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Hugh and Karl Farr were the main fiddle-and-guitar duo in the annals of nation & traditional western music, a group of sibling virtuosos who brought the vocabulary and dexterity of the greatest jazz in to the confines of nation and cowboy music for a lot more than 25 years. That …

b. Thomas Hubert Farr, 6 Dec 1903, Llano, Tx, USA, d. 17 March 1980. A significant person in the Sons FROM THE Pioneers. His dad performed fiddle and his mom guitar at regional venues with age seven, Hugh was playing electric guitar with his dad at such occasions. At nine, …

The Sons from the Pioneers were the foremost vocal and instrumental group in western music, as well as the definitive group focusing on cowboy songs, setting the typical for each group which has come since. These were also among the longest-surviving nation music vocal groupings in existence, entering their seventh …