Gene Wooten
Gene Wooten (June 5, 1953 – November 7, 2001) was an American Dobro player from Franklinton, North Carolina, who moved to Nashville in 1977 to play with Wilma Lee Cooper and soon became a regular on the Grand Ole Opry. He toured and recorded with the Osborne Brothers, Country Gazette, and Del and Ronnie McCoury. For more than ten years he was a member of the Sidemen, the house band at the Station Inn. One of his last recordings was Patty Loveless's Mountain Soul. He died of lung cancer at 48.