Fiddlin' "Red" Herron - Listen To The Mocking Bird

Fiddlin' Red Herron was a hillbilly-style fiddler who performed with numerous country outfits throughout the west and midwest USA from the mid-1940s to the 1960s. Born , he adopted the performance nickname "" or "Fiddlin' Red Herron". Throughout his career, Herron would use his legal name (Fred Herron) for copyrights and rarely in credits. The performance nicknames were used with more consistency for credits and performer billing, and he signed himself as "Fiddlin' Red Herron" for autographs. Herron's early musical performances were with . He recorded primarily on the label, and appeared alongside Tubb in "Hollywood Barn Dance" (a musical film released by Screen Guild on 21 June 1947). Shortly after the film was released, Herron decided to go solo. Failing to find significant success, Herron soon joined as a backup performer and then moved to Wichita Falls, Texas where he worked for a local radio station. By March of 1951, Billboard reported that Herron had hit a slump and was now working for a gas station in Cleveland. Performing sporadically, Herron released a number of singles in 1951 under King's sublabel, and in 1952 he joined as one of the Sandia Mountain Boys. For two years they performed on Radio KOB in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 1954 Herron joined where he toured for nearly two years and then in late 1955 he joined 's All Star Jamboree. In January 1959 Herron joined , and by the end of the year he had quit to join 's band.