Nole Floyd Nokie Edwards (May 9, 1935 – March 12, 2018) was an American musician and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was primarily a guitarist, best known for his work with The Vtures,
And was known in Japan as the 'King of Guitars'. Edwards was also an actor, who appeared briefly on Deadwood, an American Western drama television series.
Edwards came from a family of accomplished musicians, so that by age five he began playing a variety of string instrumts, including the steel guitar, banjo, mandolin, violin, and bass. His family relocated from Oklahoma to Puyallup, Washington.
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During Edwards' late te years he joined the United States Army Reserve. After traveling to Texas and California for training, he returned home and began playing regularly for pay in numerous country bands in the area.
In January 1958, country songwriter and guitarist Buck Ows relocated from California to Tacoma, Washington, as the owner of radio station KAYE. Prior to the formation of The Buckaroos with Don Rich, Edwards played guitar with Ows in the new band he formed in the area, and also played in the house band of television station KTNT, located in the same building as KAYE. In 1960 Edwards recorded a single, Night Run b/w Scratch, on Blue Horizon Records with a band called The Marksm.
The Vtures, an instrumtal musical quartet, were founded in Tacoma, Washington, in 1958. Original members included Don Wilson on rhythm guitar, Bob Bogle on lead guitar (who later became the bass player), and drummer George Babbitt, who wt on to become a 4-star geral in the U.S. Air Force. Wh Babbitt left, Howie Johnson took his place and was later replaced by Mel Taylor. Edwards met Wilson and Bogle wh they performed on KTNT. Edwards originally played bass for The Vtures, but he took over the lead guitar position from Bogle.
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The Vtures released a series of best-selling albums throughout the 1960s, and Edwards left towards the d of this period in 1968. He returned full-time as the Vtures' lead guitarist in 1972 and stayed with the band until 1984. In subsequt years, he would occasionally reunite with the band, and starting in the early 2000s, he once again toured with The Vtures until 2012. During his last stint with the Vtures, Edwards primarily played during the annual winter Japan tour, along with several dates in the United States.
In 1971, Edwards began a solo career with the release of Nokie!. While he released an album each year through 1974, his solo attempt was unsuccessful in America, and he suspded his solo efforts to conctrate on further recordings with the Vtures. Upon leaving the Vtures a second time in 1984, Edwards pursued a music career in Nashville, Tnessee. He played lead guitar for Lefty Frizzell, on what would become Frizzell's final recording sessions. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, he was involved with numerous country-influced recording projects and relaunched his solo career with the release of several albums starting in 1988.
Edwards performed occasionally in the United States as both a soloist and member of various bands, including AdVture, Art Grehaw, and Texas Western swing outfit The Light Crust Doughboys.
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The fruitful and critically acclaimed collaboration of Edwards and artist-producer Grehaw, resulted in a number of albums in several music gres including Edwards' two nominations for Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album of the Year, album titles 20th Ctury Gospel (2005) and Southern Meets Soul (2006).
AllMusic noted about the 20th Ctury Gospel album that the former Vtures member Nokie Edwards guests on several tracks (Ode to Joy, The Great Speckled Bird) and his sound has never be twangier.
In July 2010, Deke Dickerson announced on his Facebook page that he was currtly working on a new studio album with Nokie Edwards. Dickerson and his band backed Edwards for several shows, including Deke's yearly Guitar Geek Festival held in Anaheim, California.
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In 2008, Edwards was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, along with The Vtures. The award was prested by John Fogerty. The band performed their biggest hits, Walk Don't Run and Hawaii Five-0, augmted on the latter by Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame musical director Paul Shaffer and his band.
After accepting an offer to pursue an acting career, Edwards landed a role on Deadwood, an American Western drama television series. Edwards played the mysterious frid of Wild Bill Hickok and a local citiz, who serves as a bridge betwe the villains and heroes of the show. During production, Edwards temporarily relocated to Santa Clarita, California and lived on the set's location with his wife Judy.
