Cliff Carnahan
Musician · Louisiana
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Songwriter
Cliff Carnahan was a Louisiana-based bluegrass fiddler and songwriter best remembered for “Ocean of Diamonds,” the heart-song Jimmy Martin introduced on Decca in 1958 and that the Bluegrass Album Band, Willie Nelson, and Roland White have since carried into the modern bluegrass repertoire.
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- Worked the Louisiana bluegrass and country circuit as a fiddler.
- Wrote “Ocean of Diamonds.”
- Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys introduced the song on Decca in 1958.
- The song has since been recorded by the Bluegrass Album Band (1982), Willie Nelson, Roland White, Bill Keith & Jim Rooney, and many other bluegrass acts.
