Ken Carson

b. 14 November 1914, in a buckboard between Colgate and Centrahoma, Oklahoma, USA. Carson's part-Cherokee father died when he was aged one, but he developed his musical interest from his mother who played guitar, and his fiddle-playing stepfather. After first moving to Wichita, Kansas, the Carsons finally settled in Los Angeles. A good singer, he soon became a competent guitarist but first performed, playing harmonica, in a duo with Red Barton, on the KGFJ radio station. Late in 1931, he became a regular on Stuart Hamblen's popular radio show. A year later, he became a member ...