Roy Ayres (2)

Born: December 10, 1929 Died: June 9, 2012 Began playing the Hawaiian steel guitar at age of eight years old. His career as a professional musician that has lasted more than 60 years. At the age of 15, Roy began playing on a regular daily radio show on WCBI in Columbus with a group called the Midsouth Ramblers. prior to his 17th birthday in 1946, Roy joined Pee Wee King and the Golden West Cowboys and moved to Nashville, Tennessee where Pee Wee's band performed weekly on the Grand Ole Opry. Cut scores of record sessions at the King Record Company in Cincinnati with numerous artists such as Cowboy Copas, Redd Stewart, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Moon Mullican. Inducted into The Seattle, Washington "Pioneers of Western Swing" Hall of Fame in 2005, the Sacramento, California "Western Swing Music" Hall of Fame in 2006, and the "International Steel Guitar Hall of Fame" in St. Louis, Missouri in 2007. He was the 57th steel guitarist to be inducted into the International Steel Guitar Hall of Fame since the inception of that hall of fame some 30 years earlier.