The Fields Brothers

Bennie Fields (b. 22 January 1941, Kermit, Mingo County, West Virginia, USA; guitar, vocals) and his brother Clancy (b. 11 February 1950, Kermit, Mingo County, West Virginia, USA; bass fiddle, guitar, mandolin, vocals). Inspired by a mandolin-playing uncle, Lundy Fields, Bennie began a singing career at 12 and had his own band at 18. In 1968, Clancy, the youngest of 12 Fields children, joined his brother. In 1970, the Fields Brothers bluegrass band, including Curtis Beck (fiddle, dobro) and banjoist Dave Clark, won a major bluegrass festival at Columbus, Ohio. They recorded th...