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It is a wonderful and important thing that Shintaro is honoring and keeping alive traditional country music and traditional steel guitar.
He does it with grace and adds his own personal touch, which is both emotional and inventive.
A rewarding listen!
Kerry Marx(Music Director/Grand Ole Opry)

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  • Shintaro Ishida

    Started playing American country music in high school and played pedal steel guitar in collage band and U.S. Air Force soldier band The Cimarrons . After graduated from college , he joined Yoshio Ohno's Country Mates and Jimmy Tokita's Mountain Play Boys . In 1968 He organized his own band The Citylites and backing up for many American country singers such as Jinnie Sheely ,Tanya Tucker , Chrley Pride etc. and also Japanese star singers .Toured to U.S.S.R in 1980 and 1984 as a member of Terry Terauchi and his Blue Jeans . in 1982 played at TV Tokyo music programme with steel guitar legend Mr. Buddy Emmons , and 1987 , paticipated In International Steel Guitar Convention in St. Louis Missouri U.S.A. . Now he plays with his daughter Miya who is a country singer with his new Citylites band and teach steel guitar to japanese steel fans .

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