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10/17/1865 - Levi Brown of Baltimore, MD receives a patent for a guitar-banjo which uses a thin piece of wood instead of a flesh head "which invariably slackens in damp weather and injures the tone of the instrument to a very great extent." Read more....
10/12/1962 - "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" (featuring Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs) is released. It would remain number one on the Billboard country singles chart for three weeks in 1962. Read more....
10/16/1984 - Don Reno dies and is buried in Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia.
10/13/2019 - Raymond Fairchild, noted banjo player, entertainer, and western North Carolina icon, passes away following a heart attack. Read more....
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