Frank Buchanan
Franklin Glenn "Frank" Buchanan (March 25, 1934 – July 4, 2012) was an American bluegrass guitarist, mandolinist, and singer from near Penland, in Mitchell County, North Carolina. With his brother Ray he played his first shows as the Buchanan Brothers at Cal Calhoun's Carolina Barn Dance in Spruce Pine, and he later played on the Dominion Barn Dance in Richmond, where he met Bill Monroe. He joined the Blue Grass Boys in fall 1960 and recorded 18 songs with Monroe for Decca in 1962, singing lead on "Blue Ridge Mountain Blues." He later worked with Raymond Fairchild, Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, Jimmy Dickens, Porter Wagoner, and the Shuffler brothers, and wrote "Maggie Valley Waltz."
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- No. 18 Winter 1999