Who is the oldest steelplayer still playing in USA?

[John Davis]

I ask as we have in the UK a gent who is 101 years young and plays a LeGrande he has played from music all his life but not tab.

[Michael Sawyer]

Mr Clyde Mattocks,86,was on stage this weekend with his group, the legndary Super Grit Cowboy Band,at the NC State fair.Sounds as good if not better than he did 40 years ago.

[Dave Zirbel]

In California we have Bobby Black I think at 90.

[John Davis]

Thanks for the input guys, getting close but no cigar.....

I wonder in the rest of the world if there is anyone older playing?
Bernard still has long vision but cannot see much close up, he is not computer or smart phone savvy but quite lucid in conversation and still loves his steel.

[Ben Lawson]

Fred Thompson is 92. Still plays twice a week.

[Don Crowl]

I don't know if Bobby koefer is still playing. I think he's about 95.

[George Biner]

Norm Hamlet is 88, he was touring regularly not long ago with piano player Mario Carboni.

[Dale Rottacker]

Lets not forget our friend Charles Tilley who's 91 ...
and my friend Louis Armentaro from Montana playing here when he was 95, if memory serves he passed a couple years later ... he was still playing out and loving his Mullen

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[John De Maille]

At 74, sometimes I FEEL like it's me. All the moving, setting up and breaking down and loading has aged me a lot in the last several years. I really need a dedicated roadie!

[Landon Jarrel]

Lets not forget our friend Charles Tilley who's 91 ...
and my friend Louis Armentaro from Montana playing here when he was 95, if memory serves he passed a couple years later ... he was still playing out and loving his Mullen

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Louis Armentaro was a friend of mine too and he was a character and a gentleman - I indeed thought of him when reading this thread.

[Herb Steiner]

I will turn 76 next week, and I think I'm the oldest active steel player... that is, still gigging... in the 5-county greater Austin TX metroplex (John Russell is two months younger than I)

I know that Denny Mathis is about 10 years older than me. But he's from San Antonio. Rick Price and Roger Edgington are also older and both from San Antonio as well.

[John Davis]

Well,topic has run for a while and no one else has come close so, unless you know different I would say that.
Bernard Mills from Litchfield Midlands UK at 101 years old is the oldest living and playing steel player.
IN THE WORLD. 5/11/2023

[Roger Rettig]

I can tell you which one looks the oldest.

[Herb Steiner]

I can tell you which one looks the oldest.

The morning after a particularly rough night, I stood in front of the bathroom mirror totally dismayed.

"Waaah! I look so old, so worn out, so gray, so fat... I need a compliment!! "

"Well, your eyesight is perfect" my wife quickly replied.

[Roger Rettig]

[Herb Steiner]

Well,topic has run for a while and no one else has come close so, unless you know different I would say that.
Bernard Mills from Litchfield Midlands UK at 101 years old is the oldest living and playing steel player.
IN THE WORLD. 5/11/2023

I'll wager he uses a 2 pc. case set.

[Jeff Garden]

Age is just a number - and in this case it looks like you can win valuable prizes!

[David Weisenthal]

Haha, Herb that last one cracked me up.

[Mark Greenway]

David Wright

[Doug Jones]

Perhaps Fred "Tommy" Thompson, 1999 Maine Country Music Hall of Fame inductee.
I think he's full in time Florida, North of Tampa area. He's 92 and I still call him "Mr Smooth"

[Don Ricketson]

I don't win no cigar but I'll be 88 in two months. Still playing a couple jobs a month. Been playing steady the last 10 or so years in the house band at Eddie Shells Cadillac Dance hall in marble Falls. Played the Llano Opry 15 years before that and...oh well lots of gigs since about 1949. Started when I was 13.