About Lloyd Green
Lloyd Lamar Green (born October 4, 1937) is an American pedal steel guitarist and session musician. Green was a member of the country music studio musician collective known as the Nashville A-Team, and has performed on more than 5,000 recordings, for artists such as Charley Pride, The Byrds, Country Johnny Mathis,Johnny Cash, The Monkees, Don Williams, Paul McCartney, and Bob Dylan. His playing on The Byrds' 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo influenced generations of steel guitarists. Green was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1988. == Early life == Green was born on October 4, 1937 in Leaf, Mississippi, about 40 miles southeast of Hattiesburg. He and his family moved to Mobile, Alabama at the age of four, where he began to take music lessons. At age seven, he applied for lessons at the Oahu Music Company, but they did not take students under fourteen. Oahu allowed a "test lesson" for him. When they found his strong aptitude, they let him enroll. He was an exceptional student, to the extent that Oahu used him in their promotional materials and newsletters.
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