Bobby Lee Trammell
Musical Artist
1934 – 2008
Who was Bobby Lee Trammell?
Bobby Lee Trammell was an American rockabilly singer and politician.
Trammell was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas to Wiley and Mae Trammell, who were cotton farmers. Wiley played fiddle and Mae was an organist at a local church; in addition to these influences, Trammell also listened to the Grand Ole Opry and attended services at the local Pentecostal church, where gospel music was sung.
As a high schooler, Trammell played country music, and when Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash toured in Trammell's area in the middle of the 1950s, Perkins invited him to sing a song and told him to talk to Sam Phillips, owner of Sun Records. The meeting came to nothing, but Trammell moved to Long Beach, California soon after in hopes of landing a recording contract. While in California, he took a job in a Ford manufacturing plant. He saw Bobby Bare play at a carnival and convinced Bare to let him come on stage for a few songs. Lefty Frizzell, who was in attendance at the fair, asked him to open for a show at the Jubilee Ballroom, a venue in Baldwin Park, California.
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- Born
- Jan 31, 1934
Jonesboro - Also known as
- Bobby Lee Trammel
- Trammell, Bobby Lee
- Lived in
- Jonesboro
- Died
- Feb 20, 2008
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on July 23, 2013
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