Joe Maphis
- 100% match to Jimmy Bryant
Otis Wilson Maphis, 12 May 1921, near Suffolk, Virginia, USA, d. 27 June 1986, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. His father taught him to play the fiddle as a child and he was performing at local dances by the age of 10. By the time he was 16, Maphis was a featured musician on WBRA Richmond, where he also played guitar, mandolin and bass. During the 40s, he starred on several top c
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Bobby Van (7 December 1931; mandolin, vocals) and Sonny (b. 29 October 1937, both at Hyden, Kentucky, USA; banjo, vocals) formed this talented bluegrass duo. Bobby had played with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers in 1949 and in 1951, they recorded as a duo with Jimmy Martin. During Bobby’s military service in 1952, Sonny, though barely 15 years old, was playing and appearing
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Johnny Bush
- 17% match to Jimmy Bryant
John Bush Shinn III, 17 February 1935, Houston, Texas, USA. Bush sang and played guitar as an adolescent. He moved to San Antonio, Texas, in 1962 and was resident at the Texas Star Inn. He became a drummer and worked with Willie Nelson. Nelson, and then Bush, moved to Ray Price’s band but Bush had no luck in developing a solo career. He eventually became the leader of W
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Bud Isaacs
- 14% match to Jimmy Bryant
26 March 1928, Bedford, Indiana, USA. Isaacs was playing steel guitar professionally at the age of 16 and after playing on some local stations, he relocated to Nashville. He began to play on the Grand Ole Opry in 1951 with Eddie Hill, later joining Little Jimmy Dickens. In 1953, he was responsible for the addition of foot and knee pedals to a steel guitar. By careful footwor
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Kohala
- 14% match to Jimmy Bryant
Roy Clark
- 13% match to Jimmy Bryant
Roy Linwood Clark, 15 April 1933, Meherrin, Virginia, USA. When he was 11, the family moved to Washington DC after his father, a competent musician who played guitar, banjo and fiddle, progressed from being a cotton picker to become a computer programmer, and augmented his pay for the government job by playing at local dances (his mother also played piano). Clark played banj
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Paul Siebel
- 11% match to Jimmy Bryant
1937, Buffalo, New York, USA. For many years Siebel was a popular performer in Greenwich Village clubs. His blend of country and folk music predated its more widespread appeal following the release of Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline in 1969. Although actively pursuing a musical career throughout most of the 60s, it was not until the start of the following decade that the
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