'Dueling Banjos' songwriter, Arthur 'Guitar Boogie' Smith has passed away just two days after his 93rd birthday. The songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and TV star came into the spotlight ...
The kid from Kershaw, S.C., picked a guitar like his fingers were on fire. Hot licks flew from the instrument when Arthur Smith played – a wizard coaxing magic out of the strings. In 1945, he wrote ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The kid from Kershaw, S.C., picked a guitar like his fingers were on fire. Hot licks flew from the instrument when Arthur Smith played — a wizard coaxing magic out of the strings. In ...
Arthur Smith, 93, a bluegrass musician who wrote and recorded the sizzling instrumentals “Guitar Boogie” and “Feuding Banjos,” died Thursday at his home in Charlotte, N.C., his family announced. No ...
It's rather promising for a band's debut to remind you of the Faces on the fast numbers and of Otis Redding on the slow ones, but these legends provide solid points of reference for JJ Grey & Mofro's ...