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Wood was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on August 28, 1964, and raised outside Fairview, a little country town twenty-five miles southwest of Nashville.With 160 fiddle and mandolin championships (including fifteen state championships in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama) between the years 1978 and 2001, Wood is one of the most decorated contest fiddlers in history.
"Tennessee Waltz" is a popular country music song with lyrics by Redd Stewart and music by Pee Wee King [4] written in 1946 and first released in January 1948. The song became a multimillion seller via a 1950 recording – as "The Tennessee Waltz" – by Patti Page .
Bill Hensley, Mountain Fiddler, Asheville, North Carolina. Old time (also spelled old-time or oldtime) fiddle is the style of American fiddling found in old-time music.Old time fiddle tunes are derived from European folk dance forms such as the jig, reel, breakdown, schottische, waltz, two-step, and polka.
Henry Ellis Stewart (May 27, 1923 – August 4, 2003), better known as Redd Stewart, was an American country music songwriter and recording artist who co-wrote "Tennessee Waltz" with Pee Wee King in 1948. [1]
The Tennessee Waltz → Tennessee Waltz — "Tennessee Waltz", sans "The", is the correct title. See, among many other references, an image of the sheet music and the State of Tennessee website. Shelf Skewed Talk 20:34, 13 May 2010 (UTC) The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it.
O'Connor can be seen on the cover with the white-painted fiddle that he used for competition. At the time of this album's release, O'Connor had won numerous fiddle championships, including a win in the National Old Time Fiddler's Contest Open division in 1979 and a 1975 win in the Grand Masters Contest in Nashville, Tennessee.
King and Stewart first recorded "The Tennessee Waltz" in 1948. [1] It went on to become a country music standard, due, mainly, to the immense success of Patti Page's version of the song. King had the Pee Wee King Show on WAVE-TV in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1949, with the Golden West Cowboys and announcer Bob Kay. The half-hour program was ...
Gordon Terry (October 7, 1931 – April 9, 2006) was an American bluegrass and country music fiddler and guitarist. He was a member of Merle Haggard 's backing band The Strangers . He was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame and the Fiddlers Hall of Fame.