Submitted by guitar-list on Fri, 2006-11-24 15:01

musical style: 

• Gospel
• Electric Memphis Blues

Bill Emerson (born William Hundley Emerson, Jr. on 22 January 1938; died 21 August 2021) was an American five-string banjo player known for being one of the founding members of the original The Country Gentlemen and duo Emerson & Waldron and considered one of the finest bluegrass banjo players in US music history (Note: not to be confused with another country musician named Bill Emerson, known as "Wild Bill Emerson", who was also born in 1938).

From 2007-2015, he recorded as Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie. Read more about Bill Emerson on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

Bill Emerson

1938-01-22 to 2021-08-21

collaboration

• Emerson & Waldron

married

• Lola G. Emerson

member of band

• The Country Gentlemen
• Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys
• U.S. Navy Country Current
• Bill Emerson and Sweet Dixie

allmusic

• Bill Emerson allmusic

biography

• Bill Emerson biography

discography page

• Bill Emerson discography page
• Bill Emerson discography page

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• Bill Emerson discogs

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