Kayton Roberts Steel Guitar Moments 1933 - 2017 solos & improvisation

Kayton Roberts (1933 - 2017) is an influential non-pedal steel guitarist and member of Hank Snow’s Rainbow Ranch Boys band from 1968 Until Hank's death in 1999, Kayton died Thursday (July 13) He was 83.

Roberts recorded with acts such as Marty Stuart, Randy Travis, Ricky Skaggs, Alison Krauss, the Cox Family, Aaron Tippin, Riders in the Sky and Billy Joe Shaver, among many others.

Kayton was Inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 2012, Roberts’ citation read, in part, “Smooth bar slants, singing, harmonics and Hawaiian bird calls created Kayton’s signature sounds.”

Born Nov. 25, 1933, in Ona, Florida. He told an interviewer he got his first guitar when he was “10, 11 or 12” and began playing in his father’s country band. During the early 1950s, after he left the family combo, he performed with bands on radio and TV stations in Gainesville and Jacksonville, Florida.

Roberts toured the world with Hank Snow and performed regularly with him on the Grand Ole Opry. He often noted in interviews that he was better known abroad than at home. He said Skeeter Davis once told him that her fans in Singapore asked if she knew Kayton Roberts lol.

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