![]() “My mom had taped every single television appearance I had done starting in 1983. In the preparation for the ceremony, though, Cindy was able to take a look back. “He was one of the great pedal steel sounds heard on the landmark Sweetheart of the Rodeo (by The Byrds) record…It was such an inspiration for a lot of us, I know it was for me, by the way it was country music but it wasn’t the country music like my dad was listening to on AM radio…so I met Lloyd Green, it was such a thrill to meet him….”Īnd Cindy found herself onstage at the Hall’s Ford Theater, with a moderator, Michael McCall, in front of “a giant screen that shows a montage of film clips and photographs from the early toddler years, on up…he asked me ‘how does this feel, to be looking at your life,’ and I said, I never really thought about it, I’m just always on that hamster wheel of work…and because you’re a side musician you’re on tour, you might be working with someone for a year, you might be working with someone for one night, you’re just going and going, and you don’t really have time to sit there and go, well, I did this and I did that, you don’t have time.” “The first steel guitar player was Lloyd Green, who has done so many sessions over the years, I can’t even begin to tell you whose, thousands…” says Cindy. The Nashville Cats program, with a permanent display, began at the Hall of Fame in 2006. In exhibits, publications, and educational programs, the museum explores the cultural importance and enduring beauty of the art form.” It was chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville says it “collects, preserves, and interprets country music and its history for the education and entertainment of diverse audiences. ![]() The first woman Nashville Cat, is Andrea Zonn, the stunning fiddler who plays with James Taylor’s All Star Band. Seems as if the program has a bit of catching up to do. It honors the side people, which is wonderful.” It includes people like James Burton, Buddy Spicher, Duane Eddy, Charlie McCoy, Leon Rhodes, Jim Horn, Weldon Myrick, Norbert Putnam…Ĭindy, it turns out, is only the second woman to be so honored as a Nashville Cat. “As they put it,” says Cindy, “the sometimes nameless, faceless people that are creating the music behind the artist. They said, it doesn’t matter…”Īnd so, on May 14, 2022, in a ceremony in one of the Hall’s auditoriums, this most consummate artist of almost all things slide guitar has to offer, including Dobro, lap steel guitar, non-pedal steel guitar, Weissenborns, took her place in the Pantheon of Nashville Cats (yes, so named after the John Sebastian penned, Lovin’ Spoonful song) alongside more than 40 of the finest side players and backup singers Country Music has offered the world. “But, I said, I only lived in Nashville for six months, in 1992. “I was thrilled, of course,” says the five-time Grammy award winner, a Woodstock native who by her own admission has played “thousands” of gigs. ![]() Two years ago, Cindy Cashdollar was contacted by the Country Music Hall of Fame, saying that they’d like to honor her as one of the Nashville Cats, the most elite group of side musicians in the business. Cindy Cashdollar at Royal Albert Hall in London.
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