I remember Roy Clark "pickin' and a grinnin'" with Buck Owens on Hew Haw when I was a kid, but I guess I never quite realized just how awesome a guitarist he was/is. I came across some of his stuff on Youtube this evening and was just blown away!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIr-BU_Y ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhiKgeJV ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipweRXwPFiQ

He's almost 80 and apparently still tours -- I'd love to check him out if he makes his way up to the northeast!

Roy Clark is a legendary guitarist/multi-instrumentalist! He is still amazing, even at his age. He is also a fellow Freemason and last year, he played a little gig here in Richmond, VA at the Scottish Rite (He's also a 32° Scottish Rite Freemason too).

Agreed ..not particulary my kind of music but he is one heck of a musician, I have seen some of the youtube Videos...some others of the time if you enjoyed that is Jerry Reed..amazing as well

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He can play darn near anything

An amazing player. He was also "Cousin Roy" on the "Beverly Hillbillies".

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If you like Roy, I posted this about a year or two ago. Look for the video with Roy and the green Baldwin 12 string electric.

http://aaronyakovetz.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=220:roys-guitar&catid=13:video&Itemid=41

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Wow schnepf13 . Like yourself, I had those visuals of him on Hee Haw. I never knew he was this talented! Now I have another guitar idol/hero to look up to!!!

Both great and add Glen Campbell to that list from that era.

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That's some nice tremolo picking from Roy -- and a pretty wild guitar, too!

Yeah, I guess between Grandpa Jones' goofy jokes and all the girls getting bumped on the behind with the fence panel, I hadn't really thought about all the excellent musicianship on the show. I know Buck was pretty phenomenal, too...

Barbi Benton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWN8zDKt6DY

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For me it was, and is, Lisa Todd "Sunshine" She is the most physically perfect woman I have never seen in real life. TV babe lust #1 (I sense a new thread coming to fruition)


Hee Haw is my favorite show. Reruns Sundy nights on RFD TV. You can see roy in action in the glory of his youth.

I love the Baldwin 12 string!

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Wow, that show had so many smokin' hot babes! I've always thought the most attractive women in music tend to be found in the country genre...

Let's not forget Nurse Goodbody

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The quintessential sound of 60/70's R&R:
Fender Tube Amps
Gibson Guitars

He was a great player, and I also grew up watching Hee Haw every Sat night, picking and grinning. But there were always some hot girls on that show!

He is actually one celebrity that I met in my life. I was working for College Satellite Network in Nashville and we spent two nights in the Grand Ole Opry. So we're setting up for the first night and I'm cruising down a hallway with a big roll of cable, I round a corner and plow into someone, almost knocking him over. Turned out to be Roy Clark! I apologized and called him by name, he said he was surprised I knew who he was since my KISS shirt didn't make me appear like his average fan! Told him I grew up on the HH show and we talked for a few minutes, he showed me some of the sets for HH. Really nice guy, of course I had no camera.