User:Randydorman

Randy Dorman a native Texan is the son of Bruce and Hazel Dorman.I began playing guitar at the age of 9 years old. I could have started two years earlier, my parents gave me a choice between a Roy Rogers guitar and a Superman suit... well I decided to fly around the house.

My first electric guitar was a Kay that my parents bought me from a pawn-shop for $40.00. It wasn't great but it was all mine and I loved it. During my high school years I got a Gibson ES-335. That guitar played like melted butter! It carried me through several local groups and a year at North Texas State University.

I then had the great fortune of meeting a true gentleman by the name of Roy Clark who invited my family to Nashville to watch them record Hee Haw. I liked Nashville so much I stayed and got a gig with a band called the Brass Monkey. A few years and bands later I did a session that Kenny Rogers was producing and shortly there after was hired. That was in September of 1977.

Since that time I've had the privilege of performing behind such greats as:

Ray Charles Smokey Robinson Garth Brooks Dolly Parton Willie Nelson Al Hirt Reba Travis Tritt Trisha Yearwood Linda Davis The Oakridge Boys Michael McDonald Kenny Loggins Lisa Stewart Kim Carnes The Katinas Patty Loveless Mark Chesnut 4 Runner Bill Medley Gallagher Lionel Richie Mel Tillis Gladys Knight The Forester Sisters George Burns Sheena Easton Susie Boggus T. Graham Brown Little Texas The Smothers Brothers Colin Raye Holly Dunn Faith Hill Phil Vassar Billy Dean Rebbeca Lynn Howard and many more...