Gordon Terry (b. October 7, 1931 - d. Events 3761 BC - The epoch (origin of the modern Hebrew calendar ( Proleptic Julian calendar) Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. April 9, 2006) was an adept bluegrass and country music fiddler. Events 193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans) Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of Country music. Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains.
Biography
Terry was born in Decatur, Alabama and learned to play the fiddle at an early age. Decatur is a city in Limestone and Morgan Counties in the US state of Alabama. He made his very first performance on Grand Ole Opry at the age of nine. The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Country music radio program and concert broadcast live on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee He attended fiddlers conventions and won first prize at the Alabama Fiddling Championship in 1946. In 1950, he joined Grand Ole Opry and within a year, he performed and recorded with Bill Monroe. William Smith Monroe ( September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American musician who developed the style of music known as Terry served in the army overseas in Korea. Later, after his discharge, he moved to California, and made his movie debut in "Hidden Guns" in 1956. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Over the years he appeared in five movies. In 1957, he returned for a recording session with Bill Monroe. William Smith Monroe ( September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American musician who developed the style of music known as In the following decades, he recorded with artists such as Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Faron Young, Merle Haggard, Neil Young and many more. Johnny Cash (born J R Cash; February 26 1932 - September 12 2003 was a Grammy Award -winning American country Singer-songwriter. Faron Young ( February 25, 1932, near Shreveport Louisiana – December 10, 1996) (aged 64 was an American Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6, 1937) is an American Country music Singer, Guitarist and Songwriter. Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian Singer-songwriter, Musician In November 1961, he recorded a square dance album with Flatt & Scruggs. The Foggy Mountain Boys was an influential bluegrass band that performed and recorded during the 1940s 1950s and 1960s Terry founded the amusement park Terrytown in Loretto, Tennessee in 1964, but sold it later on. Loretto is a city in Lawrence County, Tennessee, United States. He also founded ROPE Reunion Of Professional Entertainers, an association with an aim to build a retirement home for entertainers. In 1981 he was inducted into the Fiddlers Hall of Fame. In the 1980s, he had the Gordon Terry Parkway named after him. He died in 2006 in Spring Hill, Tennessee. Spring Hill is a city in Maury and Williamson counties in the U He was posthumously inducted into The Southern Legends Entertainment & Performing Arts Hall of Fame in 2006. The Southern Legends Association along with its subsidiaries is a diversified Non-profit Entertainment company with operations in four business segments Hall
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