Bud Brewster
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Bud Brewster, the youngest member of Knoxville, TN's musical Brewster Brothers, Started out as a guitarist and bassist, growing up in a home in which his two oldest brothers, Ray and Will G. Brewster, were coming and going constantly, living the life of touring musicians. Took lessons from local player Joe Stuart and had been doing gigs in Pennsylvania on banjo as a sideman for bandleader Charlie Bailey. Membership in the Brewster Brothers band would be his most prominent engagement. The Brewster Brothers collaborated with the members of the Bailey Brothers group, as well as with country singer Carl Story. The brothers began working under the name of the Brewster Brothers & the Smoky Mountain Hillbillies, broadcasting over the Scottsboro, AL, radio station WROS, then to a bigger station up the road in Birmingham, followed by a stint back north in Virginia. The association with Cas Walker continued for practically two more decades. They were doing three radio shows and a pair of television slots each day, beginning at 5:30 a.m., and of course they had probably played a late-night show the evening before. Walker was employing more than a dozen bluegrass pickers, who sometimes teamed up in various ad hoc combos; the brothers toured with artists such as mandolinist Red Rector and mainstream country star Carl Story throughout the '50s and '60s. Both brothers were part of recording teams Story put together for Mercury and Starday sessions, as well as cutting regional sides. At one time, Bud Brewster said they had cut more than 300 sides with Story. Some of these tracks represented a kind of melding of bluegrass and country, bringing in the sounds of pedal steel and electric guitar. Sidemen such as bassist Ray Rose and fiddler Jerry Moore continued to collaborate with the brothers over the years. In the '70s, Bud Brewster became a member of a bluegrass band called the Pinnacle Boys with both Rose and Moore. With membership changing from time to time, this became a long- running group. By the mid-'90s, the membership had evolved into the Knoxville Bluegrass Band featuring players such as Allen Collins on bass, Byron Doss on fiddle, Larry Mathis on banjo, and Jim Smith and Brewster back on guitar and vocals.
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