Lloyd Maines - Eagle Number 65 (2022)

“During 50 years of recording, I’ve either produced or played on around 5000 projects, and I am very grateful for that opportunity. I started playing guitar at the age of 13 from a Mel Bay chord book. I started playing pedal steel at age 17. Steel is my main instrument but over the years, because of needing something different on recordings, I learned to play several other instruments.

During year two of the Covid pandemic, I decided to produce an album on myself. It was recorded in my little, funky man cave studio at our house in Austin. Because I have four very talented grandkids, they are included on the album. These 12 songs are the result of our family adventure. The name of the album is Eagle Number 65.

I went to Roosevelt School grades 1 through 12. Roosevelt was located in a cotton field, 8 miles East of Lubbock and 4 miles West of Acuff. There were 31 seniors in my graduating class. I started playing full contact football in the 7th grade and knew nothing about sports. I didn’t even know what a jock strap was for ... Hello! I just knew that I wanted to play on the team. I started wearing glasses in the 4th grade but I didn’t want to wear my glasses while wearing my helmet, so I didn’t. I played football for 6 years and enjoyed it all, but I never saw the scoreboard. I had to ask my teammates how much time was left, what down it was, etc., and I never had to ask about the score because we were usually losing. Playing football helped to shape my life. My coaches taught me to never give up and that whining was not allowed. I was number 65 and we were the Roosevelt Eagles.”