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This album, a homegrown salute to California country music guitar titan Roy Nichols, is essentially a family affair that features contributions from the near and dear to distant cousins. Not blood related family, of course, but rather a gathering of extended, affectionate musical tribe-members. Assembled and overseen by Los Angeles hard country belter Kathy Robertson, with inspiration and guidance provided by none other than the great Bonnie Owens, award-winning veteran thrush who's worked many a season with Merle Haggard & The Strangers (and Bonnie can also lay claim to the title of being the only woman in history who has been married to two members of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Haggard and Buck Owens).

This set not only features Robertson's authoritative vocals (honed over
the course of innumerable nights in Low Angeles and Bakersfield, where
she often worked with Red Simpson), it also showcases many of Bonnie's
previously unheard songs, her superlative vocals and contributions from
the likes of the Strangers Joe Manuel, former Desert Rose Band/Bellamy
Brothers guitarist Jeff Ross, esteemed guitarmen Albert Lee and Jerry
Donhue, Rosie Flores and many others, all united under a common banner:
reverence and respect for the legendary Roy Nichols. Nichols, after all, has set the entire tone for California country music since his 1948 start at age 16, with the Maddox Brothers & Rose; after a two year stint recording and touring with the great Lefty Frizzell, he returned to the San Joaquin and by 1955 was a regular on Bakersfield's daily Herb Henson TV show ( where he

                                                                          -Jonny Whiteside
                                                                            Burbank, California
                                                                            Spring 1997.

Musicians:
Don Heffington, drums (2-7, 9-13, 15)
Paul Marshall, bass (2-7, 9-13, 15)
Doug Livingston, steel guitar (1-6, 9-10, 13, 15)
Jerry Donahue, guitar (1-2, 4, 6, 9-10, 13-14)
Albert Lee, guitar (3, 5, 11-12, 15)
Skip Edwards, piano, accordion, B-3 organ (2, 4, 6-7, 9-13)
James Intveld, acoustic guitar, vocals (4, 6, 13) 
Joe Manuel, guitar (5, 15) vocals (3)  David Vaught, bass (8, 14)
Tommy Spurlock, guitar (8, 14)         Jim Goodall, drums (8, 14)   
Jeff Ross, guitar (11)                        Brian Hofeldt, guitar, vocals (1) 
Vic Gerrard, bass (1)                        Terry Kirkendall, Drums (1)
Chris Gaffney, piano, vocals, (8)        Bonnie Owens, vocals (15)
Rosie Flores, vocals (11-12)              Annie Harvey, vocals (10)
Kathy Robertson, vocals (1-15)