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Dad. home from artists like lightfoot iion’s best steel guitarist in 20] I for ill make you eat your words' and l and Murray. and he played on such the first time and following that up did.” said Ringwald. “And I pracr iconic songs as The Wreck of the With the 20K! award last week at ticed and practiced it until I got Edmund Fitzgerald. the annual awards ceremony held good at it. and that's What you have Ringwald went under his music in ludmonton He was named a to do because it's such a difficult alias of Peewee Charles in those member of the All Star Band for instrument to learn.” days, a nickname given to him in his work with George (‘anyon and He even moved to Texas for a 1968 with more than a touch of Wt-stem Swing Authority over the seven-month stretch to learn from irony for the self~professed six- last year. on top of the session a steel gunas master and bring foot-four string bean. 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