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Pages in category "Bluegrass musicians from North Carolina" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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Each band on this list either has published sources — such as a news reports, magazine articles, or books — verifying it is a performing or recording bluegrass band and meeting Wikipedia's notability criteria for bands, or a Wikipedia article confirming its notability. For individual musicians, see the List of bluegrass musicians.
This is an alphabetical list of bluegrass musicians. For bands, see the List of bluegrass bands
Franklin "Amos" Garren was born in North Carolina on May 10, 1914. [2] He was one of the first bluegrass "bass players." Bill Monroe selected Amos Garren to become his bass player after the band moved to Greenville, South Carolina. Amos Garren was hired in 1942, as Bill Monroe, known now as the "father of bluegrass music", was assembling his band.
Pruett was born on 19 August 1951, and grew up in the Osborne Farm area of Haywood County, North Carolina. [1] [2] He graduated from Western Carolina University with a B.S. in Geology. At 15, his musical career started at Ghost Town, a theme park in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, where he played banjo and bass for park visitors. [3]
McCoury was born into a musical family in Bakersville, North Carolina, a small mountain community near Asheville, North Carolina, and Johnson City, Tennessee. His mother, Hazel, sang and played the organ, piano, and harmonica, while G. C., an older brother, taught Del to play the guitar and introduced him to bluegrass musicians such as Bill ...
Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, [3] Don Reno grew up on a farm in Haywood County, North Carolina. He began learning acoustic guitar at the age of five after borrowing a neighbor's guitar, and not long after began learning banjo. In 1939, the 13-year-old Reno joined the Morris Brothers in performing at a local radio station. [4]