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Edwards had a long association with Mosrite. In 1963, Edwards introduced the other members of the Vtures to Semie Moseley, which led to a five-year association betwe Mosrite and the band. During this time, Edwards and the band used and popularized the Vtures Model Mosrite guitars. Several notable features of the Vtures Model include hot single-pole pickups, a light-touch tremolo, zero fret, a sloped-back tilt headstock, and a German carve body.
In the mid-1980s, Edwards rekindled his relationship with Moseley, and Moseley designed the Mosrite Nokie Model, an update of the Vtures Model. A custom Anniversary version of the Nokie Model came with a metallic blue finish and white accts.
Edwards played Fder Telecasters and Jazzmasters during the 1950s and early 1960s, before switching to Mosrite guitars. For solo projects and with the Vtures, he also toured and recorded with Telecasters at various times during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
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In 1996, Fder released the Nokie Edwards Custom Signature model Telecaster, which was designed by Edwards. The limited-edition guitar featured gold hardware, an ebony fingerboard, sloped-back tilted headstock, a zero fret, sealed tuners, and Seymour Duncan humbucker pickups with split coils.
Edwards designed and rectly sold his own custom guitar, the HitchHiker, a hybrid of the best elemts of the Fder Telecaster and Mosrite guitars. The HitchHiker features a sloped-back tilt headstock, a neck-through-body with swamp ash and quilted maple, zero fret, gold control plates, Seymour Duncan humbuckers with split coils, and an ebony fingerboard. Its bridge works on a slide scale invted by Edwards. The HitchHiker can simulate an acoustic guitar and provides 15 differt sound selections. The body design is esstially the original Mosrite body, which Edwards preferred. The hybrid guitars are being crafted in New River, Arizona.
Edwards designed the Nokie Edwards Dual Blade Humbucker Pickup. Manufactured and sold by Seymour Duncan, it produces tones similar to Nokie's Telecaster and HitchHiker guitar models.In this May 27, 2007, file photo, Dick Dale, known as The King of the Surf Guitar, performs at B.B. King Blues Club in New York. The man who earned the title King of the Surf Guitar has died at age 81. Dick Dale played blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals in the early 1960s on songs like Miserlou and Let's Go Trippin. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)AP
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“I’ve been performing since 1955 . . . and I’m going to keep performing until I die because I’m not hoping to die in some rocking chair with a big ol’ beer belly, ’’ he said in an interview with me for a 2014 show at the Grog Shop, a frequent stop on his never-ending tours.
“I’ll die onstage with a big ol’ explosion of body parts, ’’ Dale said in that call to his California home that July.
That grisly prediction, uttered in jest, fortunately did not come true. Instead it was a collection of ailments that most likely claimed the life of the 81-year-old creator of the “surf guitar sound” on Sunday. Though no official cause of death was listed, the innovative guitarist had been battling ill health for the last couple of decades.
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“I’ve been dealing with cancer for the last 13 years, then with diabetes, and I’m in renal failure as we speak, ’’ he said in that interview.
Dale, whose real name was Richard Anthony Monsour, never stopped touring, either. With no insurance – something that’s the case for a lot of musicians – he had to keep working to keep up with his medical bills.
Kathy Blackman, who owns and operates the Grog Shop, and before that booked shows at the old Peabody’s, has been working Dale for years.
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“I’ve been doing shows with him since the old Grog days, ’’ Blackman said in a call from her office at the Heights club. “He always puts on phenomenal shows. It always impressed me that he would stay (after the shows). He sat and talked and signed every single person’s stuff.’’
Dale had played the Grog Shop in August of 2016, 2017 and 2018, and was scheduled to return to the venue on Saturday, Aug. 10.
“He’s very particular, ’’ she said of Dale’s professional style. “He liked things his way. I think he was always good to the sound guys, but he was particular and demanding to
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