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Hassell Teekell never learned to read music but has spent his life as one of the finest musicians to grow up in Shreveport. He paid his dues performing in local clubs, learned sound and other engineering techniques for producing music, then throughout his life played in bands fronted by some of the biggest country and western stars, such as Reba McIntire, Brooks & Dunn and others. On any stage, however, he knew to give 100 per cent of his talent to entertain a paying public: