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Wakefieldb resulted in some successful recordings and national television appearances. In addition to his mandolin playing, Wakefield's southern-accented lead and harmony vocals lent a distinctively rural sound to the Greenbriar Boys. Wakefield was also responsible for bringing young Kentucky-born guitarist and lead singer, Joe Isaacs, into the group by 1968. The Greenbriar Boys disbanded in 1970 as Wakefield launched what was to become a successful solo career. The Greenbriar Boys reunited occasionally in later years. John Herald released albums with The John Herald Band and a solo album, in 2000,
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Records. Wakefield's arrival therefore brought some welcome southern appalachian authenticity to what until then was a northern, urban and folkish-oriented group. Over the next four years, the close friendship and musical collaboration between John Herald, Bob Yellin, Jim Buchanan and Frank
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and Red Allen and the Kentuckians. He had made a Carnegie Hall appearance with Allen, had done guest spots on various TV programs and had appeared on dozens of records, including the first-ever all-bluegrass album produced by
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who, at the age of 31, was already a leading figure in bluegrass music, having performed since the age of 16 with such bluegrass stars as
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which now bears his name. Rinzler was replaced in 1965 by the Tennessee-born mandolin virtuoso
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By the last album, Rinzler had left to become director of the folklife area at the
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competition, where Yellin also took top honors for banjo.
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in 1963 for Elektra (with Dián James, died 18 May 2006),
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They were credited as guest artists on two tracks from
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scene and became the first Northern group to win the
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in 1966 (with the additions of mandolinist/vocalist
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