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Overlapping with his first two MCA albums, RCA promoted two compilations of material. The first of these was a Greatest Hits album, issued in 1985. [26] The following year, RCA compiled eight previously-unreleased songs into an album titled Down in Tennessee. [19]
Don Reno Bluegrass , Country; Tony Rice Bluegrass , acoustic; Don Rich; Arlen Roth; Eldon Shamblin Western Swing, Country; Ricky Skaggs; Hank Snow Country; Merle Travis Country; Travis Tritt Country; Keith Urban; Steve Wariner; Doc Watson Bluegrass , Traditional Country; Speedy West Pedal Steel; Clarence White Bluegrass, Country, Country rock ...
John Hughey was born December 27, 1933, in Elaine, Arkansas.He began playing guitar at age nine, when his parents bought him an acoustic guitar from Sears. [1] In the seventh grade, he befriended a classmate named Harold Jenkins, who would later become a prominent country singer under his stage name Conway Twitty. [1]
Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), also known as "Mister Guitar" and "the Country Gentleman", was an American musician who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, helped create the Nashville sound, the country music style which expanded its appeal to adult pop music fans. He was primarily a guitarist, but he also played ...
Clark (right) as "Myrtle Halsey" on The Beverly Hillbillies, 1968. Rising country music star Jimmy Dean asked Clark to join his band, the Texas Wildcats, in 1954. [14] Clark was the lead guitarist, [2] and made appearances on Dean's "Town and Country Time" program on WARL-AM and on WMAL-TV (after the show moved to television from radio in 1955).
Brown appeared in the music video for "Honky Tonk Song" by George Jones in 1996 and also won the CMA Country Music Video of the Year award that year for his video, "My Wife Thinks You're Dead", which featured 6-foot-7-inch Gwendolyn Gillingham. [7] Brown played a cameo part in "Drive", the second episode of season six of The X-Files.
Redd Volkaert (born 1958) is a Canadian guitarist and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitar players in the modern era and is "among the country’s top Telecaster guitar slingers” [1] particularly in the genres of western swing and honky tonk.
James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing, [1] [2] [3] he was known widely as the King of Western Swing (although Spade Cooley self-promoted the moniker "King of Western Swing" from 1942 to 1969).