Wade Mainer

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1907

Active to

2011

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,321

Total plays

13,466

Wade Mainer (April 21, 1907 – September 12, 2011) was an American singer and banjoist. With his band, the Sons of the Mountaineers, he is credited with bridging the gap between old-time mountain music and Bluegrass and is sometimes called the "Grandfather of Bluegrass." In addition, he innovated a two-finger banjo fingerpicking style, which was a precursor to modern three-finger bluegrass styles. Originally from North Carolina, Mainer's main influences came from the mountain music of his fami

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,429x

2. <i>Planck</i>2015 results

   · 2016 · cited 9,752x

3. The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

   · 2020 · cited 8,884x

4. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

   · 2017 · cited 8,075x

5. The MR-Base platform supports systematic causal inference across the human phenome

   · 2018 · cited 7,160x

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