1. In 1930, a young Jack Anglin moved off the family farm to Nashville, Tennessee in hopes of pursuing his dreams of becoming a musician.
12 Facts About Jack Anglin
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Around the time the brotherly band separated, Jack Anglin worked at a local hosiery mill and became acquainted with his future wife, Louise; and through her, her brother, Johnnie Wright.
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Johnnie and Jack Anglin shared a connection much stronger than a shared birth date.
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Jack Anglin played the rhythm guitar and tenor vocals, while Wright took the lead.
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Jack Anglin impressed audiences with his incorporation of the gourd as a musical instrument in some of their songs.
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Johnnie and Jack Anglin toured locally around Tennessee until 1940 when they decided to take their show on the road.
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Jack Anglin went back to Nashville and began performing at the Grand Ole Opry as part of Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys band.
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Anglin played with the band for six months before World War II broke out, and Jack decided to enlist in the United States Army.
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On March 8,1963, Jack Anglin veered off New Due West Avenue, down a ditch twelve foot deep into a tree in Madison, Tennessee.
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Jack Anglin's death was a blow to the country music community.
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Jack Anglin was buried in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, in the same cemetery as Cowboy Copas.
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Jack Anglin left behind his young son Terry and wife Louise.