Buck Trent (born Charles Wilburn Trent in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on February 17, 1938; died October 9, 2023) was an American country music instrumentalist. He invented the electric banjo and played the five-string banjo, dobro, steel guitar, mandolin, electric bass and guitar. Performing on radio stations WORD and WSPA in Spartansburg by age 11, Trent was a member of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys from 1960 to 1961, Porter Wagoner's "Wagon Masters" from 1962 to 1973, and also appeared on the Roy Clark Show and Hee Haw from 1974 to 1982. He played lead guitar…
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