This is the grave of Webb Pierce. Born in 1921 in West Monroe, Louisiana, Pierce became a huge fan of country music as a child. He started playing the guitar and by the time he was 15, he had a short radio show on a...
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This is the grave of Jim Denny. Born in 1911 in Silver Point, Tennessee, Denny grew up dirt poor. He went to work as a teenager, moving to Nashville. In.
This is the grave of Porter Wagoner. Born in 1927 in West Plains, Missouri, Wagoner grew up in a farming family. But from a child, he was taken with increasingly.
To what extent is the performance of music work and thus has its own labor history? That's probably not a question you've thought much about, but of course it is work and that labor exists within the same context of time and place. The historian...
This is the grave of Earl Scruggs. Born in Flint Hill, North Carolina, a small community in Cleveland County, in 1924, Scruggs became one of the most interesting and innovative.
This is the grave of Fred Rose. Born in Evansville, Indiana in 1897 or 1898 (there is evidently some dispute about this), Knols Fred Rose started playing piano as a.
This is the grave of Vic Willis. Born in 1922 in Oklahoma, Vic Willis was part of the Willis Brothers, a country music act that developed in the Sooner State in the late 1930s. They moved to Kansas City, broke up for awhile as they...
This is the grave of Jerry Chesnut. Born in 1931 in Harlan County, Kentucky, Chesnut moved to Nashville in 1958 to make it in the country music industry. Like so.
This is the grave of Jim Ed Brown. Born in 1934 in Sparkman, Arkansas, his family moved to Pine Bluff when he was a child. They frequently sang publicly as.
This is the grave of Billy Sherrill. Born in Phil Campbell, Alabama in 1936, Sherrill's father was a preacher. But it didn't stick to young Billy. Instead, he found the glorious sin of music. He started off on the piano and then learned the sax,...
This is the grave of Mack Vickery. Born in 1938 in Town Creek, Alabama, Willard Vickery, known as Mack, became a musician and was determined to break into the vibrant.
This is the grave of Pop and Hattie Stoneman, as well as Scotty Stoneman and other various Stoneman Family members. Ernest "Pop" Stoneman was born in 1893 in Monarat, Virginia..