LAWSON, DOYLE
(*1944)
LAWSON, DOYLE (b. D. Wayne L., Kingsport, Tenn., April 20, 1944) A MANDOLIN player and vocalist, Lawson has established a strong reputation leading his progressive BLUE-GRASS group, Quicksilver. Lawson's father was a GOSPEL singer who encouraged his young son to sing and play music. The family relocated to Sneedville, Tennessee, when Doyle was nine, and there he befriended a neighbor, JIMMY MARTIN , the great bluegrass guitarist/vocalist. Lawson's first love was the mandolin, but he also…