Buck Trent

Charles Wilburn "Buck" Trent is an American country music instrumentalist. He invented the electric Banjo and also plays the 5-string Banjo, Dobro, Steel Guitar, Mandolin, Electric Bass and Guitar. Born and raised in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Buck started performing on WORD Radio at the age of 10. He travelled to California and Texas, finally arriving in Nashville in 1959 where he joined the Bill Carlisle Show and first appeared on the Grand Ole Opry. He was a member of Porter Wagoner's, Wagon Masters from 1962 to 1973 and also appeared on the Roy Clark Show and Hee Haw.

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He currently appears regularly in Branson, Missouri, performing a breakfast show at the Grand Country Music Hall.

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American: :This page disambiguates the many uses of American. For an article about those various uses, please see Use of the word American....

Country music: Country music, also called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, spirituals, and the blues....

Banjo: The banjo is a stringed instrument, derived from the "banjar", a stringed instrument of American origins, sometimes called the "gourd banjo". The banjar, in turn was based on the African "akonting". Some etymologists derive it from a dialectal pronunciation of "bandore", though recent research sugg...

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