Grandpa jones wife ramona biography
Grandpa jones wife ramona biography
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Grandpa Jones
Musical artist (1913–1998)
For other people named Louis Jones, see Louis Jones (disambiguation).
Musical artist
Louis Marshall Jones (October 20, 1913 – February 19, 1998), known professionally as Grandpa Jones, was an American banjo player and old time/country music singer.
He was inducted as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1978.[1]
Biography
Jones was born in the small farming community of Niagara in Henderson County, Kentucky, the youngest of 10 children in a sharecropper's family.[2] His father was an old-time fiddle player, and his mother was a ballad singer and herself adept on the concertina.[3] His first instrument was guitar.[4] Ramona Riggins, one of several women who began to gain some recognition in a musical form long dominated by men[4][5] was Grandpa's wife and musical partner of over thirty years.[6] Ramona first started playing the mandolin when she was si