Vern & Ray

The very first bluegrass band to exist in greater Northern California was Vern & Ray and the Carroll County Country Boys. As early as 1959, Vern Williams (mandolin) & Ray Park (guitar) were playing with banjo player Luther Riley. The addition of Clyde Williamson on guitar later that year (and Ray’s switch to fiddle) truly solidified the group into a bona fide bluegrass band.