This site is dedicated to all the self taught musicians who emerged from the hills and hollows, the barren dust bowl, and the desolate plains searching for a better life than picking cotton or working in the mines or farms.
While some of them became stars and household names most of them eked out a living working in the Honkytonks, gin mills and dance halls scattered across this country.
I came from the hills of Kentucky and became a part time country musician after a stint in the USAF and played professionally from 1954 until 1986. During that time my path crossed many country musicians of many varied and diverse talents. They were all unique and all stars and talented people in my eyes I am proud to have know each and every one of them.
Many of them has passed on to a much better place and maybe by writing about them they will live on in our thoughts.
Someone once said
"you are not dead as long as one person remembers your name".

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