Wade
Mainer, a country music pioneer who is credited with inventing the
two-finger banjo picking style that paved the way for the Bluegrass era,
has died. He was 104. Mainer died at his home in Flint Township,
Michigan. He was a member of late brother J.E. Mainer’s Mountaineers,
one of the most popular sibling duos of the 1930s. He made recordings
for all the major labels of the day, including RCA in 1935.
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