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    • Feb 21, 1887
    Smith Hammett is born in Gaffney, South Carolina. The banjo player is a mentor to Earl Scruggs, teaching him the revolutionary three-finger style
    Feb 11, 1896
    Bolivar Lee Shook is born in Prentiss County, Mississippi. Operating as B.L. Shook, he pens Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs' 1959 hit "The Cabin On The Hill"
    Apr 10, 1898
    Fiddlin' Arthur Smith is born in Bold Springs, Tennessee. He performs on the Grand Ole Opry from 1929-1938, helping popularize the long-bow style of fiddle playing
    May 9, 1899
    Harry "Big Slim" McAulife is born in Bluefield, West Virginia. He writes the bluegrass standard "Sunny Side Of The Mountain"
    Apr 24, 1900
    Songwriter Bobby Gregory is born in Staunton, Virginia. He writes "Sunny Side Of The Mountain," recorded by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Jimmy Martin in the Dirt Band's 1972 album "Will The Circle Be Unbroken"
    May 16, 1901
    Bass player Birch Monroe is born. The older brother of Bill Monroe, he's among the Blue Grass Boys on the 1948 hit "Wicked Path Of Sin"
    Sep 22, 1905
    Roy "Pop" Lewis is born in Lincolnton, Georgia. With his children, he creates the bluegrass-gospel act The Lewis Family. Their record "His Blood Now Covers My Sin" is named among country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book
    Feb 4, 1906
    Fiddler Art Wooten is born in Sparta, North Carolina. He becomes the first fiddler in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in 1939 and returns to the band in the early-1940s, playing on Monroe's version of the fiddle tune "Orange Blossom Special"
    Nov 27, 1910
    Bass player Joel Price is born in Franklin County, Georgia. He plays on Bill Monroe's "Uncle Pen," and works with Little Jimmy Dickens, earning status as the first musician to play an electric bass on the Grand Ole Opry
    Mar 5, 1911
    Bass player/comedian Bill Wesbrooks is born in Gibson County, Tennessee. Known as Cousin Wilbur on stage, he joins Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys from 1940-1944, appearing on such Monroe hits as "Kentucky Waltz" and "Footprints In The Snow"



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