Mac Wiseman
Full Name: Malcolm Bell Wiseman
Birth Date: May 23, 1925
Deceased Date: February 24, 2019
Artist Bio:
Known as “The Voice with a Heart,” former radio DJ and guitarist for Bill Monroe‘s Foggy Mountain Boys, started a solo career in 1951 and became a legend in bluegrass and country music with over 60 albums and a knack for pulling from other genres through his versions of The Ballad of Davy Crockett (Country #10, 1955), the R&B standard I Hear You Knockin,” Fleetwood Macs Never Going Back Again and others, also recorded with jazz great Woody Herman and folkie John Prine, co-founded the Country Music Association (CMA) in 1958 to save country music from the rise of rock ‘n’ roll, received a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellowship in 1993 honoring his contributions to traditional American music and arts, died from kidney failure on 2/24/2019, age 93.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/obituaries/mac-wiseman-dead.html
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