Roy Rogers
Born in Cincinnati in 1911 with the real name of Leonard Slye. he was raised on a farm in Duck run near Portsmouth, Southern Ohio.
He loved to ride horses and play the guitar he also loved to watch Tom Mix movies in fact he loved any cowboy movie. During the late 1920's he learned cowboy music and became a caller at the local square dances.
1930 saw him hitching his way to California where he became a peach picker in Tulare, however it wasn't long before he was working has a musician with a quintet called the Rocky Mountaineers. During this time he actually played with anyone who would let him and these bands included Uncle Tom Murray's Hollywood Hillbillies. the O Bar O Cowboys and the Texas Outlaws. In 1934 he established the Pioneer Trio with Bob Nolan and Tim Spencer later they were to call themselves the sons of the poineers when the Farr Brothers Hugh and Karl Joined the band.
