Johnny Sibert

Johnny Sibert (b. Indianapolis, November 24, 1933 - Smyrna, Tennessee, December 21, 2013) – Steel guitar player. The steel guitar playing of Indianapolis native Johnny Sibert figured prominently in the success Carl Smith’s band called the Tunesmiths, whose popularity peeked in the mid to late 1950s. In addition to his two-decade stretch with the Tunesmiths, Sibert was also sideman to Lefty Frizzell, Little Jimmy Dickens, Gene Autry, the Everly Brothers, and Johnny Bond. A pioneering steel guitarist of the 1950s and 1960s, Sibert was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1998.