1. Walter Louis Garland, known professionally as Hank Garland, was an American guitarist and songwriter.
11 Facts About Hank Garland
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Hank Garland started as a country musician, played rock and roll as it became popular in the 1950s, and released a jazz album in 1960.
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Hank Garland's career was cut short when a car accident in 1961 left him unable to perform.
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Hank Garland moved to Nashville at age 16, staying in Ma Upchurch's boarding house, where he roomed with Bob Moore and Dale Potter.
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Hank Garland appeared on the Jubilee program with Grady Martin's band and on The Eddy Arnold Show.
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Hank Garland worked with many country music and rock and roll musicians of the late 1950s and early 1960s, such as Patsy Cline, Brenda Lee, Mel Tillis, Marty Robbins, The Everly Brothers, Boots Randolph, Roy Orbison, Conway Twitty, and Moon Mullican.
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Hank Garland played with George Shearing and Charlie Parker in New York and went on to record Jazz Winds from a New Direction with Gary Burton on vibraphone, Joe Benjamin on double bass, and Joe Morello on drums.
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Hank Garland regained consciousness and recovered with the help of his wife, Evelyn, and two daughters, but due to a brain injury sustained in the car accident, he was unable to return to the studios.
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Hank Garland then went to live with his brother, Billy and wife Amy.
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Hank Garland suffered from constant ill health in his later years and died in Orange Park, Florida on December 27,2004, of complications from a staph infection.
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Hank Garland is interred in Jacksonville Memory Gardens in Orange Park.