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Rose Lee Maphis (born Doris Helen Schetrompf; December 29, 1922 – October 26, 2021) was an American country singer and musician. She performed as a harmony singer and rhythm guitarist as a duo with her husband Joe Maphis. They were pioneers of the Bakersfield sound that developed in the mid-1950s. [1]
Otis Wilson "Joe" Maphis [1] (/ ˈ m eɪ f ɪ s / MAY-fis; May 12, 1921 – June 27, 1986), [2] was an American country music guitarist. He married singer Rose Lee Maphis in 1953 and they performed together. One of the flashiest country guitarists of the 1950s and 1960s, Joe Maphis was known as "The King of the Strings". [3]
It was originally recorded in December 1952 by the bluegrass duo Flatt & Scruggs, and later released by Joe & Rose Lee Maphis in 1953 as a single. Joe Maphis said he started the song after moving from barn dance shows in Virginia and Chicago to playing in a honky-tonk in Bakersfield, California, in a band that included Buck Owens on back-up ...
The 10-piece Town Hall Party band featured Joe Maphis, Merle Travis, superb steel guitarist Marian Hall, Billy Hill and Fiddlin' Kate on violins, PeeWee Adams on drums, Jimmy Pruitt on piano, and other excellent musicians who created a Town Hall Party sound also heard on many country sessions produced by Columbia Records in Hollywood in the ...
Joe Maphis (1984 "Legends") Rose Maphis (1984 "Legends") Damian "Junior Gong" Marley (2007) [6] Jimmy Martin (1990 "Will The Circle Be Unbroken") Steve Martin (2010 with Sarah Jarosz and Steep Canyon Rangers) Will T. Massey (1992) Masters of Bluegrass (1991) Kathy Mattea (1987, 1990, 1993) Dave Matthews (2000 with Emmylou Harris) Dave Matthews ...
A six-pack of media notes on a Tuesday:
Joe Lala is playing the tempo on a box, Bryon Berline is playing fiddle, and Chris Hillman is playing mandolin. ... Joe Maphis, Max Fidler, Rose Lee Maphis:
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