Carl Garvin

Musician

Karl Garvin, also credited as Carl Garvin, was a trumpeter on Nashville recording sessions in the 1960s. With Bill McElhiney he played the trumpet parts on Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” (1963). The two had played a similar trumpet part on Bob Moore’s 1962 instrumental hit “Mexico.”

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On 31 May 1960 he played trumpet for Mac Wiseman at Bradley Film & Recording Studio in Nashville, on “In the Sweet Bye and Bye” and “Let the Lower Lights Be Burning,” with Hank Garland, Harold Bradley, Buddy Harman, Hargus “Pig” Robbins and the Jordanaires; Dot issued both on Sings Best-Loved Gospel Hymns in 1961. He was one of two trumpets on Claude King’s “The Comancheros,” cut at the same studio on 1 September 1961, and on 1 March 1966, again with McElhiney, he played on a Willie Nelson session at RCA Victor’s Nashville studio that produced “San Antonio Rose” and “Columbus Stockade Blues.”

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