Roy Lee Centers
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CENTERS, ROY LEE (1944-1974) American bluegrass guitarist, banjo player, singer and composer, born November 8, 1944 in Jackson, Kentucky and shot & killed May 5, 1974 in Breathitt County, Kentucky. Influenced by the Stanley Brothers’ sound, Roy Lee Centers ( went by middle name in the Lee Brothers) could sing almost like Carter and play banjo in Ralph’s style. Originally from Kentucky, he came to Dayton and played in the East Side bars with Fred Spencer and Junior and Liz McIntyre as the Easterners. He and Spencer recorded on Jalyn with Jack Lynch as Jack Lynch and the Lee Brothers, in addition to backing up other bluegrass artists on Jalyn. In 1970, Ralph Stanley hired him as his lead singer, but the dream was cut short by Roy Lee’s murder four years later in Jackson, Kentucky.