Joe Maphis
Otis Wilson "Joe" Maphis ( MAY-fis; May 12, 1921 – June 27, 1986), was an American country music guitarist. He married singer Rose Lee Maphis in 1953 and they performed together. One of the flashiest country guitarists of the 1950s and 1960s, Joe Maphis was known as "The King of the Strings".
Genre: traditional-bluegrass, western-swing
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Top Tracks
- Foggy Mountain Breakdown
- Memories of Maybelle
- Life's Railway to Heaven
- Night Train to Memphis
- Maple on the Hill
- Devil's Dream
- Me and Ol' Merle
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Orange Blossom Special
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken
- I'm Gonna Wear The Pants
- Dueling Banjos
- Lonesome Road Blues
- Black Mountain Rag
- Nine Pound Hammer
- Whitehouse Blues
- Orange Blossom Special
- Tenbrooks and Molly
- Guitar Rock And Roll
- Bye, Bye
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