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Roy Ayres (December 10, 1929 – June 9, 2012) was an American
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player. A
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musician known for full chords and smooth tone, Ayres played steel guitar on all of
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’s major hits, including “
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”. He recorded with scores of King Records artists and played steel guitar in the ''
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'' western series. He was also a member of the 1950s band Boyd Bennett and his Rockets. He was inducted into the Pioneers of
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Hall of Fame in 2005 and the Western Swing Music Hall of Fame in 2006. In 2007, he was the 57th inductee into the International Steel Guitar Hall of Fame. Ayres was born in 1929, in
Columbus, Mississippi Columbus is a city in and the county seat of Lowndes County, on the eastern border of Mississippi, United States, located primarily east, but also north and northeast of the Tombigbee River, which is also part of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterwa ...
. He has a master's degree in physics and was Director of String Instrument Development at
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. He later resided in
Riverview, Florida Riverview is an unincorporated census-designated place in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States. It is located south of Brandon. The population was 107,396 in the 2020 census, up from 71,050 in the 2010 census. Many of Tampa Bay's radio a ...
, with his wife, Laurie. He died on June 9, 2012, at the age of 82.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ayres, Roy 1929 births 2012 deaths Steel guitarists People from Columbus, Mississippi People from Riverview, Hillsborough County, Florida