Roy Nichols
🇺🇸 Chandler, AZ
- Born
October 21, 1932
- Died
July 3, 2001
Roy Ernest Nichols was an American country music guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for Merle Haggard's band The Strangers for more than two decades. He was known for his guitar technique, a mix of fingerpicking and pedal steel-like bends, usually played on a Fender Telecaster electric guitar. Nichols is considered one of the founders of the country music subgenre the "Bakersfield Sound", which includes such notable country artists as Haggard, Buck Owens, and Don Rich.
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