Wade Mainer, 104, a show-stopping banjo player from North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains who was a vital link in the evolution of bluegrass music, died Sept. 12 at his home in Flint, Mich. He had congestive heart failure.
The death was confirmed by radio host and Mainer biographer Dick Spottswood.
Mr. Mainer, widely known as the grandfather of bluegrass, was one of the last of a generation of rural string-band musicians who recorded during the Depression. Because of his prolific career on radio, disc and stage, he earned an invitation to the White House to play for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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