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Died On This Date (May 29, 2008) Herb Mayfield / Bluegrass Picker

Posted by themusicsover on May 29, 2010

Herb Mayfield
December 20, 1920 – May 29, 2008

Herb Mayfield was a guitar and mandolin picker who, along with his two brothers, made up the Mayfield Brothers, who made a name for themselves throughout Texas in the late ’40s.  They were generally chosen as opening acts for when such acts as Tennessee Ernie Ford, the Maddox Brothers, and Hank Snow came to Amarillo or Lubock.  Mayfield died of renal failure on May 29, 2008.

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