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| - American country singer-songwriters
- American country singers
- 20th-century American singers
- American male singer-songwriters
- Singers from Kentucky
- Songwriters from Kentucky
- 1989 deaths
- American folk singers
- Country musicians from Kentucky
- Folk musicians from Kentucky
- Gennett Records artists
- Grand Ole Opry members
- People from Springfield, Ohio
- 1895 births
- People from Garrard County, Kentucky
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| - An American folk singer, guitarist, songwriter of folk and country music tunes, and radio entertainer, born July 13, 1895 in Point Leavell, Kentucky. He built a music career in the northern states. His first radio appearance came in 1926 when he performed on the National Barn Dance show on %22WLS%22 in Chicago, Illinois. On the %22Supertone%22 label he was credited as an exclusive %22WLS Artist%22.In 1935 he was working at WBZ in Boston, Massachusetts where he performed with a band that included young singer and banjo player Marshall Jones. Kincaid teased the 22-year old fellow Kentuckian for always being grumpy when he came to the studio to do the early morning broadcast, nicknaming him %22Grandpa%22 Jones. The moniker became permanent for the future %22Grand Ole Opry%22 star. Kincaid moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1945 where he too became a member of the %22Grand Ole Opry%22. In 1971, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.died September 23, 1989.
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| - William Bradley Kincaid (July 13, 1895 – September 23, 1989) was an American folk singer and radio entertainer.He was born in Point Level, Garrard County, Kentucky but built a music career in the northern states. His first radio appearance came in 1926 when he performed on the National Barn Dance show on WLS-AM in Chicago, Illinois. A prolific composer of folk and country music tunes, the first edition of his 1928 songbook called My Favorite Mountain Ballads sold more than 100,000 copies; later editions brought the total to 400,000. He recorded on Gennett Records.In 1935 he was working at WBZ-AM in Boston, Massachusetts where he performed with a band that included young singer and banjo player Marshall Jones. Kincaid teased the 22-year-old fellow Kentuckian for always being grumpy when he came to the studio to do the early morning broadcast, nicknaming him %22Grandpa%22 Jones. The moniker became permanent for the future Grand Ole Opry star.Kincaid moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1945 where he too became a member of the Grand Ole Opry.In 1971, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.In 1988, the then-93-year-old Kincaid was involved in an automobile accident and sustained injuries from which he never fully recovered. He died in 1989 at the age of 94 in Springfield, Ohio and was interred there in the Ferncliff Cemetery.
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| - Kincaid
- B. Kincaid
- B. Kinkaid
- Bradley Kincaid %22The Kentucky Mountain Boy%22
- Bradley Kincaid (W L S Artist)
- Bradley Kinkaid
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| - Conqueror
- Bluebird Records
- Supertone Records
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