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83: 176:". Uncle Charlie recorded two more albums with the label; his final was 1991's "One Hundred Years Farther On", which included the powerful and mournful mountain gospel song "Farther On," which Uncle Charlie called "As We Travel Through The Desert". Also featured on the recordings were his son, Johnny C. Osborne, on 143:
Uncle Charlie was blinded in his left eye at age 21 when he was shot in the head with a pistol that had been stolen from him. Beginning in the 1930s, he cut back his music and farmed a large farm near the Osborne Family Homeplace in
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was Uncle Charlie's "opening act". He was a regular performer at Mountain Empire Community College's annual Home Craft Days festivals from 1985 until his death. Other performances included the Brandywine Festival,
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came to his home and presented him with an award recognizing his contributions to Virginia life and culture. Also, in the mid eighties, he and his brother Emmett began playing heavily with their half-brother,
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recorded Uncle Charlie's first album, "Relics And Treasures". The album contained over a dozen traditional mountain songs, including "
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with his left hand, on a right-handed fiddle. He and his brother, Emmett Osborne, played on
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banjo, and Tommy Bledsoe, on guitar and banjo. These recordings were reissued by
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Uncle Charlie walked three miles every day from his house in rural
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Uncle Charlie played numerous shows at the Carter Family Fold in
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Blind But Now I See: The Biography of Music Legend Doc Watson
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as "Uncle Charlie Osborne: The June Appal Recordings."
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Charles Osborne (disambiguation)
Appalachian Mountains
Virginia
Copper Creek, Virginia
fiddle
WOPI
Bristol, Tennessee
Jimmie Rodgers
Carter Family
Tennessee Ernie Ford

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