switched to steel guitar. He initially joined the Phillips County Ramblers and later joined Slim Rhodes And Mother's Best Mountaineers when their steel player was drafted to Vietnam and stayed with them for 15 years. In 1968 he met up with his childhood friend Conway Twitty and became a member of Twitty's backing band, the Lonely Blue Boys. His steel guitar playing was featured on Twitty's first U...