Carl Story

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Carl Story (May 29, 1916 - March 31, 1995) was an influential bluegrass musician and leader of his band the "Rambling Mountaineers". He was dubbed "The Father of Bluegrass Gospel Music" by the governor of Oklahoma. Story was born in Lenoir, North Carolina into a musically inclined family. His father played the fiddle and his mother played the guitar and Story learned to master both fiddle, guitar and clawhammer banjo. In the early 1930s, after winning a fiddle contest, he joined "J. E. Clark and the Lonesome Mountaineers" performing at WLVA in Lynchburg, Virginia. In 1934, he formed the "Rambling Mountaineers" together with banjo player Johnny Whisnant and guitarists Dudley Watson and Ed McMahan. Within a year they played over radio station WHKY in Hickory, North Carolina. It later led to performances at WSPA in Spartanburg, South Carolina and WWNC in Asheville, North Carolina. They recorded for ARC in 1939 and Okeh Records in 1940; however, these recordings were never issued. Story played with Bill Monroe in 1942 as a fiddler - replacing Howdy Forrester who had been drafted - but eventually he was drafted too in October 1943. After his discharge from the Navy in 1945, he began performing with his "Rambling Mountaineers" on the "Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round" show at KNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1947, he recorded for the Mercury label. At the recording sessions of 1947, Story temporarily labelled his band the "Melody Four Quartet". During the 1950s, Carl Story's "Rambling Mount

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AH Rambling

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100 Greatest Bluegrass Hits

Bluegrass Gospel

Country Gospel Classics

The Bluegrass Gospel Collection

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Oh Brother Can You Spare a Dime

That'll Flat Git It, Vol. 23

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50 Years of Bluegrass Hits, Vol. 3

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American Gothic : Bluegrass Songs of Death & Sorrow

Carl Story Sings Bluegrass Gospel

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50 Years of Bluegrass Hits, Vol. 4

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The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands

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