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Light Crust Doughboys
Light Crust Doughboys
American band
1
Red Murrell
Red Murrell
American musician
2
Milton Brown
Milton Brown
American musician
3
Cliff Bruner
Cliff Bruner
American musician
4
Bill Boyd
Bill Boyd
American actor and singer (1910-1977)
5
Johnny Bush
Johnny Bush
American musician
6
Bob Wills
Bob Wills
American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader (1905-1975)
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Leon McAuliffe
Leon McAuliffe
American musician
8
Tommy Duncan
Tommy Duncan
American musician
9
Adolph Hofner
Adolph Hofner
American musician
10
Mack Magaha
Mack Magaha
American musician
11
Johnny Gimble
Johnny Gimble
American musician
12
Hank Penny
Hank Penny
American musician
13
Bill Monroe
Bill Monroe
American bluegrass musician, songwriter
14
Knocky Parker
Knocky Parker
American musician
15
Eck Robertson
Eck Robertson
American old-time fiddler player
16
Bob Dunn
Bob Dunn
American musician
17
Fiddlin' John Carson
Fiddlin' John Carson
American musician
18
Charlie Poole
Charlie Poole
American musician
19
Doug Sahm
Doug Sahm
American country music and blues rock musician
20
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
American blues musician
21
The Quebe Sisters Band
The Quebe Sisters Band
22
Hoot Hester
Hoot Hester
musician
23
Hank Thompson
Hank Thompson
American country musician
24
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings
American country music singer, songwriter, and musician (1937-2002)
25
Vassar Clements
Vassar Clements
American musician
26
Albert Collins
Albert Collins
American blues musician, recording artist, songwriter
27
Merle Travis
Merle Travis
American country/Western singer-songwriter and musician
28
Leo Soileau
Leo Soileau
American musician
29
Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson
American country music singer-songwriter
30
Buddy Spicher
Buddy Spicher
American fiddler
31
Ronnie Dawson
Ronnie Dawson
American musician
32
The Duhks
The Duhks
Folk band
33
Roy Clark
Roy Clark
American multi-instrumentalist musician
34
Pee Wee King
Pee Wee King
country musician and songwriter
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Cecil Lee Brower (November 28, 1914 – November 21, 1965) was a classically trained American jazz violinist who became an architect of Western swing in the 1930s. Perhaps the greatest swing fiddler, he could improvise as well as double shuffle and created his own style which became the benchmark for his contemporaries.

Brower played in many Western bands, including his own, and was a renowned Nashville session musician. He performed with some of the biggest names in country music until his death at age 50 while a member of Jimmy Dean's band. Brower is a member of the Texas Music Hall of Fame.