Legendary fiddle player Johnny Gimble has passed away. Nashville's Tennessean newspaper reports the influential Western Swing musician died on Saturday (May 9), just weeks before his 89th birthday.

Fiddle player Johnny Gimble, whose pioneering style encompassed and influenced Western swing, jazz and country, died Saturday, May 9th, in Dripping Springs, Texas, following complications from several ...

Raised in Texas blues country, in a house full of music, the son of Houston saxophonist and bandleader, Maynard Gimble, he began to reveal his budding talent at the age of four. But, despite his early ...

Johnny Gimble, legendary Western Swing fiddle player, has died. Gimble passed away on Saturday (May 9), according to Nashville's Tennessean. No cause of death has been reported. He was 88. Born John ...

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Johnny Gimble, the so-called "king of the swing fiddle," has toured with Willie Nelson and recorded tracks with Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Chet Atkins and Connie Smith. The 84-year-old ...

Johnny Gimble, one of the greatest and most influential fiddlers to ever pick up a bow, died Saturday morning in Dripping Springs, Texas, due to complications from several strokes he had suffered in ...

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