Performance
Noel Boggs
Oklahoma City, United States
Noel Boggs is credited on 67 releases across 36 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1952–2007 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
67
Pressings credited
36
Albums
6
Decades active
5
In collections
Biography
Noel Edwin Boggs (November 13, 1917 – August 31, 1974) was an American musician who was a virtuoso on the electric steel guitar, widely regarded as a pioneer of the lap steel. A central figure in popularizing the genre of Western swing, he helped elevate the instrument from its roots in Hawaiian music to a prominent role in American popular music. During the 1940s and 1950s, Boggs performed and recorded with many of influential artists, including Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (1944–1945) and Spade Cooley's dance band. His collaboration with Wills helped establish the role of the steel guitar in country music. He performed on more than 2,000 recordings, including several of Wills’ most enduring hits, such as “Roly Poly” and “Stay a Little Longer,” both of which became Western swing standards. Boggs was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1981.
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Credited work
67 releases · 36 albums · active 1952–2007
- Performance · 84
Studios: Millbrook Studios · 23 Club, Brisbane · P.D. Recorders
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys
- Various
- Wade Ray
- Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
- Spade Cooley
- Flatt & Scruggs
- Jimmie Rivers And The Cherokees
- Hal Peters And His Trio
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