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Elton Britt (1913–1972)
aka: James Elton Baker
Elton Britt was a popular country singer of the 1940s, with a yodel...
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Jim Ed Brown (1934–2015)
Country and western music star Jim Ed Brown’s career spanned more than half a century since the early 1950s....
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Maxine Brown (1931–2019)
Maxine Brown was a musician known for her work with the country group the Browns in the 1950s and early 1960s....
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The Browns
A vocal trio from southern Arkansas, the Browns had several country hits. They were also instrumental in the d...
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Billy Don Burns (1949–)
Billy Don Burns is a country singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Born and raised in Arkansas, he has made his h...
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Shawn Camp (1966–)
aka: Darrel DeShawn Camp
Shawn Camp is a singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer b...
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Glen Campbell (1936–2017)
aka: Glen Travis Campbell
Glen Travis Campbell was a commercially successful and critically a...
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Johnny Cash (1932–2003)
aka: J. R. Cash
Johnny Cash was a world-renowned singer/songwriter of country music...
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Tommy Cash (1940–2024)
Tommy Cash was a musician and the younger brother of country music legend Johnny Cash. Although he was raised...
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Cate Brothers Band
The Cate Brothers, identical twins Earl and Ernie (born Ernest), once exemplified the country-style rock and r...
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Carolina Cotton (1925–1997)
aka: Helen Hagstrom
Helen Hagstrom is best known for her country and western swing musi...
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Country Music
While the precise origins of country and western music are not entirely clear, it is thought to have its roots...
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Floyd Cramer (1933–1997)
Pianist Floyd Cramer was one of the creators of what became known as the “Nashville sound,” a styl...
Bud Deckelman (1927–1998)
Gene Darrell “Bud” Deckelman was a country and rockabilly musician who had brief success in Memphis, Tenne...
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Martin Delray (1949–)
aka: Michael Ray Martin
American country music artist Michael Ray Martin (known professiona...
Bonnie Modena Dodd (1914–1984)
aka: Little Blossom
Arkansas native Bonnie Dodd (a.k.a. “Little Blossom”) was a mus...
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Dr. Smith's Champion Hoss Hair Pullers
During the height of the great string band era of the 1920s, one of the largest and most popular string bands ...
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Ronnie Gene Dunn (1953–)
With a slew of chart-topping singles to his credit as half of the duo Brooks & Dunn, Ronnie Gene Dunn esta...
"Melvin L Endsley" gravestone with guitar engraving and portrait on it in cemetery
Melvin Endsley (1934–2004)
Melvin Endsley of Drasco (Cleburne County) was a musician and songwriter most noted for writing both the words...
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Barbara Fairchild (1950–)
Throughout her career, Barbara Fairchild has been an influential singer and songwriter in both country and g...
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Adam Faucett (1982–)
Adam Faucett is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Benton (Saline County). With his trademark long beard...
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Narvel Felts (1938–)
Albert Narvel Felts is a singer and songwriter best known for a string of commercially successful country musi...
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Fiddlin' Bob Larkan & His Music Makers
aka: Bob Larkan
aka: Bob Larkin
Fiddlin’ Bob Larkan was a well-known country fiddle player whos...
"Lefty" Frizzell (1928–1975)
aka: William Orville Frizzell
William Orville “Lefty” Frizzell was virtually the prototype of...
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Lonnie Glosson (1908–2001)
Lonnie Glosson popularized the harmonica nationwide and had a hand in several hit songs during a time when rad...
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Wayland Holyfield (1942–2024)
Wayland Holyfield was a prolific country music writer and recording artist who wrote one of Arkansas’s offic...
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Jerry Jaye (1937–)
Jerry Jaye overcame the poverty of growing up in a sharecropping family in the Mississippi Delta to launch a p...
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Buddy Jewell (1961–)
Buddy Jewell is a country musician best known for having won the top prize in the first season of the reality ...
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Toby Keith (1961–2024)
Toby Keith was an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer whose career in music ...
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Tracy Lee Lawrence (1968–)
With rural Arkansas beginnings, Tracy Lee Lawrence took Nashville, Tennessee, by storm in the early 1990s to b...
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Lisa Lee (1968–2021)
aka: Alicia Faye Young Lee
Arkansas native Lisa Lee was a respected journalist in both print m...
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Dean Manuel (1934–1964)
Dean Manuel played piano for several noteworthy bands of the mid-twentieth century, on the West Coast and in N...