Leonard Stokes

An old-time music frontman, Leonard Stokes recorded with Byron Parker & His Mountaineers in 1940, the music considered among the important tapestries of developing bluegrass parts to become preserved for posterity, and equivalent in worth to the 1st sides cut from the Monroe Brothers. He also performed mandolin, aswell as sang, using the rings of J.E. Mainer, a significant pre-bluegrass hill music family members dynasty. In 1937, Mainer created an organization with George Morris and Stokes, using the preposterous name of Good looking & Sambo. J. E. Mainer’s Mountaineers was the grand music group that eventually created out of this, as brothers from the many families became a member of in, such as for example banjo wizard Wade Mainer and the beautiful Zeke Morris. This music group charged towards the forefront in the changeover between old-time string music group music towards the excitement from the bluegrass designs which developed following the Second Globe War. Stokes continues to be confused using the Broadway vocalist from the same name who made an appearance in shows such as for example Annie GET THE Gun! The visual designer Leonard Stokes was also attracted in to the whirlwind of discographical misunderstandings when he do some function for a fresh Lost Town Ramblers Compact disc reissue in the past due ’90s; the bond with old-time music was more than enough to create some discographers believe the old-time vocalist have been reincarnated being a computer images dude.