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    • Feb 1, 1930
    Banjo player Smith Hammett is shot and killed by a gas station owner in Gaffney, South Carolina, after threatening the man and his customers with a knife. During his life, Hammett mentored Earl Scruggs, teaching the younger musician the three-finger style of picking that would bring Scruggs to national attention
    Aug 16, 1930
    Blind fiddler G.B. Grayson dies after an accident in which he was riding the sideboard of a car in Abingdon, Virginia. His "Ommie Wise" appears in the Country Music Foundation's ranking of the 500 greatest country singles
    Feb 17, 1931
    Uncle Jimmy Thompson dies of pneumonia in his home outside of Nashville. The fiddle player was the first musician to perform on what became the Grand Ole Opry
    Apr 13, 1931
    Songwriter Maurice Abrahams dies at his home on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Among his credits is "Ragtime Cowboy Joe," a song that appears in a number of western movies before becoming a 1947 country hit for pop singer Eddy Howard
    Apr 14, 1931
    African-American blues guitarist Arnold Shultz dies from a heart disorder in Morgantown, Kentucky. He was a musical mentor to a teen-aged Bill Monroe
    May 16, 1931
    Songwriter Grant Clarke dies two days after his 40th birthday from alcohol-related heart failure in California. Clarke and Maurice Abrahams co-wrote "Ragtime Cowboy Joe," destined to become a country hit for Eddy Howard in 1947
    May 21, 1931
    Charlie Poole dies of a heart attack in North Carolina at age 39. The hard-living banjo player led The North Carolina Ramblers, who released a series of hits in a five-year recording career that began with Columbia in 1925
    Oct 18, 1931
    Thomas A. Edison dies in West Orange, New Jersey. His invention of the talking machine in the 1800s led directly to the development of the recording industry, providing a foundation for country music's future
    Jan 13, 1932
    Grand Ole Opry member Uncle Joe Mangrum dies, one day after suffering a heart attack at his Nashville home
    Nov 2, 1932
    William Morris, founder and namesake of the William Morris booking agency, dies



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