Noel Boggs
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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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
110 releases · 36 albums · active 1952–2020
- Performance · 154
- Other credits · 5
Studios: Universal Studios, San Francisco · Sound Recorders, San Francisco · 1750 Arch Studios · Country Music Foundation
Frequent collaborators
- Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys
- Various
- Wade Ray
- Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
- Flatt & Scruggs
- Spade Cooley
- Bob Wills
- Hal Peters And His Trio