Biography: Frank Hutchison, Frank Ifield, Frank Leahy, Frank Proffitt, Frank Rice, Faith Hill, Frank Wakefield, Frank Warner, Frank Warner & Anne Warner, Frank Welling,

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Frank Hutchison Biography, Photos, Pictures

The first white bluesman to record, Frank Hutchison recorded for a brief three years But the 32 tunes that he recorded between 1926 and 1929 influenced everyone from Leo Kottke and Spider John Koerner to Bob Dylan and Paul Geremia

Frank Ifield Biography, Photos, Pictures

Australian singer/songwriter/yodeler Frank Ifield was one of the more original country artists to come from overseas He was born in England, and moved to Australia in 1948 His father was an inventor and engineer famed for creating the Ifield pump, a device used in fuel systems for jet aircraft

In one sense, the story of Canadian fiddler Frank Leahy is the story of Don Messer, the legendary Canadian fiddler and bandleader whose music Leahy heard around the kitchen table as he was growing up

Frank Proffitt Biography, Photos, Pictures

This great North Carolina old-time music artist and clawhammer banjo specialist was the source of the folk chestnut “Tom Dooley” as well as some 50 other traditional songs and banjo numbers

Frank Rice, in partnership with Ernest Stokes, was part of a duo called Mustard & Gravy, who specialized in blues, hillbilly, and folk-style music, and minstrel-show entertainment

One of the biggest female country stars of the ’90s and 2000s, Faith Hill also took advantage of the inroads Shania Twain made into pop territory, becoming an enormous crossover success by the end of the millennium

Frank Wakefield Biography, Photos, Pictures

One of the chief innovators on the mandolin, Frank Wakefield played straight bluegrass with a number of well-known bands, including Red Allen and the Greenbriar Boys Born into a musical family in Emory Gap, Tennessee, by age eight he already knew how to play harmonica, guitar and bass

Frank Warner Biography, Photos, Pictures

The early-’60s revival of American folk music was sparked by the efforts of such folksingers and song collectors as Frank Warner Assisted by his wife, Anne, Warner traveled extensively through Canada, New England, and the American south in search of material

Frank Warner & Anne Warner Biography, Photos, Pictures

Like Alan and John Lomax, the field recordings of husband and wife team Anne and Frank Warner would have an enormous impact on the folk revival in the late ’50s and early ’60s

Frank Welling Biography, Photos, Pictures

Frank Welling was a historic early country & western performer who in many ways helped dig the well for what would sometimes seem like a steady gushing of sentiment The later country singer Red Sovine would often pick out the prolific recordings of Welling and his harmony bass singer, harmonica player, and guitarist John McGhee as being incredibly influential in the development of his own career, which at least commercially would peak with the release of some of the most tear-jerking material in the history of phonograph records, such as the weeper based on his own daughter’s “Teddy Bear