Carl Story
Musician · b. 1916 · Lenoir, North Carolina
Carl Story was a North Carolina-born singer, guitarist, and bandleader whose Rambling Mountaineers, founded in 1934, became one of the most enduring acts in postwar country and bluegrass — dubbed "The Father of Bluegrass Gospel Music" and inducted into the IBMA Hall of Fame in 2007.
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- Born May 29, 1916 in Lenoir, North Carolina; died March 31, 1995 in Greenville, South Carolina.
- Dubbed "The Father of Bluegrass Gospel Music" by the governor of Oklahoma.
- Founded the Rambling Mountaineers in 1934 with Johnny Whisnant, Dudley Watson, and Ed McMahan.
- Briefly played fiddle in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in 1942, replacing Howdy Forrester, before returning to lead his own band.
- U.S. Navy service from October 1943 until his discharge in 1945.
- Recorded for ARC, Okeh, Mercury, Columbia, and a long Starday Records run from 1957–1975.
- Worked as a deejay at WFLW in Kentucky and WCKI in South Carolina; toured the U.S. and Europe from the 1960s onward.
- Inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2007 (posthumously).
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Carl Story and His Rambling MountaineersPlayed on recordings with Carl Story and His Rambling Mountaineers