Dale Sledd
Musician · 1937–2016 · Warsaw, Missouri
Best known for
Guitar
Dale Sledd was a Missouri-born guitarist and harmony singer who spent the late 1960s and 1970s as the guitar voice of the Osborne Brothers, contributing to the "Rocky Top" lineup before returning home to farm in his eighties.
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- Born April 23, 1937 in Benton County, Missouri; first played professionally at square dances starting in 1952.
- Moved to Nashville in 1965 and joined the Osborne Brothers, replacing Gordon Cash.
- Played guitar and sang the low tenor (third) part in the Osborne Brothers' signature inverted stacked-harmony trios.
- Performed and recorded with the Osborne Brothers from 1966 through 1977, appearing on hits including "Rocky Top," "Roll Muddy River," "Tennessee Hound Dog," "Ruby," "Georgia Piney Woods," and "Midnight Flyer."
- Co-wrote "Sledd Ridin'" and "Side Saddle" with Sonny Osborne, recorded by the band in August 1973.
- After the Osborne Brothers, played guitar with Grandpa and Ramona Jones; appeared in ten episodes of "Hee Haw" and performed at the Joneses' dinner theater in Mountain View, Arkansas.
- Returned to Warsaw, Missouri in 1984 to farm and raise cattle.
- Died August 21, 2016 in Warsaw, Missouri at age 79.
