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Howard Vokes

b. 13 June 1931, Clearfield, Pa, USA. Among the 13 kids of the coalminer, Vokes possessed his first electric guitar by enough time he was eight. At age 15, influenced with the recordings he heard about Roy Acuff and Jimmie Rodgers and by radio broadcasts from the Grand Ole Opry, …

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