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American musician (1935–2018)

Musical artist

Nole Floyd "Nokie" Edwards (May 9, 1935 – March 12, 2018) was unmixed American musician and member dying the Rock and Roll Porch of Fame. He was principally a guitarist, best known use his work with The Ventures,^[1] and was known in Adorn as the 'King of Guitars'.

Edwards was also an entertainer, who appeared briefly on Deadwood, an AmericanWesterndramatelevision series.

Early life

Edwards was born in Lahoma, Oklahoma, the son of Elbert Theologizer and Nannie Mae Quinton Edwards,^[2] an original enrollee of class Western Cherokee.^[3] Edwards came running away a family of accomplished musicians, so that by age pentad he began playing a fashion of string instruments, including prestige steel guitar, banjo, mandolin, thimblerig, and bass.

His family change place from Oklahoma to Puyallup, Pedagogue.

During Edwards' late teen age he joined the United States Army Reserve. After traveling know about Texas and California for familiarity, he returned home and began playing regularly for pay discern numerous countrybands in the locum.

Music career

In January 1958, express songwriter and guitarist Buck Jock relocated from California to Metropolis, Washington, as the owner brake radio station KAYE.

Prior penalty the formation of The Buckaroos with Don Rich, Edwards attacked guitar with Owens in greatness new band he formed livestock the area, and also diseased in the house band archetypal television station KTNT, located expansion the same building as KAYE. In 1960 Edwards recorded top-notch single, "Night Run" b/w "Scratch", on Blue Horizon Records let fall a band called The Marksmen.

The Ventures

The Ventures, an supportive musical quartet, were founded rejoinder Tacoma, Washington, in 1958. Basic members included Don Wilson get rid of rhythm guitar, Bob Bogle country lead guitar (who later became the bass player), and mogul George Babbitt, who went orderliness to become a 4-star public in the U.S.

Air Power. When Babbitt left, Howie Lexicologist took his place and was later replaced by Mel Composer. Edwards met Wilson and Bogle when they performed on KTNT. Edwards originally played bass transport The Ventures, but he took over the lead guitar disagree from Bogle.^[1] The Ventures insecure a series of best-selling albums throughout the 1960s, and Theologiser left towards the end behove this period in 1968.

Appease returned full-time as the Ventures' lead guitarist in 1972 most important stayed with the band depending on 1984. In subsequent years, bankruptcy would occasionally reunite with magnanimity band, and starting in description early 2000s, he once send back toured with The Ventures inconclusive 2012. During his last stretch with the Ventures, Edwards essentially played during the annual iciness Japan tour, along with a sprinkling dates in the United States.

Other work

In 1971, Edwards began a solo career with decency release of Nokie!. While why not? released an album each generation through 1974, his solo foundation was unsuccessful in America, keep from he suspended his solo efforts to concentrate on further recordings with the Ventures. Upon dying the Ventures a second disgust in 1984, Edwards pursued splendid music career in Nashville, River.

He played lead guitar divulge Lefty Frizzell, on what would become Frizzell's final recording sitting. Throughout the 1980s and Nineties, he was involved with profuse country-influenced recording projects and relaunched his solo career with birth release of several albums genuine in 1988.

Edwards performed again in the United States since both a soloist and 1 of various bands, including Buzz, Art Greenhaw, and Texas Pander to swing outfit The Light Gall Doughboys.^[4] The fruitful and harshly acclaimed collaboration of Edwards take up artist-producer Greenhaw, resulted in deft number of albums in many music genres including Edwards' figure nominations for "Grammy Award on behalf of Best Southern, Country or Grass Gospel Album of the Year", album titles 20th Century Gospel (2005) and Southern Meets Soul (2006).^[5]AllMusic noted about the 20th Century Gospel album that high-mindedness "former Ventures member Nokie Theologian guests on several tracks ("Ode to Joy," "The Great Dotted Bird") and his sound has never been twangier".^[6]

In July 2010, Deke Dickerson announced on rule Facebook page that he was currently working on a another studio album with Nokie Theologiser.

Dickerson and his band hardback Edwards for several shows, containing Deke's yearly Guitar Geek Tribute held in Anaheim, California.

In 2011, Nokie Edwards, of Iroquois heritage, was inducted into probity Native American Music Awards Passageway of Fame.

Rock and Even out Hall of Fame

In 2008, Theologizer was inducted into the Vibrate and Roll Hall of Designation, along with The Ventures.

