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Mar 19, 1928
Banjo player Tom Paley is born in New York. He becomes a founding member of the string band The New Lost City Ramblers. Their recording of "On Some Foggy Mountain Top" is used in the 2019 PBS series "Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns"
Mar 26, 1928
Steel guitarist Bud Isaacs is born in Bedford, Indiana. His performance on Webb Pierce's "Slowly" establishes the steel as a significant country instrument. Isaacs also plays on duet hits for Red Foley and Kitty Wells
Apr 21, 1928
Hank Williams' bass player, Hillous Butrum, is born in Lafayette, Tennessee. He remains with Williams for just one year, however, leaving the Drifting Cowboys in July 1950 to join Hank Snow's band
Apr 25, 1928
Fiddler Vassar Clements is born in Kinard, South Carolina. He gains five Grammy nominations while playing everything from bluegrass to jazz, including an appearance on The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's classic "Will The Circle Be Unbroken"
May 5, 1928
Bass player Marshall Grant is born near Bryson City, North Carolina. He spends more than 20 years playing in Johnny Cash's band and eventually becomes manager of The Statler Brothers. Among Grant's credits: "Daddy Sang Bass," "I Walk The Line" and "Folsom Prison Blues"
May 8, 1928
Fiddler Benny Martin is born in Sparta, Tennessee. Beginning professionally as a teenager, he becomes a sideman for Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, Kitty Wells and Roy Acuff, among others
Jul 21, 1928
Bass player Junior Huskey is born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His credits include work with Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn
Aug 6, 1928
Guitarist Bobby Sykes is born in Henry County, Tennessee. A member of Marty Robbins' band, he plays on his hit "The Chair." Sykes also authors Faron Young's single "Wonderful World Of Women"
Aug 25, 1928
Fiddler Jerry Rivers is born in Nashville. He joins Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys from 1949-1951, playing on such classics as "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," "Hey, Good Lookin'" and "Cold, Cold Heart"
Sep 16, 1928
Steel guitarist Ralph Mooney is born in Duncan, Oklahoma. He co-writes the Ray Price classic "Crazy Arms" and plays on hits by Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Wynn Stewart and Buck Owens, among others
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