Jimmy Dean ~ Similar Artists

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Sonny James - 100% match to Jimmy Dean

James Loden, 1 May 1929, Hackleburg, Alabama, USA. The Country Music Hall Of Fame includes a guitar that Sonny James' father made for him when he was three years old. James has been performing since that time and has played fiddle and guitar with the Lodens' family revue. Sonny... Read more

David Houston - 97% match to Jimmy Dean

9 December 1938, Bossier City, Louisiana, USA, d. 30 November 1993, Bossier City, Louisiana, USA. Houston's forefathers included Sam Houston, who fought for Texas's independence from Mexico, and the Civil War general Robert E. Lee. His parents were friends of 20s singer Gene... Read more

Jack Greene - 87% match to Jimmy Dean

Jack Henry Greene, 7 January 1930, Maryville, Tennessee, USA. Greene took guitar lessons when he was eight years old, then added drumming to his abilities. Moving to Atlanta in the late 40s, he became part of the Cherokee Trio with Lem Bryant and Speedy Price. He then became a... Read more

Hank Locklin - 69% match to Jimmy Dean

Lawrence Hankins Locklin, 15 February 1918, McLellan, Florida, USA. A farm boy, Locklin worked in the cotton fields as a child and on the roads during the Depression of the 30s. He learned to play the guitar at the age of 10 and was soon performing on local radio and at dances.... Read more

Leroy Van Dyke - 69% match to Jimmy Dean

Leroy Frank Van Dyke, 4 October 1929, Spring Fork, Missouri, USA. Besides working on the family farm, Van Dyke learnt the guitar and sang country songs. He gained a degree in agriculture from the University of Missouri, and then worked as a farm reporter and also trained as an... Read more

Stonewall Jackson - 61% match to Jimmy Dean

6 November 1932, Tabor City, North Carolina, USA. Jackson's family tree does in fact extend to the famous Confederate general of the American Civil War - hence his name. After the death of his father when Stonewall was aged two, his mother relocated to Moultrie, Georgia, where,... Read more

Bill Anderson - 60% match to Jimmy Dean

James William Anderson III, 1 November 1937, Columbia, South Carolina, USA. Country performer Anderson learned the guitar when he was aged 12 and formed his own school band. He graduated in journalism from the University of Georgia, becoming a sports writer and also working for... Read more

Ray Price - 58% match to Jimmy Dean

Ray Noble Price, 12 January 1926, on a farm near Perryville, Cherokee County, Texas, USA. Price grew up on a farm and by the time he left high school, was already singing and playing guitar locally. In 1942, while studying veterinary medicine at Abilene's North Texas... Read more

Claude King - 56% match to Jimmy Dean

5 February 1923, on a farm near Keithville, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. His date of birth has, since 1961, frequently been cited incorrectly owing to promotional material released by his then manager, Tillman Franks, who at the time thought it tactful to lose a decade from his... Read more

Don Gibson - 53% match to Jimmy Dean

3 April 1928, Shelby, North Carolina, USA, d. 17 November 2003, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. If loneliness meant world acclaim, then Gibson, with his catalogue of songs about despair and heartbreak, should have been a superstar. Considering himself "a songwriter who sings rather... Read more