A few years ago, at age 80, fiddle-playing legend Johnny Gimble backed Carrie Underwood during a Grammy Awards show performance, but young country fans who caught that performance might not realize ...

Renowned fiddler Johnny Gimble, who played with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys before gaining fame for his meticulous backup work with country stars including Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and Carrie ...

1 Perfect Weather For Humans to Release 'Come Apart In The Middle' Album, Debuts New Single The Country Music Association held a press conference this morning to announce the 2018 inductees into the ...

Johnny Gimble, the Texas musician whose smooth, buoyant fiddle added a musical grace to scores of country albums and propelled his own audience-pleasing career, died early Saturday in Marble Falls ...

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: The Texas Playboys are on the air. BOB WILLS: (Singing) Now, listen everybody from near and far, if you want to know who we are, we're the Texas Playboys from the Lone Star State.

DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas (AP) – Renowned fiddler Johnny Gimble, who gained fame for his backup work with country stars from Merle Haggard to Carrie Underwood, has died. He was 89. His daughter, Cyndy, ...

Johnny Gimble, the so-called "king of the swing fiddle," has toured with Willie Nelson and recorded tracks with Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Chet Atkins and Connie Smith. The 84-year-old ...

Johnny Gimble, one of the greatest and most influential fiddlers to ever pick up a bow, died Saturday morning in Dripping Springs, Texas, due to complications from several strokes he had suffered in ...

Fiddle player Johnny Gimble, whose pioneering style encompassed and influenced Western swing, jazz and country, died Saturday, May 9th, in Dripping Springs, Texas, following complications from several ...

Johnny Gimble, legendary Western Swing fiddle player, has died. Gimble passed away on Saturday (May 9), according to Nashville's Tennessean. No cause of death has been reported. He was 88. Born John ...