WALTER HENSLEY

• From Baltimore, Maryland (Born in Grundy, Virginia).
• Called “The Banjo Baron of Baltimore.
• 1952, worked with Hobo Jack Adkins and the Kentucky Pals and filled in with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers.
• 1956, played in a rockabilly band The Black Mountain Boys.
• 1957, joined Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys.
• 1961, joined the Country Gentlemen.
• 1962, re-joined Earl Taylor.
• 1963, recorded an influential banjo album for Capitol Records “Five String Banjo Today.”
• 1980, formed his own band The Dukes of Bluegrass.
• 1990, worked with Vernon McIntyre’s Appalachian Grass.
• 1999, joined James Reams and the Barnstormers, which became “James Reams, Walter Hensley and the Barons of Bluegrass” in 2002.
• 2012, died at the age of 76.