Larry McNeely

A talented session musician, Larry McNeely is best known for his work with Roy Acuff and Glen Campbell. A native of Lafayette, Indiana, he was born into a musical family, but didn't begin learning to play piano until he was 13. He then added guitar and banjo, and got his professional start at the age of 17 when he joined the Pinnacle Mountain Boys. In 1965, after moving to Nashville to work for the Sho-Bud Guitar Company (formed by Shot Jackson and Buddy Emmons), he met Acuff and joined his Smokey Mountain Boys. He remained with them through the decade's end and then moved to ...