Lessie Lyle
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Songwriter
Lessie Lyle was an American songwriter who co-wrote “Unfaithful One” with the western-swing fiddler Cliff Bruner — a Texas dance-band song that later crossed into the bluegrass repertoire and stayed there.
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- Wrote “Unfaithful One” with Cliff Bruner, the fiddler and bandleader who led the Texas Wanderers through the western-swing era.
- Cliff Bruner and His Texas Wanderers introduced the song on record in 1949.
- Reno & Smiley brought it into bluegrass on Wanted (1961).
- Later recordings came from Ted Lundy, Bob Paisley and the Southern Mountain Boys (1978), the Bluegrass Album Band on Vol. 3: California Connection (1983), and Bill Grant and Delia Bell (1988).
