• Bill Monroe
  William Smith Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American musician who helped develop the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky. Monroe's performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader. He is often referred to as The Father of Bluegrass.
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• Bob Wills
  James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by many music authorities one of the fathers of Western swing and called the King of Western Swing by his fans.
  http://wn.com/Bob_Wills
• Buddy Harman
  Buddy Harman (born Murrey Mizell Harman Jr.) (December 23, 1928 – August 21, 2008) was an American session musician.
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  Buddy Holly
  '''Charles Hardin Holley
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  Chet Atkins
  Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), better known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who created, along with Owen Bradley, the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.
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• Conway Twitty
  Conway Twitty (September 1, 1933 – June 5, 1993), born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was an American country music artist. He also had success in early rock and roll, R&B;, and pop music. He held the record for the most number one singles of any act with 55 No. 1 Billboard country hits until George Strait broke the record in 2006. From 1971–76, Twitty received a string of Country Music Association awards for duets with Loretta Lynn. A former member of the Grand Ole Opry, he was inducted into both the Country Music and the Rockabilly Halls of Fame.
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• Ernest Tubb
  Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music. In 1948, he was the first singer to record a hit version of "Blue Christmas", a song more commonly associated with Elvis Presley and his mid-1950s version. Another well-known Tubb hit was "Waltz Across Texas" (1965), which became one of his most requested songs and is often used in dance halls throughout Texas during waltz lessons. In the early 1960s, he recorded duets with up-and-coming Loretta Lynn, including their hit "Sweet Thang". Tubb is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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• Floyd Cramer
  Floyd Cramer (October 27, 1933 – December 31, 1997) was an American Hall of Fame pianist who was one of the architects of the "Nashville Sound." He popularized the 'slip note' piano style where one note slides effortlessly into the next. This was a major departure from the percussive piano style which was popular in the late 1950s.
  http://wn.com/Floyd_Cramer
• Grady Martin
  Thomas Grady Martin (January 17, 1929–December 3, 2001) was one of the most renowned, inventive and historically-significant American session musicians in country music and rockabilly.
  http://wn.com/Grady_Martin
• Hank Garland
  Walter Louis Garland (November 11, 1930 – December 27, 2004), better known as Hank Garland, was a Nashville studio musician who performed with Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Roy Orbison and many others.
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• Harold Bradley
  Harold Bradley (b. January 2, 1926, Nashville, Tennessee) is a pop guitarist and an American country guitarist.
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• k.d. lang
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  Kitty Wells
  Ellen Muriel Deason (born August 30, 1919), known professionally as Kitty Wells, is an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star. Her Top 10 hits continued until the mid-1960s, inspiring a long list of female country singers who came to prominence in the 1960s.
  http://wn.com/Kitty_Wells
• Mandy Barnett
  Amanda Carol "Mandy" Barnett (born September 28, 1975 in Crossville, Tennessee) is a country music singer and stage actress. In her musical career, she has released three albums and charted three singles on the Billboard country charts. Her highest-charting country single is "Now That's All Right With Me", which reached #43 in 1996. Barnett has also held the titular role in the musical Always… Patsy Cline, a musical based on the life of Patsy Cline.
  http://wn.com/Mandy_Barnett
• Maybelle Carter
  "Mother" Maybelle Carter (May 10, 1909 - October 23, 1978) was an American country musician. She is best known as a member of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s and also as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters.
  http://wn.com/Maybelle_Carter
• Moon Mullican
  Aubrey Wilson Mullican (March 29, 1909 – January 1, 1967), known as Moon Mullican, was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist. However, he also sang and played jazz, rock 'n' roll and the blues. He was associated with the hillbilly boogie style which greatly influenced rockabilly; Jerry Lee Lewis cited him as a major influence on his own singing and piano playing.
  http://wn.com/Moon_Mullican
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  Patsy Cline
  Patsy Cline (September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963), born Virginia Patterson Hensley, was an American country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville sound in the early 1960s. Since her death in 1963 at age 30 in a private airplane crash at the height of her career, she has been considered one of the most influential, successful, and acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th century.
  http://wn.com/Patsy_Cline
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  Roy Acuff
  Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the King of Country Music, Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.
  http://wn.com/Roy_Acuff
• Webb Pierce
  Webb Michael Pierce (August 8, 1921–February 24, 1991) was one of the most popular American honky tonk vocalists of the 1950s, charting more number one hits than any other country artist during the decade. His biggest hit is "There Stands the Glass".
  http://wn.com/Webb_Pierce

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  Appalachia
  :This article is about the region in the United States. For other uses, see Appalachia (disambiguation).
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  Canada
  Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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  Grand Ole Opry
  The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee that has presented the biggest stars of the genre since 1925. It is also among the longest-running broadcasts in history since its beginnings as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM-AM. Dedicated to honoring country music and its history, the Opry showcases a mix of legends and contemporary chart-toppers performing country, bluegrass, folk, comedy, and gospel. Considered an American icon, it attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world and millions of radio and Internet listeners. The Opry, today part of the American landscape, is "the show that made country music famous" and has been called the "home of American music" and "country’s most famous stage."
  http://wn.com/Grand_Ole_Opry
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  RCA Studio B
  RCA Studio B is a noted recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Situated at 30 Music Square W and originally known simply as RCA Studios, it became famous in the 1960s for being a part of what many refer to as the Nashville Sound. A sophisticated style characterized by background vocals and strings, the Nashville Sound both revived the popularity of country music and helped establish Nashville, Tennessee as an international recording center.
  http://wn.com/RCA_Studio_B

• Bill Monroe
• biopic
• Bob Ferguson (music)
• Bob Moore
• Bob Wills
• Brenda Lee
• Buddy Harman
• Buddy Holly
• Burl Ives
• Canada
• Chet Atkins
• Columbia Records
• Conway Twitty
• country music
• Country Style, USA
• Decca Records
• easy listening
• Ernest Tubb
• fiddle
• Floyd Cramer
• Gene Vincent
• Grady Martin
• Grand Ole Opry
• Hank Garland
• Harold Bradley
• honky-tonk
• I Fall to Pieces
• Jimmie Rodgers
• k.d. lang
• Kitty Wells
• Loretta Lynn
• Mandy Barnett
• Maybelle Carter
• Mel Tillis
• Moon Mullican
• music arranger
• Music Row
• Nashville sound
• nightclub
• Patsy Cline
• Paul Cohen
• piano
• pop music
• Quonset hut
• radio
• RCA Studio B
• RCA Victor
• record producer
• Red Foley
• Roadhouse (facility)
• Roy Acuff
• songwriter
• Sony BMG
• steel guitar
• String orchestra
• The Nashville A-Team
• US Army
• Walton Robinson
• Webb Pierce
• WSM-AM

Bradley, Owen Filmography

• Mavericks: Honky Tonk Angels - The Women (2006) (actor, plays Himself)
• The Life and Times of Conway Twitty (1995) (actor, plays Himself)

Owen Bradley

Releases by year: 1956

Album releases

Organ and Chimes (Released 1956)

• We Three Kings of Orient Are
• It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
• Silent Night
• O Holy Night
• The First Nowell
• Joy to the World
• Deck the Halls
• Ring Out the Bells / The Bells of Christmas
• The Birthday of a King
• O, Come All Ye Faithful
• O Little Town of Bethlehem
• Away in a Manger

Born: 1915-10-21

Died: 1998-01-07