Bradley Kincaid

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Bradley Kincaid
Birth nameWilliam Bradley Kincaid
Born(1895-07-13)July 13, 1895
Point Leavell, Garrard County, Kentucky, United States
DiedSeptember 23, 1989(1989-09-23) (aged 94)
Springfield, Ohio, United States
GenresFolk
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • composer
  • musician
  • radio entertainer

William Bradley Kincaid (July 13, 1895 – September 23, 1989) was an American

folk singer and radio entertainer.[1]

Biography

He was born in

Chicago, Illinois. A prolific composer of folk and country music tunes, the first edition of his 1928 songbook called My Favorite Mountain Ballads sold more than 100,000 copies;[1] later editions brought the total to 400,000. He recorded on Gennett Records.[2]

In 1935

Boston, Massachusetts, where he performed with a band that included young singer and banjo player Marshall Jones. Kincaid teased the 22-year-old fellow Kentuckian for always being grumpy when he came to the studio to do the early morning broadcast, nicknaming him "Grandpa" Jones. The moniker became permanent for the future Grand Ole Opry star.[1]

Kincaid moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1945 where he too became a member of the Grand Ole Opry.[1][4]

In 1971, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.[1]

In 1988, the then-93-year-old Kincaid was involved in an automobile accident and sustained injuries from which he never fully recovered.[5] He died in 1989 at the age of 94 in Springfield, Ohio[1] and was interred there in the Ferncliff Cemetery.

Old Homestead Records released several volumes of Kincaid's mountain ballads, hymns, and old-time songs.[6]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f Bradley Kincaid Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Nashville Songwriters Foundation Hall of Fame. Accessed July 4, 2012.
  2. ISBN 0-674-01344-1
    (paper). p. 157.
  3. ^ "Flashback: The 'Opry' Gets A Grandpa", Country Weekly, March 2004. Quoted in part on FindArticles.com. Accessed online 25 August 2007.
  4. ^ "Opry Timeline - 1940s". Grand Ole Opry. Archived from the original on March 17, 2017. Retrieved July 5, 2012.
  5. ^ Loyal Jones, "Radio's Kentucky Mountain Boy" (1988 Edition), Berea College Appalachian Center, Berea, KY.
  6. ^ Cohen, Norm (1994). Traditional Anglo-American Folk Music: An Annotated Discography of Published Sound Recordings (1 ed.). Garland Pub. Retrieved August 16, 2017.

External links

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