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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. Karl Marx Farr, 25 Apr 1909, Rochele, Tx, USA, d. 20 Sept 1961. A significant person in the Sons FROM THE Pioneers. Younger sibling of Hugh Farr, he was raised inside a musical environment so that as a child performed local venues along with his brothers, Hugh and Glen. …

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, …