Biography: Henry Bogan, Hal Bynum, Henry Lester, Henry Lewy, Henry Reed, Henry Smith, Henry Strzelecki, Henry Whitter, Henry Whittier, Henson Cargill,

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The instrument has a superb bottom end, capable of playing a bass line for any kind of music The strings can be plucked or bowed, the range high enough to jump above an ensemble for solo lines, but characteristically strong in the midrange

Hal Bynum first made his name on the country/bluegrass scene as a songwriter, penning over 50 songs that were recorded during the 1950s and ’60s before abandoning a series of odd jobs to move to Nashville and pursue a full-time career in 1968

Henry Lester Biography, Photos, Pictures

A pair of front-line fiddles is about as valuable in either old-time string band or Western music as a pair of aces in poker One of the most interesting historic string bands, the East Texas Serenaders got along with just one fiddle, thank you, for quite awhile, bolstering the amount of flailing bows on-stage by employing a cellist

Producer and engineer Henry Lewy remains inextricably linked to the singer/songwriter renaissance of the late ’60s and early ’70s, helming classic folk-rock LPs for artists including Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and Crosby, Stills & Nash

Fiddler (he also played banjo and harmonica) James Henry Neel Reed was born April 28, 1884, in a typically rural Appalachian setting in the Monroe County region of southeastern West Virginia

This British country and western singer/songwriter was only five years old when he started playing drums in his father’s band Showing even more initiative than drummer Jimmy Carl Black of “when do we get paid?” fame, Henry Smith the toddler supposedly was asking his old man for his salary even before his gig was over

Henry Strzelecki Biography, Photos, Pictures

Birmingham, AL-born Henry Strzelecki (sometimes credited as Henry P Strzelecki) started out in country music in his teens, recording with songwriter Baker Knight on the Decca label out of Nashville in the mid-’50s

Henry Whitter Biography, Photos, Pictures

Guitarist and harmonica player Henry Whitter was co-billed with GB Grayson on a series of popular hillbilly sides recorded for Victor during the late ’20s Born in 1892, he was one of the first folk/countryfigures to use the harmonica rack allowing musicians to simultaneously play guitar and harmonica

Henry Whittier Biography, Photos, Pictures

Though his voice was once thought to be so bad it was unreleasable, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Henry Whittier, a mill worker by trade, actually inspired artists and labels to put faith in traditional mountain music, such as “The Wreck of the Old 97

Henson Cargill Biography, Photos, Pictures

Henson Cargill had tried his hand at being a lawyer, rancher, and deputy sheriff before settling on country music as a career after returning to Oklahoma from Colorado State University

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