Deep River
Released on Deep River (1968)
Covered by
(5 artists)
- Aliases
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Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie
Bill Emerson and The Sweet Dixie Band
Bill H. Emerson
- Real name
- William Hundley Emerson, Jr.
- Born
- January 22, 1938
- Died
- August 21, 2021
- Country
- United States
- IPI
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00009270303 5 works
00065435377 3 works
- Affiliation
- BMI
- Comments
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Highly-regarded bluegrass five-string banjo player, singer, and songwriter born in Washington, D.C.
Not to be confused with another country musician often credited as Bill Emerson, Wild Bill Emerson, and who was born in the same year. "Wild Bill" is the person who wrote the non-bluegrass country songs for people like George Jones and Hank Williams, Jr. Bluegrass Bill Emerson only composed bluegrass songs. - Member of
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The Country Gentlemen
- Not to be confused with
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Wild Bill Emerson
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