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    • Nov 11, 1887
    Guitarist Burt Hutcherson is born in Williamson County, Tennessee. He joins The Gully Jumpers, a stringband that plays on the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years beginning in 1927. The group is also the first act to hold a recording session for Victor Records in Nashville
    Aug 16, 1889
    Guitarist Paul Warmack is born in Whites Creek, Tennessee. He forms The Gully Jumpers, a stringband that appears on the Grand Ole Opry from 1927 to the '70s, and becomes the first Victor act to record in Nashville
    Jul 19, 1896
    Banjo player William Hardison is born in Maury County, Tennessee. He joins The Gully Jumpers, a stringband that begins a lengthy Grand Ole Opry association in 1927 and becomes the first Victor act to record in Nashville
    Dec 24, 1927
    One of the Grand Ole Opry's hoedown bands, formerly known as Paul Warmack & His Barn Dance Orchestra, works the show for the first time as The Gully Jumpers
    Oct 1, 1928
    The Gully Jumpers, led by Paul Warmack, record at the YMCA in Nashville with producer Ralph Peer. Two of the tracks, including "The Little Red Caboose Behind The Train," become the first songs recorded in Music City to be released as singles
    May 17, 1929
    Victor releases The Gully Jumpers' "The Little Red Caboose Behind The Train," the first Nashville recording to be issued as a single. An earlier Nashville release, by the Vaughan Quartet and The Binckley Brothers, was actually recorded later
    Jul 4, 1934
    The Grand Ole Opry holds its first successful concert apart from the radio show, as thousands appear in West Tennessee to see Uncle Dave Macon, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, The Gully Jumpers and The Crook Brothers, with emcee George D. Hay
    Jul 2, 1954
    Guitarist Paul Warmack dies of a heart attack at Vanderbilt University Hospital. He was the leader of The Gully Jumpers, a stringband that first appeared on the Grand Ole Opry in 1927, and would continue an Opry association until the 1970s
    Jun 30, 1980
    Burt Hutcherson, retired guitarist for the stringband The Gully Jumpers, has an operation in Nashville for cataracts
    Jul 10, 1980
    Guitarist Burt Hutcherson dies from pneumonia in Nashville. He was a member of The Gully Jumpers, a stringband that worked the Grand Ole Opry from 1927 until the 1970s, and became the first act contracted by Victor Records to hold a recording session in Nashville
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