Charlie Moore

Known as one of classic bluegrass music's most soulful vocalists, Charlie Moore also contributed the undying "Legend of the Rebel Soldier" to the genre's stock of songs known to all. Raised in Piedmont, SC, Moore learned guitar when he was young and heard mountain music on radio stations from Charlotte and Greenville. Landing a radio slot in Asheville, NC, in 1956 and starring in a short-lived television show in Spartanburg, SC, the following year, Moore cultivated a vocal style that perfectly blended the forceful nasal sound of Bill Monroe and other pioneers with a smoother, ...