Bill Carver

Musician
Best known for Dobro

Bill Carver played dobro, steel guitar, mandolin and fiddle with Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper. He is on their records from their first sessions in 1947 to 1950, and again from 1972 to 1976.

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Carver played steel, dobro and mandolin on the Coopers’ 1947 recordings for Rich-R-Tone, made at radio station WWNC in Asheville, North Carolina. He was on dobro at their April 1949 sessions at Castle Studio in Nashville, and on dobro and fiddle at a February 1950 session at Columbia’s studio in New York. He played with the Clinch Mountain Clan at Castle Studio again in December 1950.

He was back with the Coopers by October 1972, playing dobro at Woodland Sound Studio in Nashville, and again in December 1973 at L.S.I. Recording Studio. At the April 1976 sessions at the Gusto studio in Nashville he played dobro and mandolin. Those recordings made up their Rounder album Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, released that year.

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