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Durwood Haddock - 92% match to Ernie Ashworth

16 August 1934, Lamasco, Fanning County, Texas, USA. He lived in various parts of Texas as a child and could play fiddle and guitar in his mid-teens. He first worked as a disc jockey but was fired for playing ‘White Christmas’ in July. He played countless small honky tonks and clubs in Oklahoma and Texas for several years. In 1954, he recorded for Four Star and beg Read more

Bill Phillips - 81% match to Ernie Ashworth

William Clarence Phillips, 28 January 1936, Canton, North Carolina, USA. Phillips grew up in an area steeped in country music and learned guitar and began singing before leaving high school to work as an upholsterer. In 1955, he joined theOld Southern Jamboree on WMIL Miami and sang at local clubs, before moving to Nashville in 1957. He joined Cedarwood Publishing as a songw Read more

Jann Browne - 71% match to Ernie Ashworth

14 March 1954, Anderson, Indiana, USA. Browne was a featured vocalist with Asleep At The Wheel between 1981 and 1983. She then developed a solo career in California and married songwriter Roger Stebner in 1985. Despite guest musicians such as Duane Eddy, Emmylou Harris, Albert Lee and Wanda Jackson, her albums failed to sell. She has had minor US country hits with ‘You Read more

Freddy Weller - 64% match to Ernie Ashworth

Wilton Frederick Weller, 9 September 1947, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Weller played guitar and sang at school and was in a group, the Believers, with Joe South. One of his first sessions was for Billy Joe Royal’s 1965 hit single, ‘Down In The Boondocks’. Two years later Weller replaced the lead guitarist in the successful pop band Paul Revere And The Raiders. Duri Read more

Royal Wade Kimes - 63% match to Ernie Ashworth

Tommy Cash - 51% match to Ernie Ashworth

5 April 1940, Dyess, Arkansas, USA. Cash is the younger brother of Johnny Cash. He originally intended to be a basketball player. In the US armed forces in Germany, he presented AFN radio’s Stickbuddy Jamboree. Back in the USA, he worked in radio, managed his brother’s music publishing company and then recorded his first single for Musicor, ‘That’s Where Read more

Justin Tubb - 41% match to Ernie Ashworth

Justin Wayne Tubb, 20 August 1935, San Antonio, Texas, USA, d. 24 January 1998, Nashville, Texas, USA. The eldest son of country music legend Ernest Tubb, he attended Castle Heights Military School, Lebanon, from 1944-48. He was naturally attracted to his father’s music and when school holidays permitted, he toured with his father and regularly appeared on his WSM radio Read more

Danni Leigh - 38% match to Ernie Ashworth

9 February 1970, Strasburg, Virginia, USA. Dubbed ‘the female Dwight Yoakam’ by some country music writers, Danni Leigh rose to prominence after recording a demo album to pitch for a recording contract in Nashville. It was produced by Michael Knox, son of 50s rockabilly artist Buddy Knox, whom she met while waiting tables at Nashville’s Bluebird Café. A Read more

James Hand - 36% match to Ernie Ashworth

Larry Gatlin - 36% match to Ernie Ashworth

Mila Mason - 30% match to Ernie Ashworth

c. 1974, Dawson Springs, Kentucky, USA. As a child, Mason was surrounded by a showbusiness atmosphere; her mother, Diane Mason, performed in Las Vegas and elsewhere as a singer. She began writing songs while still very young. At the age of 15 she occasionally performed at her mother’s shows, and two years later she moved to Nashville, Tennessee. There, she sang demos a Read more

Billy Yates - 29% match to Ernie Ashworth

13 March 1963, Doniphan, Missouri, USA. Country singer-songwriter Yates was raised on a small farm in rural Missouri, just across the border from Arkansas. As a child he used to sing with his family on short radio broadcasts on KDFN-AM in Doniphan, and occasionally performed at country fairs. After graduating from high school he began performing at local music theatres, and Read more

Isla Grant - 25% match to Ernie Ashworth

Ricky Lynn Gregg - 24% match to Ernie Ashworth

22 August 1961, Longview, Texas, USA. The 90s country singer/guitarist Ricky Lynn Gregg is of Native American descent. He formed two rock groups, the Ricky Lynn Project and Head East, and with them opened for Huey Lewis And The News and Heart. He then switched direction to honky tonk country and formed the band Cherokee Thunder with whom he played clubs in Dallas. He reached Read more

Tommy Overstreet - 23% match to Ernie Ashworth

Thomas Cary Overstreet, 10 September 1937, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. Overstreet grew up in Houston, the home town of his uncle, the 30s pop singer Gene Austin, and learned to play the guitar at the age of 14. Here he first appeared on KTHT radio and in a local production ofHit The Road, but after completing high school, he moved to Abilene. During 1956-57, he studied rad Read more