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    • Jan 26, 1900
    Fiddler Clayton McMichen is born in Allatoona, Georgia. He records as a member of Gid Tanner's Skillet Lickers, a string band that rises to importance in country music during the 1920s, before embarking on a solo career
    Sep 18, 1922
    Fiddler Clayton McMichen makes his first appearance on Atlanta radio station WSB
    Jul 7, 1925
    Clayton McMichen holds his first recording session
    Jul 21, 1932
    Jimmie Rodgers wires fiddler Clayton McMichen from Gadsden, Alabama, asking the former Skillet Licker to record with him. McMichen obliges, injecting morphine into Rodgers' veins during the sessions to quell the pain of tuberculosis
    Mar 1, 1937
    Nineteen-year-old Merle Travis works a show with Clayton McMichen in Columbus, Ohio, leaving mining work behind in Kentucky for a career as a musician
    Apr 12, 1937
    Merle Travis marries Mary Johnson in Cincinnati. Clayton McMichen takes the role of Travis' father at the wedding, and fiddler Bert Layne, of McMichen's band the Georgia Wildcats, gives the bride away
    Jan 4, 1970
    Fiddler Clayton McMichen dies in Battletown, Kentucky. He was a central figure in The Skillet Lickers, a Georgia-based string band that ranked among country's top acts during the 1920s
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