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.