Album Notes

Gene started playing the steel-guitar because most of the musicians he knew played a standard guitar or a fiddle and he wanted to learn something different. After graduation from high-school his first full-time job was playing steel guitar for the "Rogers Twins and the Prairie Sons" western-swing band in Amarillo, Texas.

Gene later joined the U.S. Army to fulfill his military obligation. While in the Army he met a singer/guitar player named Harold Jenkins and they established a band named "The Cimmarons" and performed together for two years on the military club circuit in the Tokyo/Yokohama area of Japan. After the Army Gene also played steel-guitar in Harold Jenkin's band "The Lonely Blueboys" after he had changed his name to Conway Twitty.

Gene toured with the Merl Lindsay Ozark Jubilee Band; was a staff musician on the Henson Cargill TV Show; and played steel guitar with many other country artists during his career.

Gene had never recorded his own music until recently and this CD is his second release. It includes three of Gene's original songs, "Just Pedaling", "Mama's Baby Boy", and "Easy Does It". His first album, "JUST FOR ME", was recorded in 2002.

Visit Gene's website for more information. He can be contacted by e-mail from his guestbook.