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    • May 15, 1983
    Bashful Brother Oswald marries Euneta Orene Adams at the former home of the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. Roy Acuff sings "Tied Down," and Bill Carlisle performs "Too Old To Cut The Mustard"
    May 26, 1984
    Onie Wheeler, the harmonica player in Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys, dies of cardiac arrest during videotaping of "Grand Ole Gospel Time" on the stage at the Grand Ole Opry House
    Apr 6, 1985
    Guitarist Gene Martin dies. He worked with Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys and played on two Hank Snow hits
    Aug 1, 1987
    Fiddler Howard "Howdy" Forrester dies of cancer in Nashville. He was a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in the 1940s and Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys in the '50s, and played on hits by Hank Thompson and Kitty Wells
    Sep 14, 1991
    Linda Demonbreun, daughter of Smoky Mountain Boys Dobro player Bashful Brother Oswald, dies in Nashville
    Dec 2, 1992
    The Smoky Mountain Boys play "I'll Fly Away" to close a memorial to Roy Acuff at the Acuff Theatre. Also taking part: Hank Snow, Ricky Skaggs, Bill Monroe, Jeannie Seely, Eddy Arnold, Chet Atkins and Little Jimmy Dickens
    Dec 28, 1994
    Former Smoky Mountain Boy Oral "Curley" Rhodes dies in Tennessee. He played bass and guitar in Roy Acuff's band from 1940-1942 and had a few shorter stints with the group during the decade after serving in World War II
    Jan 21, 1995
    Bashful Brother Oswald, Dobro player for the late Roy Acuff, is made a member of the Grand Ole Opry
    Apr 2, 2002
    Billy Collins dies at his home in Nashville. He is the son of guitarist Charlie Collins, a former member of Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys
    Oct 17, 2002
    Dobro player Bashful Brother Oswald dies at his Nashville home. A member of the Grand Ole Opry beginning in 1995, he was a fixture in Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys, playing on such titles as "The Precious Jewel" and "Wreck On The Highway"
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