Roy Hobbs

Died: November 29, 1949. Member of the Renfro Valley Barn Dance, WKRC Cornhuskers Jamboree, WPFB Jamboree and WWVA Original Jamboree. Associate of Kentucky legends Asa Martin and James (Carson) Roberts. Played mandolin and sang with Martin on Gennett Records in Richmond, Indiana, in the early 1930s. In the 1940s, he was at Renfro Valley and did a comedy act with “Little Eller Long.” In the late 1940s, he came to Middletown to appear on WPFB radio as a performer and deejay. Bobby Osborne played in a band with Shorty and Chuck Swain in his early days at WPFB.