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Playing Since: 1951
Experience Level: Expert/Professional
Interests:
[Helping]
Occupation: Retired Textile & Music Exec
Gender: Male
Age: 88
My Instruments:
Custom Open back flat ring built for me in 1992 by Marty Lantham, Nashville. The inlay is a flowering vine.
SS Stuart Thoroughbred Stuart #54861 built 1896
S S Stuart Orchestra 12" head # 13164 built 1891
SS Stuart Banjorine 8 inch head (Lady model) # 9858 built 1894
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Cowboy's Ragtime Band
Tim O'Brian
String Bean (David Akeman)
Leroy Troy (Troy Boswell)
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Created 3/14/2009
Last Visit 7/31/2009
1952 Dismembered Tennesseans Band, high school
1957 Third Marine Division Poor Boys Hillbilly band
1961 Grand Ol Opry as a regular guest through 1973, 1961 - 1966 as Walter Forbes and the Lonesome Travelers who were Bob Johnson, banjo and Norman Blake, guitar dobro & mandolin
1961 RCA Victor contract, two albums: Ballads and Bluegrass, and Folk Song Festival.
1964 to present, Part of the "Crew Bound for Alpha Centari"
following our leader, Jack Clement, along with Alan Reynolds, Dickie Lee, Roger Cook, Sandy Mason, Earl Willis, David Ferguson, Gove Scrivner, Kenny Malone,and a host of other good people. A few, like Waylon Jennings and Johnnie Cash, Charles Cochran, and Vince Matthews have gone on before us. You can find us all, sooner or later, at The Cowboy Arms and Recording Spa in Nashville.
