Born in Tyler, Texas fiddler Johnny Gimble lived in Dallas in the 50s and was a regular on the radio show The Big D Jamboree.“The message in our kind of music is ‘Have a good time,’” the late Texas fiddler Johnny Gimble once said. “Even if you’re doing a brokenhearted song, you can’t help but play it with a happy beat.”on May 17. Cut mostly in North Dallas at the legendary Sumet-Bernet studio, eight years after the Rolling Stones recorded there,also features tunes performed live on KRLD radio.
He later moved to Nashville and Waco, recorded with a slew of country legends, and helped launch Willie Nelson’s career He was a fine singer and mandolin player — and part-time barber, too — but he’s best known for his virtuosic fiddle playing, especially with Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, who hired him in 1949.“It was the thrill of my life, like going to the New York Yankees if you were a ballplayer,” he says in.