Posted: 12:10 p.m. Friday, March 15, 2013
Jack Greene Dead: Grand Ole Opry Legend Was First CMA Male Vocalist Winner
By Stephen L. Betts
Filed under: Legends, Country News, R.I.P.
www.jackgreeneopry.com
Born and raised in Maryville, Tenn., in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, Greene learned to play guitar when he was barely 10 years old and got his first radio job as a teenager. At 18, he was appearing on the Tennessee Barn Dance on WNOX in Knoxville. He then moved to Atlanta, and toured throughout the South with the Peach Street Cowboys. Greene first came to national prominence as drummer in country legend Ernest Tubb's band, the Texas Troubadours.
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