Randall Hylton

Bluegrass guitarist/composer Randall Hylton specialized in a fingerpicking design ? la Chet Atkins and Merle Travis, and was known to be able to immediately write songs from the cuff. While carrying out, Hylton would frequently function jokes and acoustic guitar methods into his take action. Furthermore, Hylton’s tunes (his best-known structure remains “Space near the top of the Stairways”) had been either performed or documented by a lot more than 150 performers, including such nation/bluegrass notables as Ralph Stanley and Vern Gosdin. Besides playing on additional performers’ recordings, Hylton released several single albums — 1989’s Music Begins THE FOLLOWING; 1996’s Pickin’ in the Parlor and Accurate Stories, Tall Stories & Lays; and 1998’s Like Tunes for Patricia. On March 19, 2001, Hylton passed away at age 55 from a mind aneurysm in Nashville, TN.