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Jul 20, 1927Bass player and guitarist Velma Williams Smith is born in Logan County, Kentucky. She appears with Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys and later becomes a session musician, playing on hits by Bobby Bare, Skeeter Davis and Eddy ArnoldSep 13, 2008Fiddler Hal Smith dies at Skyline Medical Center in Nashville. The husband of Roy Acuff musician Velma Williams Smith, he played on hits by Ernest Tubb, Carl Smith and Little Jimmy DickensJan 28, 2014Barbara Mandrell and Roy Orbison are added to the Musicians Hall of Fame at Nashville's Municipal Auditorium. Other new members include guitarists Jimmy Capps and Corki Casey O'Dell, steel guitar player Ben Keith, bass player Velma Williams Smith and record executive Mike CurbJul 31, 2014Guitarist Velma Williams Smith dies in Madison, Tennessee. Inducted six months earlier in the Musicians Hall of Fame, she played on Bobby Bare's "Detroit City," Skeeter Davis' "The End Of The World" and Don Gibson's "Oh Lonesome Me"
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