Slim Bryant obituary

US country musician and guitarist with the Georgia Wildcats Late in his life, Slim Bryant, who has died aged 101, became entitled to make two unique claims. He was the last man living to have played and recorded with Jimmie Rodgers, the Depression-era singer and "blue yodeller" who was the first star of country music. Furthermore, he was the only country musician left who had recorded as far back as the 1920s.Bryant was born, one of six brothers, in Atlanta, Georgia, which from the mid-1920s was...

Read full article Share article