Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
US Country Label 1960 Good 'n Country — Decca 1962 Country Music Time — 1963 This World Is Not My Home — 1964 Widow Maker — 1965 Sunny Side of the Mountain — 1966 Good 'n Country Music — 1967 Big and Country Instrumentals — 1968 Tennessee: 42 1969 Free Born Man — 1970 Singing All Day — 1972 I'd Like to Be Sixteen Again ...
Eventually, he enrolled at the University of Virginia in 1949 where his love for country music expanded to folk music through fellow students, Paul Clayton and Dave Sadler. While still in college, Clifton, Clayton, and Sadler formed the Dixie Mountain Boys together and began playing professionally at small radio stations in central Virginia.
Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the "King of Country Music", Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.
Ralph Edmund Stanley (February 25, 1927 – June 23, 2016) was an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing. He began playing music in 1946, originally with his older brother Carter Stanley as part of The Stanley Brothers, and most often as the leader of his band, The Clinch Mountain Boys.
The album is composed of country classics and Gospel standards, several of them composed by Acuff, who was a profound musical influence on Jones. As Jones biographer Rich Kienzle observes, Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys "had an unforgettable dynamic: his fiddling and rough-edged, deeply emotional vocals were accompanied by a raw, traditional ...
J.D. Crowe recorded 42 studio tracks with Jimmy Martin, all of which appear in chronological order on the 5CD box-set : Jimmy Martin And Sunny Mountain Boys 1954-1974 (Bear Family BCD-15705); tracks 11–43, 73–76, 107–111) [13] [17]
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Exploring a role as producer, Skaggs produced Dolly Parton's album White Limozeen, which started her comeback in country music. Skaggs also guested on other albums. In 1995, he sang with Vince Gill on "Go Rest High on That Mountain", which later won CMA's Song of the Year and was determined by BMI to be the Most-Performed Song in 1997.