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Mar 2, 1923
Doc Watson is born in Deep Gap, North Carolina. A blind acoustic guitarist, he joins The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on its album "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" and collects seven Grammy awards
Sep 14, 1923
Photographer Hope Powell is born in Salisbury, North Carolina. She goes on to shoot the cover images for albums by the likes of Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Conway Twitty and Tom T. Hall
Jan 6, 1924
Earl Scruggs is born in Shelby, North Carolina. The innovative banjo man joins Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys in the 1940s, then forms a duo with Lester Flatt on the way to the Country Music Hall of Fame as one of bluegrass' pillars
Jan 29, 1924
Lillie Maude Collins is born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. Her son, Joe Bonsall, will become a member of The Oak Ridge Boys
Apr 11, 1925
Guitarist George Shuffler is born in Burke County, North Carolina. He joins The Stanley Brothers' band, the Clinch Mountain Boys, in 1950, performing with the group for most of the next 18 years
May 17, 1925
Red Smiley is born in Marshall, North Carolina. He becomes lead vocalist and guitarist for the 1950s bluegrass duo Reno & Smiley
Aug 15, 1925
Bass vocalist Bill Pinkney is born in Sumter, North Carolina. An original member of The Drifters, he sings on the R&B hit "Honey Love," covered by country's The Carlisles in 1954. Pinkney leaves The Drifters in 1958, just before the group reaches its commercial peak
Jun 1, 1926
Actor Andy Griffith is born in Mount Airy, North Carolina. His 1960s TV series "The Andy Griffith Show" becomes a touchstone for small-town America, and he's namechecked in Tex Ritter's "I Dreamed Of A Hill-billy Heaven." He also appears in the video for Brad Paisley's "Waitin' On A Woman"
Sep 23, 1926
Saxophone player John Coltrane is born in Hamlet, North Carolina. The trend-setting jazz legend is namechecked in the lyrics of Brad Paisley's 2011 Alabama collaboration, "Old Alabama"
Feb 21, 1927
WWNC Radio goes on the air in Asheville, North Carolina. Two months later, it provides a home for Jimmie Rodgers' broadcast debut
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