Last month, I wrote about David "Stringbean" Akeman's life and murder. Here's a clip of Stringbean in action picking a song and a doing one of his trademark "letter from home" bits with host Del Reeves, who seems to be feeling no pain. Stringbean and his wife were murdered a few years later when they ambushed burglars after playing the Grand Ole Opry.
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