Ginger Boatwright
Ginger Boatwright (born Ginger Kay Hammond, September 21, 1944) is a bluegrass singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She was born in Columbus, Mississippi, raised in Pickens County, Alabama, and sang as a child with her father Hap Hammond’s band, the Magic Circle Ramblers. As a college student in Birmingham she formed Red, White & Blue(grass) with guitarist Grant Boatwright, whom she married. The group’s debut album, Pickin’ Up!, received a Grammy nomination, and Billboard named the band Most Promising Vocal Group in 1974. She also owned the Pickin’ Parlour, a Nashville music club, from 1972 to 1981. The band broke up in 1979, and the Boatwrights divorced. She then formed the all-woman band the Bushwhackers with banjo player Susie Monick, bassist April Barrows and fiddler and guitarist Ingrid Reese. The band released its debut album in 1980 and broke up in 1981. She then became lead singer of the Doug Dillard Band, whose 1988 album Heartbreak Hotel was nominated for a Grammy, and she worked with Dillard until his death in 2012. She released her first solo album, Fertile Ground, in 1991. Her gospel album Inside the Gate was John Hartford’s last recording. In the late 1990s she married C.C. “Buck” Kuhn, settled in south-central Alaska and formed the Sipsey River Band there. She was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 2010.
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