50 Years Ago: Opry Legend Stringbean Akeman is Murdered

SavingCountryMusic.com ^ | Nov 10 2023 | Steven Paul

[fella]

The cooperation music out of Nashville is really from Hollywood and New York City.

[ArtDodger]

I seem to recall it was Grandpa Jones, his old friend who found the bodies and notified the police.
I think Stringbean was playing with Bill Monroe when Earl Scruggs came out of the hills and auditioned for his job, which he got, putting Stringbean out of work. Music history..

[Monterrosa-24]

String was one of the great old-style banjo pickers. Watch him on YouTube performing HILLBILLY FEVER.

[guest7]

"I remember that! so long ago! He was a standard on Hee Haw!"

[Graybeard58]

I seem to recall it was Grandpa Jones.....

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Grandpa Jones picked up the moniker “Grandpa Jones” when he was 28 years old.