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Allen Shelton
Allen Shelton is credited on 112 releases across 36 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2016 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
112
Pressings credited
36
Albums
7
Decades active
1
In collections
Biography
Allen Shelton was an American five-string banjo player mostly known for being a member of the bluegrass band Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys since the 1960s. Shelton was born in Rockingham County, North Carolina, on July 2, 1936. Shelton started playing the banjo when he was fourteen. His father Troy Shelton was a guitar player mainly, but also played mandolin and banjo. A local musician named Junior Biggs showed him some three-finger style rolls.
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Credited work
112 releases · 36 albums · active 1957–2016
- Other credits · 73
- Performance · 55
- Engineering · 1
Studios: Music Farm Studios · Fox Farm Recording · Nashville Sound Connection · House Of Cash Recording Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Jim & Jesse
- Jim & Jesse And The Virginia Boys
- Kenny Baker (4)
- Bullamakanka
- Lester Flatt And Earl Scruggs
- Jimmy Campbell (7)
- Mac Wiseman
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