Carl Smith
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Webb Pierce - 100% match to Carl Smith
| Genres: | Country & Bluegrass • Pop / Rock • Soundtracks • Music Videos & Concerts • Blues |
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8 August 1921, near West Monroe, Louisiana, USA, d. 24 February 1991, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. His father died when Pierce was only three months old, his mother remarried and he was raised on a farm seven miles from Monroe. Although no one in the family performed music, his mother had a collection of country records which, together with Gene Autry films, were his first cou Read more
Lefty Frizzell - 82% match to Carl Smith
| Genres: | Country & Bluegrass • Pop / Rock • Soundtracks |
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William Orville Frizzell, 31 March 1928, Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, USA, d. 19 July 1975, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The eldest of eight children of an itinerant oilfield worker, Frizzell was raised mainly in El Dorado, Arkansas, but also lived in sundry places in Texas and Oklahoma. Greatly influenced by his parents’ old 78s of Jimmie Rodgers, he sang as a young Read more
Sonny James - 63% match to Carl Smith
| Genres: | Country & Bluegrass • Pop / Rock • Holiday & Seasonal |
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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 won several junior fiddle championships, although he was to play guitar on his records. Read more
Ferlin Husky - 61% match to Carl Smith
| Genres: | Country & Bluegrass • Pop / Rock • Country & Bluegrass • Music Videos & Concerts • Classic Exploitation • Christian & Gospel |
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3 December 1925, on a farm near Flat River, Missouri, USA. Husky learned to play guitar as a child and during World War II served in the US Merchant Navy. His mother wanted him to be a preacher and his father a farmer, but after discharge, he found radio work as an announcer and disc jockey but gradually turned to performing while at KXLW St. Louis. In the late 40s he moved Read more
Faron Young - 60% match to Carl Smith
| Genres: | Country & Bluegrass • Country & Bluegrass • Music Videos & Concerts • Westerns • Pop / Rock • Drama • Action & Adventure |
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25 February 1932, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA, d. 10 December 1996, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Young was raised on the farm his father bought just outside Shreveport and learned to play the guitar and sing country songs as a boy. Greatly influenced by Hank Williams (in his early days he was something of a soundalike) and while still at school, he formed a country band and beg Read more
Don Gibson - 58% match to Carl Smith
| Genres: | Country & Bluegrass • Pop / Rock • Country & Bluegrass • Drama • Music Videos & Concerts |
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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 than a singer who writes songs’, Gibson is best remembered as the author of three standar Read more
Hank Snow - 54% match to Carl Smith
| Genres: | Country & Bluegrass • Pop / Rock • Soundtracks • World Music • Blues |
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Clarence Eugene Snow, 9 May 1914, Brooklyn, near Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada, d. 20 December 1999, Madison, Tennessee, USA. After his parents divorced when he was eight years old, Snow spent four unhappy years with his grandmother, finally running away to rejoin his mother when she remarried. However, he was cruelly mistreated by his stepfather, which prompted him to absc Read more
Eddy Arnold - 49% match to Carl Smith
| Genres: | Country & Bluegrass • Holiday & Seasonal • Pop / Rock • Soundtracks • Music & Radio |
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Richard Edward Arnold, 15 May 1918, on a farm near Madisonville, Chester County, Tennessee, USA, d. 8 May 2008, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Arnold’s father and mother played fiddle and guitar, respectively, and he learned guitar as a child. His father died on Eddy’s 11th birthday and he left school to work on the farm. By the end of the year the bank foreclosed, and Read more
Kitty Wells - 43% match to Carl Smith
| Genres: | Country & Bluegrass • Soundtracks • Christian & Gospel • Documentaries • Holiday & Seasonal • Music Videos & Concerts • Pop / Rock |
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Muriel Ellen Deason, 30 August 1919, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The family relocated to Humphries County but returned to Nashville in 1928, where Deason’s father, who played guitar and sang for local dances, worked as a brakeman for the Tennessee Central Railroad. She grew up singing in the church choir, learned to play guitar and in 1934, she dropped out of school to w Read more
Red Foley - 43% match to Carl Smith
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Clyde Julian Foley, 17 June 1910, in a log cabin between Blue Lick and Berea, Kentucky, USA, d. 19 September 1968, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. The son of a fiddle player, Foley learned guitar as a child and was encouraged to sing by his parents. After high school, he attended Georgetown College, Kentucky, where he was discovered by a scout for the noted WLS National Barn Dance Read more
Ernest Tubb - 42% match to Carl Smith
| Genres: | Country & Bluegrass • Country & Bluegrass • Music Videos & Concerts • Documentaries • Holiday & Seasonal |
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Ernest Dale Tubb, 9 February 1914, near Crisp, Ellis County, Texas, USA, d. 6 September 1984, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Ernest was the youngest of five children of Calvin Tubb, the foreman of a 300-acre cotton farm, and his wife Sarah. In 1920 the family relocated to Benjamin, and then moved again, to Kemp, in 1925. The following year, his parents divorced and initially he Read more
Stonewall Jackson - 42% match to Carl Smith
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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, at the age of eight, he worked on his uncle’s farm. When he was 10 he swapped his bicycle Read more
Buck Owens - 41% match to Carl Smith
| Genres: | Country & Bluegrass • Television • Soundtracks • Pop / Rock • Holiday & Seasonal • Music & Radio • Comedy • Christian & Gospel • Country & Bluegrass • Music Videos & Concerts |
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Alvis Edgar Owens Jnr., 12 August 1929, Sherman, Texas, USA, d. 25 March 2006, USA, Bakersfield, California, USA. Buck Owens became one of the leading country music stars of the 60s and 70s, along with Merle Haggard, the leading exponent of the ‘west coast sound’. Owens gave himself the nickname Buck at the age of three, after a favourite horse. When he was 10, his Read more
Johnny Horton - 41% match to Carl Smith
| Genres: | Country & Bluegrass • Pop / Rock • Country & Bluegrass • Music Videos & Concerts |
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30 April 1925, Los Angeles, California, USA, d. 5 November 1960, Milano, Texas, USA. Horton was raised in Tyler, Texas, where his sharecropping family settled in search of work. He learned the guitar from his mother and, owing to his athletic prowess, won scholarships at Baylor University and later the University of Seattle. For a time he worked in the fishing industry but b Read more
Hank Locklin - 38% match to Carl Smith
| Genres: | Country & Bluegrass • Pop / Rock • Country & Bluegrass • Music Videos & Concerts |
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Lawrence Hankins Locklin, 15 February 1918, McLellan, Florida. d. 9 March 2009, Brewton, Alabama. 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. His professional career started in 1938 and after an interruption fo Read more
