American Made Music: Banjo on the Mountain: Wade Mainer's First Hundred Years (Paperback)

Wade Mainer (b.

1907) is believed to be the longest-lived country entertainer ever.

His banjo lessons began in childhood and he played informally into his adult years, when he joined his brother, fiddler J.

E.

Mainer (1898-1971), in Mainer's Mountaineers.

Music became their ticket out of the cotton mills in 1934.