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The Dixie Gentlemen were a bluegrass group from Alabama who had been active through the early-’60s folk revival. Herschel Sizemore (mandolin) and Rual Yarbrough (banjo) initial fulfilled in 1956 playing in an organization known as the Alabamians, and became a member of up with Sizemore’s friend, Jake Landers (electric guitar, …

An Alabama music group that was founded in 1956 and tended to specialise in the bluegrass music from the 60s as opposed to the early design of the pioneers from the genre. The initial three founding people had been Jake Landers (b. Jacob Landers, 14 August 1938, Lawrence State, Alabama, …