The Fields Brothers

Bennie Areas (b. 22 January 1941, Kermit, Mingo Region, Western Virginia, USA; acoustic guitar, vocals) and his sibling Clancy (b. 11 Feb 1950, Kermit, Mingo Region, Western Virginia, USA; bass fiddle, acoustic guitar, mandolin, vocals). Influenced with a mandolin-playing uncle, Lundy Areas, Bennie started a singing profession at 12 and experienced his own music group at 18. In 1968, Clancy, the youngest of 12 Areas children, became a member of his sibling. In 1970, the Areas Brothers bluegrass music group, including Curtis Beck (fiddle, dobro) and banjoist Dave Clark, received a significant bluegrass event at Columbus, Ohio. They documented their first recording for the Jessup label in 1973 but on the next the next 12 months, Clark was changed by Tom Dew and Orville Dingess became a member of to try out bass. The materials was an assortment of self-penned tunes, old-time ballads and bluegrass figures. They proved extremely popular but disagreements noticed the band split up in the middle-70s. Clancy later on played with additional organizations including River Flex, a bluegrass music group led by Dave Evans, which also included his uncle Lundy.