Floyd Cramer Biography

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Two of the biggest influences on mid-century country were Chet Atkins and Floyd Cramer. Atkins became a major producer and executive with RCA Records and put his stamp on the "new country" sound of Nashville. Cramer was his piano player of choice. Cramer was born in 1933 in Shreveport, Louisiana and learned to play piano at age five while growing up in rural Arkansas. His style of playing has been heard on hundreds of recordings in the soft pop/rock styling he and Atkins took to and transferred to their style of country. He was on the popular Louisiana Hayride radio show barely out of high school and not long after was at RCA with Chet. His studio work included records by Elvis Presley, Jim Reeves and Atkins, among many others, and he is said to have been influenced by the guitar work of Mother Maybelle Carter and piano stylings of Don Robertson, this supposedly giving him the "slipnote" or "gracenote" style that immediately identifies him to the listener. Cramer hit the pop charts four times between 1960-62, his first single "Last Date," which climbed to No. 2, followed by "On the Rebound," at No. 4, and "San Antonio Rose," at No. 8. But he was also on the country charts frequently. He has made dozens of albums over the years and in the late '70s even made an album using eight different keyboards in an exercise in overtracking. And he continued into the '80s in his own very personal style.

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