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The group's former banjo player, Joe Dean, left in March 2012 to pursue other musical interests and would later join Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. [3] Former fiddle player Jesse Stockman left the band in early August 2011 due to a wrist injury, giving way to BJ Cherryholmes who would continue that role until September 2016. [4]
Joe Dean (April 26, 1930 − November 17, 2013) is known as "Mr. String Music" and was the voice of Southeastern Conference basketball for most of the 1970-80s. In 2012, he was elected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame , as a contributor to the game.
The first consists of primary banjo players and the second of celebrities that also play the banjo This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
William Redden (born October 13, 1956) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as a backwoods mountain boy in the 1972 film Deliverance, where he played Lonnie, a banjo-playing teenager in north Georgia, who played the noted "Dueling Banjos" with Drew Ballinger ().
One of the most respected tenor banjo players in Ireland, Enda Scahill, had just played a finger-flying, knee-bobbing jig with other well-known traditional Irish musicians at the meet-and-greet ...
Jimmy Dean, singer and TV personality, former owner of Jimmy Dean Sausage Company; John Denver, singer/songwriter of numerous hit songs throughout the 1970s including Annies song,Back Home Again, and Take Me Home, Country Roads. John Denver died in 1997. Roy Drusky, smooth-singing Opry star for 40 years; Jimmy Martin, The King of bluegrass
The Barkers proved a breeding ground for future California country rock talent, including shy, 18-year-old mandolin player Chris Hillman, with whom Leadon maintained a lifelong friendship. Augmented by banjo player (and future Flying Burrito Brother) Kenny Wertz, the Squirrel Barkers eventually asked Leadon to join the group, upon Wertz's ...
Bertie Caudill Dickens (1902–1994) was an old-time banjo player from the community of Ennice in Alleghany County, North Carolina. [1] Dickens was born in Grayson County, Virginia, but lived most of her life in Ennice.