John Duffey

John Humbird Duffey Jr. (March 4, 1934 – December 10, 1996) was a Washington D.C. based bluegrass musician.
Duffey was born in Washington, D.C., and lived nearly all his life in the Washington D.C. area. He graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in suburban Maryland. Duffey learned to play the mandolin, dobro, and guitar, in addition to his tenor singing voice. He founded two of the most influential groups in bluegrass, The Country Gentlemen and The Seldom Scene. His tastes and sources were eclectic, often raiding folk song books and Protestant hymnals for material. He embraced the music of Bob Dylan and his style of playing was rock and jazz-inflected. In the late 1950s and the 1960s, he also increasingly began working as a session musician to supplement his income.
The son of a singer at the Metropolitan Opera, Duffey's singing ranged from tenor to falsetto, and was in contrast to the voice of baritone singer Charlie Waller.
Duffey started playing guitar at age 17 after a neighbor convinced him to pick up the instrument. In 1957 he worked at radio station WFMD in Frederick, Maryland partnered with Charlie Waller to fill in for other musicians. That duo eventually became the Country Gentlemen. As a member of the Country Gentlemen, Duffey was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1996.
Two months after his induction to the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor, Duffey was hospitalized in Arlington, Virginia after complaining of chest pains. The next morning, he died after suffering a heart attack.
==Links to Peel==
Peel discovered a compilation album of John Duffey's material in 2000 and would play tracks from it on his shows. There is no evidence according to available tracklistings on this site that Peel ever played any of John Duffey's songs on his radio programmes, whilst the latter was alive.
==Shows Played==
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*29 November 2000: Philadelphia Laywer (CD - Always In Style) Sugar Hill 
*December 2000 (FSK): Philadelphia Lawyer (CD - Always In Style: A Classic Collection) Sugar Hill 
*07 December 2000 (Radio Eins): 'Philadelphia Lawyer (CD-Always In Style: Classic Collection)' (Sugarhill) (JP: 'Me and my mate Edgar, when I lived in Dallas, Texas, used to drive around in his car singing that virtually all night.')
;2001
*03 January 2001: Hickory Wind (CD - Always In Style: A Collection) Sugar Hill
*04 January 2001 (Radio Eins): Pictures From Life's Other Side (CD - Always In Style: A Collection) Sugar Hill
*07 January 2001 (BBC World Service): Philadelphia Lawyer (album - Always In Style: A Collection) Sugar Hill
*07 January 2001 (BFBS): 'Hickory Wind (CD-Always In Style: A Collection)' (Sugar Hill)
*10 January 2001: Hickory Wind (CD - Always in Style) Sugar Hill 
*January 2001 (FSK): Hickory Wind (CD - Always in Style) Sugar Hill 
*16 January 2001: She's More To Be Pitied (CD - Always In Style: A Collection) Sugar Hill 
*25 January 2001: Hickory Wind (CD - Always In Style: A Collection) Sugar Hill 
*25 January 2001 (Radio Eins): She's More To Be Pitied (album - Always In Style: A Collection) Sugar Hill
*28 January 2001 (BBC World Service): She's More To Be Pitied (album - Always In Style: A Collection) Sugar Hill
*31 January 2001: Life Is Like A Mountain Railway (CD - Always In Style: A Collection) Sugar Hill
*01 February 2001 (Radio Eins): Girl In The Night (CD - Always In Style: A Collection) Sugar Hill
;2003
*08 May 2003: 'Philadelphia Lawyer' (LP - Always In Style) (Sugar Hill)
;2004
*07 December 2004 (Rob Da Bank): Philadelphia Laywer (CD - Always In Style) Sugar Hill 
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
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