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Buck Trent
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Buck Trent (born Charles Wilburn Trent in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on February 17, 1938; died October 9, 2023) was an American country music instrumentalist. He invented the electric banjo and played the five-string banjo, dobro, steel guitar, mandolin, electric bass and guitar. Performing on radio stations WORD and WSPA in Spartansburg by age 11, Trent was a member of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys from 1960 to 1961, Porter Wagoner's "Wagon Masters" from 1962 to 1973, and also appeared on the Roy Clark Show and Hee Haw from 1974 to 1982. He played lead guitar on Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene". In 2012 Trent was featured on two songs on Marty Stuart's album, "Nashville, Vol. 1: Tear the Woodpile Down". He and Roy Clark were twice named the Country Music Association Instrumental Group of the Year (1975, 1976) and he was twice the No. 1 Instrumentalist of the Year for the Music City Awards. Included in his nominations are the 1976 No. 1 Instrumentalist of the Year for Record World, 1972 through 1981 No. 1 Instrumentalist for the Music City News Awards and in 1979–1981 Instrumental Group of the Year (with Wendy Holcomb in the Bluegrass category) for the Music City News Awards. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
