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    • Aug 19, 1932
    Grover "Shorty" Lavender is born in Old Fort, North Carolina. After playing fiddle on hits by Marty Robbins and Ray Price, he becomes a booking agent, working with George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Bill Anderson and Ronnie Milsap, among others
    Oct 4, 1965
    CBS-TV's "The Steve Lawrence Show" presents a salute to country music, with Eddy Arnold, Grandpa Jones, The Jordanaires, The Stoney Mountain Cloggers and fiddlers Shorty Lavender, Benny Martin and Tommy Vaden
    Dec 29, 1971
    Fiddlers Buddy Spicher and Shorty Lavender do additional work on David Rogers' "Need You" with producer Pete Drake during an overdub session at the Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville
    Nov 16, 1973
    Fiddlers Johnny Gimble and Grover "Shorty" Lavender join producer Pete Drake to work on David Rogers' "Loving You Has Changed My Life" in an overdub session at Pete's Place in Nashville
    Jan 17, 1974
    Steel player Pete Drake and fiddlers Johnny Gimble, Buddy Spicher and Shorty Lavender are overdubbed on Melba Montgomery's "No Charge" at Pete's Place in Nashville
    Mar 1, 1982
    Booking agent Grover "Shorty" Lavender dies. He worked with such acts as The Statler Brothers, George Jones and Tammy Wynette, but only after playing fiddle on hits by Marty Robbins and Ray Price, including "Heartaches By The Number"
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