Marty Pollard

Lloyd "Marty" Pollard (born 1961) is an American musician who plays pedal steel guitar, banjo, Dobro and guitar.

Biography

He began his professional career in the mid-1970s forming Artificial Grass with talented fellow high school students Ricky Fitzhugh on guitar, Greg Hudson on bass guitar and Brad Crawford on drums. They were also billed as the Sante Fe Linemen at the Bear Creek Inn steakhouse in southwest Dallas county where they played for many Dallas notables including Dallas Cowboy football players and coaches and state and national politicos.

After a stint in the USMC he returned to musical pursuits.

Throughout the 1980s he performed with many bands on tours of Texas and surrounding states. He founded and led Hot Music with Sandee Rose (vocalist and guitarist) which was a feature attraction at the Six Flags Over Texas 25th Jubilee season in 1986. They were also active in supporting Governor Bill Clements's bid for office and played for Clements and George H. W. Bush, Tom Landry, Roger Staubach and others at political fund-raisers and victory parties.

He was a featured performer in Theater Three's production of Hume Cronyn's Foxfire as a banjoist and also a member of the house band at the reopening of Bob Wills's Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas. This period also found him performing regularly with Jerry Jeff Walker, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Johnny Rodriguez, Barbara Fairchild, and many other music business notables.

The '90s found him in Kansas performing regularly at the Burlington Jamboree with Chely Wright and other name acts as part of the house band. During this period there were a lot of recording sessions which have received much radio airplay in America and Europe.

Pollard now lives near Boulder, Colorado, and is a music instructor, studio musician, and performer working with many area bands playing everything from African trance/world beat with Bongolove to bluegrass with Redstone Bluegrass and frequently plays jazz with his wife Robyn.

Arrest

On May 16, 2008, Pollard was arrested on two counts of Sexual Assault on a Child by One in a Position of Trust, and two counts of Aggravated Incest.

Notes

External links

• Official site
• 9News article covering the arrest Retrieved July 28, 2008.