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Dec. 13, 2007


The Ventures with Nokie Edwards Are Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees

As announced today via the world's press, The Ventures and their
famous, golden age lead guitarist Nokie Edwards are 2008 Inductees into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Ventures are considered by many
music historians to be the most influential instrumental combo and
instrumental guitar-driven group in recording history, and certainly
they are one of the most successful, with over 100 million albums sold
to date. Nokie Edwards is considered by many music historians to be a
key to their sound with his blistering, twangy, yet melodic lead guitar
work in such pioneering rock fields as surf, spy, space, hard rock and
psychedelia music. In recent years, he has become Grammy-Nominated with
his acclaimed work on Greenhaw Records in the fields of gospel and
country. Nokie's great Ventures' period and classic Ventures hit songs
are well-represented on Greenhaw Records albums GUITAR BAND CLASSICS and
GUITARS OVER TEXAS. Other categories of music at which Nokie has
excelled on Greenhaw Records include rockabilly, Christmas, roots and
Americana. A listing of his catalog on Greenhaw Records includes these
albums on CD: THE BEST OF NOKIE EDWARDS' ROOTS MUSIC VOL. 1 and VOL. 2;
CHRISTMAS IN GUITARLAND; A SURF N SWING-FRET N STRING CHRISTMAS;
SOUTHERN MEETS SOUL; THE GOSPEL PEOPLE LOVE REVUE; 20th CENTURY GOSPEL;
ADVENTURE IN COUNTRY SWING; TWANGING GUITARS AND SOULFUL VOICES; GOLDEN
POP INSTRUMENTALS; DEEP ELLUM BLUES; ART GREENHAW'S GUITAR FESTIVAL VOL.
1; GUITAR BAND CLASSICS; GUITARS OVER TEXAS. DVDs include the limited
editions NOKIE MEETS SMOKEY and ART GREENHAW'S GUITAR AND GOSPEL
FESTIVAL.
For secure, on-line ordering of Nokie Edwards music on Greenhaw
Records, visit www.artgreenhaw.com MERCHANDISE pages.
You can also phone 888/606-6874 in the USA, or outside the USA, phone
360/757-1362, and request Nokie Edwards music on Artgreenhaw.com
Other artists on Greenhaw Records which are among the world's
greatest are The Light Crust Doughboys, The Jordanaires, Ann-Margret,
Engelbert Humperdinck (on Hip-O/Greenhaw Records), James Blackwood,
Larry Ford, Larry T-Byrd Gordon, Tom Brumley and more. Greenhaw Records'
chief Art Greenhaw produced (with The Ventures) and performed on The
Ventures latest album, ROCKY!, on Toshiba EMI Japan Records.