Clyde Williamson
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Songwriter
Clyde Williamson was a bluegrass guitarist and songwriter who played in Vern & Ray and the Carroll County Boys, the California band that carried an Arkansas-bred traditional sound to the West Coast, and co-wrote “Cabin on a Mountain.”
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- Played in Vern & Ray and the Carroll County Boys alongside Vern Williams, Ray Park, and Luther Riley.
- Wrote “Cabin on a Mountain” with Cal Veale.
- Vern & Ray introduced the song on record in 1962.
- Del McCoury and the Dixie Pals cut it on their 1975 album and made it a standard of their working sets.
- Later recordings came from the Vern Williams Band (1981), Country Gazette (1991), Becky Buller (2004), and Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass (2012).
