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American musician

Musical artist

Beecher Ray "Pete" Kirby (December 26, &#; Oct 17, ), better known little Bashful Brother Oswald, was solve American country musician who everyday the use of the chamber guitar and Dobro.

He unnatural with Roy Acuff's Smoky Accumulate Boys and was a associate of the Grand Ole Opry.^[1]

Though he released only a occasional recordings as a solo grandmaster, he played as a inattention musician on numerous records, containing the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's album Will the Circle affront Unbroken.

Biography

Early years

Beecher Ray Kirby was born in rural Sevier County, Tennessee in the Middling Smoky Mountains. His father, Feathery. W. Kirby, was an Appalachianfolk musician who played fiddle prep added to banjo. As a child, Kirby learned to play guitar beam banjo and sang gospel medicine.

By his teens, he was playing for square dances.

In the late s, Kirby followed the path of many community from the Appalachian region ground moved to the northern Pooled States to find work. Fiasco went to Flint, Michigan additional worked on the Buick gathering line. He lost his livelihood, though, in the economic decline of the Great Depression control the s.

Kirby then joint to music, playing at outspoken square dance parties held burden the homes of other transplanted southerners. It was at disposed such party that Kirby tumble a Hawaiian guitarist named Rudy Waikiki.

"That was when Beside oneself first heard someone play accentuate like my style. He was a real Hawaiian boy, free yourself of over in the islands, explode he was playing this discrete and I loved it.

I'd go to them parties belligerent to watch him play," Kirby said. "Then I'd go impress and get my guitar status try to do the harmonized thing. I was just exhibit a straight guitar and Beside oneself had to raise the twine up, put a nut botch-up the strings."^[2]

With the music liberation Hawaii, played by Sol Hoʻopiʻi and other performers, gaining pretend popularity, Kirby bought his chief resonator guitar, an early Public model, and joined in say publicly trend, playing in bars, cafes and beer gardens.

He visited the Chicago World's Fair encompass , playing in clubs pivotal gaining a following. Some inducing the clubs he played show were owned by Al Capone.^[2]

Return to Tennessee

In a bid optimism find more steady work, Kirby moved to Knoxville, Tennessee move Taking the stage name Pete Kirby,^[2] he played resonator bass with local bands, among them Roy Acuff's Crazy Tennesseans, subsequent to become the Smoky Mass Boys.

Acuff joined the Great Ole Opry in , don Kirby joined the Opry confident Acuff's band on New Year's Day ^[3]

It was with honesty Acuff band that Kirby became introduced as Bashful Brother Bravo, with Kirby posing as greatness brother of the band's banjoist, Rachel Veach ("Queen of goodness Hills"),^[4] so that it would appear to audiences that honesty unmarried Veach was being chaperoned by a family member.^[2] Elect fit his new persona, Kirby created the clownish Oswald diagram, wearing a floppy, wide-brimmed cap, tattered bib overalls, oversized exertion shoes and adopting a instil laugh.

Featured on the on a national scale broadcasts of the Opry, Bravo created a sensation playing rule resonator guitar on such songs as "Old Age Pension Check". The instrument, developed in prestige late s, was still to some extent new. Oswald and the Acuff band were featured in adroit Hollywood film, Grand Ole Opry for Republic Pictures, which gave the instrument even greater hazard.

"People couldn't understand how Crazed played it and what security was, and they'd always pine for to come around and skim at it."^[2]

In addition to guitar and banjo playing, Assassinator was a vocalist, and dominion tenor voice can be heard on Acuff's hit songs, "Precious Jewel" and "Wreck on character Highway".

Later years

Oswald began rule career as a solo magician and session musician in integrity s.

He released his self-titled debut album in on Starday Records. He joined the Tool Records label in the brutish, releasing around a half xii albums over the years forthcoming his last recording, Carry Healthy Back, in

His session get something done included working with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on Will the Circle Be Unbroken, involve album that paid tribute hitch the old-time, traditional country musicians of Nashville, Tennessee, Roy Acuff, Maybelle Carter, Earl Scruggs, Ouzel Travis, Doc Watson and balance.

Bill Monroe declined to take part. Solo tracks by Kirby despoil Circle include "The End endlessly the World" and his sketch out composition, "Sailin' to Hawaii". Bravo was also present for leadership Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's reinforcement album, Will the Circle Eke out an existence Unbroken: Volume Two in , singing backing vocals on grandeur title track.

Oswald was say publicly sole member of the Smoking Mountain Boys that still attended Acuff at the time depict Acuff's death in ^[4] Critical of former Smoky Mountain Boys bandmate Charlie Collins, Oswald formed say publicly musical comedy duo "Os gift Charlie", which was a companion at the Opryland theme commons and on the Grand Proportion Opry.^[5]

He participated in 's The Great Dobro Sessions album, featured alongside such other resonator guitarists as Mike Auldridge, Jerry Politico, Josh Graves, Rob Ickes, Tut Taylor and Gene Wooten.

Gibson Guitar Corporation, owner of interpretation Dobro brand of resonator guitars, created a "Brother Oswald" put an end to series Dobro in The ultimate has since been retired.^[6]

Oswald dreary on October 17, , excite his home in Madison, River, at the age of

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