Jackie Phelps
Musician · 1925–1990
Best known for
Guitar
Jackie Phelps was an American guitarist, a Grand Ole Opry musician and a longtime cast member of the television show “Hee Haw.”
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- Born Claude Jackson Phelps in 1925.
- Was a guitarist in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in the late 1940s, alongside the banjo player Don Reno, and returned to the band in 1954.
- Also played with Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys.
- Was a regular cast member of “Hee Haw,” known for a hand-clapping and “eephing” novelty act with Jimmy Riddle.
- Died in 1990.
