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Mac Wiseman
12+ albums
bluegrasscountryAllsinger-songwriterfolk
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Mac Wiseman (Malcolm B. Wiseman, May 23, 1925 – February 24, 2019) was an American bluegrass singer, guitarist and songwriter. Born in Crimora, Virginia, he attended school in New Hope Virginia and graduated from high school there in 1943. He studied at the Shenandoah Conservatory in Dayton, Virginia, before it moved to Winchester, Virginia in 1960, and started his career as a disc jockey at WSVA-AM in Harrisonburg, Virginia. His musical career began as upright bass player in the band of country singer Molly O'Day. When Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs left Bill Monroe's band, Wiseman became the guitarist for their new band, the Foggy Mountain Boys. Later he played with Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. After a performance on Louisiana Hayride he became popular as solo artist. In the 1950s, he was the star of The Old Dominion Barn Dance on WRVA in Richmond, Va. During the folk revival in the 1960s, Wiseman had successful concerts at the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall. He joined producers Randall Franks and Alan Autry for the In the Heat of the Night cast CD Christmas Time’s A Comin’ released on Sonlite and MGM/UA for one of the most popular Christmas releases of 1991 and 1992 with Southern retailers. In 2014, he released an album of songs inspired by his mother's handwritten notebooks of songs she heard on the radio when Mac was a child: Songs From My Mother's Hand. In 1993 he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor. His substantial girth and light
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Story
Most Requested
The Best Of Mac Wiseman - Essential Original Masters - 25 Classics
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100 Greatest Bluegrass Hits
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The Appalachians
Sings Old Time Country Favorites
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'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered: Complete Recordings 1951-1964
The Mac Wiseman Story
Grassroots To Bluegrass
I Sang The Song (Life Of The Voice With A Heart)
The Ultimate Collection (1951-1960)