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In the first 1990’s, a local general public radio station from Cincinnati, Ohio, WVXU, played web host to the Rider’s Radio Theater, featuring The Riders In The Sky. Two shows would be taped for broadcast on each go to. To be there was like going back with time to the early days of radio, filled with a sound effects man and each of the Riders doing different personality voices. The group consists of Woody Paul (Dr. Guitar heros Videos ) on fiddle, Too-Slim (Fred Labour) on upright bass, Joey the Cow Polka King (Joey Miskulin) on accordion and Ranger Doug (Douglas B. Green) on guitar. As we are dedicated to guitars, I’ll be discussing Douglas B. Green. Doug isn't just the guitarist, but sings lead vocals and yodels. He is also arranges for the Rider’s music. He has earned awards for songwriting. He sings lead vocal and yodels with the Riders In The Sky.

Ranger Doug also lays state to end up being The Idol Of American Youth. Green didn’t start out to become a musician. He got a level from the University of Michigan and did his post-graduate work at Vanderbilt, with a level in Literature. It had been during this period that he became interested in folk music, particularly Western Cowboy songs. Prior to Riders In The Sky, Green played in a number of Bluegrass Bands. He also was in Expenses Monroe’s group for awhile. He also became a member of the Buck White Family group, which performed Gospel tunes. Green supplemented his income by doing guitar repair work at Gruhn Guitars in Nashville. In my opinion, Ranger Doug is this generations foremost rhythm guitarist. He plays in the chunky style of Freddie Green and every one of the big band period players. Doug’s much loved Gibson L-5 was stolen years back. He currently prefers classic Stromberg guitars. Luthiers Charles and Elmer Stromberg designed these based on the Gibson L-5. However, the lower bouts on the Master 400 measured 19” across. These guitars had been cannons of audio.

They needed to be, to be heard above big band brass, reeds and drums. Strombergs are scarce, hence extremely important and collectible. When he's not touring and recording with The Riders, Doug Green plays rhythm guitar in the popular Nashville, Western Swing band known as The Time Jumpers. ENOUGH TIME Jumpers are omprised of nine of Nashville's finest studio and musicians and vocalists. The group were only available in 1998 with an idea from bandleader Hoot Hester to gather and play Western swing because of their own enjoyment. If you are ever in Nashville, check them out to discover if they're playing. Green offers authored a couple of books. One is called Playing Guitar the Ranger Doug Way. Green also authored a reserve on cowboy singers and guitarists, called Singing in the Saddle. The History of the Singing Cowboy. He is also a devoted collector of classic instruments. So it won't be easy to discuss most of his guitars.

We will adhere to the ones he's most seen using. Allow me one minute to digress. Wes Tuttle is probably not children name. Wes was in a handful of films with singing cowboy, Stuart Hamblin. Hamblin had popular song in 1955 called This Old Home. Tuttle owned and performed a left handed 1939 Gibson L-5 throughout his profession. Aside from dealing with Hamblin, Tuttle’s biggest state to fame was dubbing in Dopey’s component in “The Dwarf’s Yodeling Music” in the 1937 Disney version of Snow White. Tuttle was also in the Sons of the Pioneers. During the golden age of radio, he performed in Cincinnati on the Boone County Jamboree on 50,000-watt radio station,WLW. Tuttle got a couple of notable hit songs. One was called Detour and the other known as With Tears in my Eyes. In the 1950s he was a writer and performer on the “Town Hall Party” Television show in Los Angeles. A year after Wes Tuttle passed away, his widow, Marilyn, was thoughtful and generous plenty of to present Tuttle’s L-5 to Doug Green.