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CLARK, ROY

(*1933)

CLARK, ROY (b. R. Linwood C., Meherrin, Va., April 15, 1933) If ever a musician defined pickin' and grinnin', it is the affable Roy Clark , a talented stringbender and star of the oft-maligned country-corn TV show HEE HAW. Despite his considerable skills as a guitarist and banjo player, Clark does not have a definitive style of his own, perhaps because he spent his formative years as a session player. Clark's father was a tobacco farmer who moved his family to Washington, D.C., when his son was…

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