Gary Strong

Fronting bluegrass bands and doing bluegrass radio deejay shows around Cincinnati, northern Kentucky, and central Kentucky since the 1970s. He plays guitar and sings lead. Early on, he called his band the Licking Valley Boys and later changed it to Hard Times. He recorded LPs on Programme Audio, Old Homestead, and Central. He had deejay shows on WAIF in Cincinnati, WCYO in Richmond, Kentucky, and WOBO in Batavia. In 2016, he is the station manager at WOBO.