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The first country singing team of Mac and Bob, full titles Lester McFarland and Robert Gardner, were blind music artists who met in the Kentucky School for the Blind in 1915. While with the capacity of playing several devices — Gardner performed piano professionally actually before Mac pc and Bob …

Leon Bibb was one of the most prominent African-American folksingers from the 1950s and early ’60s, and enjoyed a parallel profession as an acting professional aswell (sometimes beneath the name Lee Charles). Given birth to Charles Leon Arthello Bibb in Louisville, Kentucky in 1922, he was raised as an admirer …