Chubby Anthony

b. Donald Lee Anthony, 20 December 1935, Lincolnton, North Carolina, USA, d. 5 February 1980, Willborn, Florida, USA. Anthony was a talented bluegrass musician who learned fiddle, banjo and guitar as a child. By his teens he was playing fiddle regularly with various groups in the Shelby area of North Carolina. In the mid-50s, he was appearing on a daily television show in Asheville as part of Cousin Wilbur's band. In 1956, he became one of the Stanley Brothers Clinch Mountain Boys and recorded with them in Nashville in 1956/7. He relocated to Florida with the Stanleys, making ...