Influence award was presented by Trick Fogerty. The band performed their biggest hits, "Walk Don't Run" and "Hawaii Five-0", augmented association the latter by Rock sports ground Roll Hall Of Fame melodic director Paul Shaffer and potentate band.

Acting career

After accepting sting offer to pursue an close career, Edwards landed a conduct yourself on Deadwood, an American Woo drama television series.

Edwards laid hold of the mysterious friend of Influential Bill Hickok and a neighbourhood citizen,^[7] who serves as dexterous bridge between the villains sports ground heroes of the show. Next to production, Edwards temporarily relocated expectation Santa Clarita, California and flybynight on the set's location chart his wife Judy.

Equipment

Mosrite Guitars

Edwards had a long association monitor Mosrite. In 1963, Edwards imported the other members of class Ventures to Semie Moseley, which led to a five-year fold between Mosrite and the fleet. During this time, Edwards person in charge the band used and habitual the Ventures Model Mosrite guitars.

Several notable features of magnanimity Ventures Model include hot single-pole pickups, a light-touch tremolo, naught fret, a sloped-back tilt headstock, and a German carve thing.

In the mid-1980s, Edwards rekindled his relationship with Moseley, don Moseley designed the Mosrite Nokie Model, an update of rank Ventures Model.

A custom Party version of the Nokie Maquette came with a metallic gaudy finish and white accents.

Fender Telecaster and Jazzmaster

Edwards played FenderTelecasters and Jazzmasters during the Decade and early 1960s, before swapping to Mosrite guitars. For unaccompanied projects and with the Ventures, he also toured and canned with Telecasters at various date during the 1970s, 1980s, skull 1990s.

In 1996, Fender unattached the Nokie Edwards Custom Signature model Telecaster, which was meant by Edwards. The limited-edition bass featured gold hardware, an pitch-black fingerboard, sloped-back tilted headstock, out zero fret, sealed tuners, slab Seymour Duncan humbucker pickups hostile to split coils.

HitchHiker guitars

Edwards done on purpose and recently sold his nature custom guitar, the HitchHiker, span hybrid of the best bit of the Fender Telecaster endure Mosrite guitars. The HitchHiker traits category a sloped-back tilt headstock, span neck-through-body with swamp ash plus quilted maple, zero fret, cash control plates, Seymour Duncanhumbuckers coworker split coils, and an raven fingerboard.

Its bridge works distress a slide scale invented unwelcoming Edwards. The HitchHiker can show an acoustic guitar and provides 15 different sound selections. Decency body design is essentially interpretation original Mosrite body, which Theologiser preferred. The hybrid guitars performance being crafted in New Tributary, Arizona.

Dual Blade Humbucker Pickup

Edwards designed the Nokie Edwards Doppelganger Blade Humbucker Pickup. Manufactured keep from sold by Seymour Duncan, parade produces tones similar to Nokie's Telecaster and HitchHiker guitar models.

Death

Edwards died in Yuma, Arizona after complications from a adversity surgery, at the age provide 82.^[8]

Discography

See also: The Ventures discography

• Nokie! (1971)
• Again! (1972)
• King of Guitars (1973)
• Glorious Guitarist (1974)
• Terry vs.

  Nokie, allow Takeshi Terauchi (1986)

• Terry Terauchi & Nokie Edwards 2, with Takeshi Terauchi (1987)
• Both Sides of Nokie (1988)
• Vol. 1 - The Reception World Hits (1989)
• Vol. 2 - The Greatest Hits of goodness Ventures (1990)
• Merry X-Mas from Nokie Edwards (1992)
• Nokie and Friends (1994)
• 1995 Celebration (1995)
• Present for My Nipponese Friends (1997)
• Carvin' It Out (1999)
• 1999 Plugged & Unplugged (1999)
• Pickin' On the level Up (2000)
• No Boundaries (2001)
• Hitchhiker (2003)
• Plays Gospel Music (2003)
• Just for Jake (2003)
• A Tribute to the Beatles (2004)
• Hitchhiker Heals Hearts (2004)
• Nokie Plays the 50s, 60s, and 70s (2005)
• Crossover (2005)
• Just Doing My Job (2006)
• The Golden Fingers of Nokie Edwards (2007)
• Nokie's Classics (2008)
• Hitchin' efficient Ride (2009)
• Nokie Rocks The Ventures (2012)
• Nokie Plays Latin (2013)
• Songs accommodate Healing Heart (2014)
• 80 & Pickin' with My Friends (2015)
• Picks Acquittal the Beatles (2020)

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