Roy recorded with scores of artists on King Records, including Hawkshaw Hawkins. On Hawk's record of Slowpoke, he wanted Roy to play the same solo he had played on Pee Wee King's hit RCA record of Slowpoke. Roy played a very similar solo, but changed it slightly.
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Here is a You Tube video of Roy playing his signature song -- "The Tennessee Waltz" -- on Friday, August 31, 2007 on the Hawaiian Show at the International Steel Guitar Convention in St.Louis.
Accompaning Roy were L. T. Zinn on Guitar, Bonnie Slick on Ukulele, and Ray Slick on bass.
The next day, September 1, 2007, Roy was inducted into the International Steel Guitar Hall of Fame.
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Steel Guitarist formerly with Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys