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Charline Arthur - 52% match to Wayne Raney

Charline Highsmith, 2 September 1929, Henrietta, Texas, USA, d. 27 November 1987, Pocatello, Idaho, USA. The second of a Pentecostal preacher’s 12 children, she grew up in Paris, Texas, and first sang locally with her sister Dottie. By 1945, inspired by Ernest Tubb, she sang on KPLT and married Jack Arthur, who later played bass on her recordings. In the late 40s, she p Read more

The Carlisles - 48% match to Wayne Raney

Cliff Carlisle (Clifford Raymond Carlisle, 6 May 1904, near Mount Eden, Spencer County, Kentucky, USA, d. 2 April 1983, Lexington, Kentucky, USA) and Bill Carlisle (b. William Carlisle, 19 December 1908, Wakefield, Kentucky, USA, d. 17 March 2003, USA). Born in a log cabin on a tobacco farm, Cliff developed an early affinity for yodelling blues music and the Hawaiian guitar, Read more

Jimmie Skinner - 38% match to Wayne Raney

29 April 1909, Blue Lick, near Berea, Kentucky, USA, d. 27 October 1979. Skinner relocated with the family to Hamilton, near Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1926, where he found work in a factory. In 1928, he heard recordings by Jimmie Rodgers that impressed him so much that he bought a guitar and set out to be a singer. He first broadcast on WCKY Covington and in the early 30s with hi Read more

Justin Tubb - 31% match to Wayne Raney

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

The York Brothers - 29% match to Wayne Raney

A popular harmony duo comprising George York (17 February 1910, Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky, USA, d. July 1974; guitar, harmonica, vocals) and Leslie York (b. 23 August 1917, Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky, USA, d. 21 February 1984; guitar, vocals). George first worked in the coalmines before moving to Denver, where he played on local radio. In the late 30s, somewha Read more

Johnnie Lee Wills - 27% match to Wayne Raney

2 September 1912, on a farm near Kosse, Limestone County, Texas, USA, d. 25 October 1984, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Younger brother of Bob Wills and the fourth of the Wills family’s children. He learned to play the guitar as a child but later played tenor banjo and fiddle. He made his musical debut in 1933, when he became one of brother Bob’s second band, working as Jo Read more

Rosalie Allen - 26% match to Wayne Raney

Julie Marlene Bedra, 27 June 1924, Old Forge, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 24 September 2003, Van Nuys, California, USA. Born of Polish immigrant stock, as a child Allen was taught to play guitar and yodel, and moved to New York in her mid-teens where she found work on Denver Darling’s Swing Billies radio programme. Between 1946 and 1953 she recorded for RCA Records, having co Read more

Terry Fell - 26% match to Wayne Raney

13 May 1921, Dora, Alabama, USA, d. 1998. Although Terry Fell’s name appears only once in the Billboard country charts, he staked his claim to fame by being not only the writer of ‘Truck Driving Man’ but also the original recorder of the song. In 1930, he swapped his pet groundhog for a guitar, although it was to be three years before anyone showed him how to Read more

Tommy Duncan - 22% match to Wayne Raney

Thomas Elmer Duncan, 11 January 1911, Hillsboro, Texas, USA, d. 25 July 1967. Duncan grew up loving the music of Jimmie Rodgers and made the start of a long musical career in 1932, when he joined Bob Wills in the Light Crust Doughboys. When Wills quit in 1933 to form his own band, Duncan went with him to become one of Wills’ original Texas Playboys. He stayed with Will Read more

The Light Crust Doughboys - 21% match to Wayne Raney

Adolph Hofner - 19% match to Wayne Raney

8 June 1916, Moulton, Lavaca County, Texas, USA, d. 2 June 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA. His father was part-German and his mother Czechoslovakian, and Hofner grew up initially speaking Czech and with a love of polka music. He and his brother Emil (b. 1918, d. 16 January 2002) both learned to play stringed instruments and by the early 30s, with Emil playing steel and Adolph Read more

Dan Pickett - 19% match to Wayne Raney

James Founty. Pickett was a singer and guitarist, whose August 1949 recordings prompted years of speculation. Many noted his stylistic links with the blues of the east coast, and it was through company files that critics discovered his real name. Pickett’s repertoire was derived almost exclusively from 30s recordings, and his virtuosity went into the delivery, rather th Read more

Cliffie Stone - 16% match to Wayne Raney

Clifford Gilpin Snyder, 1 March 1917, Burbank, California, USA, d. 17 January 1998, Santa Clarita, California, USA. In the early 30s Stone played bass and trombone in dance bands before becoming a country music compère and disc jockey in 1935. During the 40s he was band leader and host of the CBS networkHollywood Barn Dance and from 1943-47 he compèred almost 3 Read more