Will Parsons

Musician · Cross Lanes, West Virginia
Best known for Banjo

Will Parsons is a banjo player and instrument builder from Cross Lanes, West Virginia. He built his own banjo in 1987, while in college in Berea, Kentucky. In 1990 he and his wife opened an instrument repair shop in Berea, which later moved to West Virginia.

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He performed with Strings Attached and with the Charlie Sizemore Band. On Sizemore’s In My View (Rebel, 1996) he played banjo, sang the low harmony and played guitar on one track. The band on that album was Danny Barnes on mandolin, Rickie Simpkins on fiddle, Jimmy Stewart on dobro and John Berry on bass.

He produced the Abrams Brothers’ Iron Sharpens Iron (2006) and played banjo and mandolin on it. Later he played banjo on the Wooks’ Glory Bound (2018) and on the Local Honeys’ album The Gospel.

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