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Happy 82nd, Johnny Gimble
By Carl Hoover
| Friday, May 30, 2008, 11:10 AM
His two-step is maybe more of a two-and-a-half step these days, but his quips are still ready and his fiddle work as sweet as ever - not bad at all for 82 years, which is what Texas fiddler Johnny Gimble turns today.
The rigors of life on the road are notorious for shortening the lives of performing musicians, but country music seems to have kept young the likes of Gimble, Willie Nelson (who turned 75 this year), Merle Haggard (71), Billy Joe Shaver (68), Ray Price (82) and the late Hank Thompson, who was still performing at the age of 82 before his final, fatal bout with cancer.
Best wishes to Johnny - may he still visit Waco stages with his fiddle in the years to come.
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