Wayne Yates
DOB Unknown – December 11, 2008
Wayne Yates was a respect bluegrass mandolin player who played with his brother, former Country Gentlemen picker , Bill Yates, as well as with Del McCoury and Red Allen. During the late ’50s, the Yates brothers formed the Clinch Mountain Ramblers who eventually added Allen who then took over the band and changed its name to the Kentuckians. Wayne went off on his own after recording two albums with the group. He was 75 when he passed away on December 11, 2008.