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| | Bluegrass Guitarist PRICE, BILL (1934-2000)
Raised on a farm in Union County, North Carolina. In 1954, he got the chance to sing and play guitar with Bill. He stayed with the Blue Grass Boys for five months, then went with Jimmy Martin to WPFB in Middletown, where he played mandolin. When Jimmy moved on, Bill got a job at the Jimmie Skinner Music Center in Cincinnati. In 1955, he formed the Country Pardners with Carlos Brock, Bobby Simpson, and Benny Williams, and recorded six sides for RCA. After Carlos Brock joined the Army, Bill went with Bill Monroe again for a few months and then returned to North Carolina. He began playing both bluegrass and country and, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he recorded for “D” Records out of Houston, Texas. Although the records were straight country. Price recorded several further bluegrass albums for Folkways before his death.
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