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A.k.a. Charles Ray Stearman
Bluegrass mandolin player, and founder and long time proprietor of the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA). Died in 2016 at the age of 79. Starting in the late 1960s, Stearman worked with The Bluegrass Association, a band based in Kansas City. They were very popular regionally and performed regularly at festivals, concerts and the like. Chuck played mandolin with Lyman Enloe on fiddle, Jim McGreevy on banjo, Don Montgomery on bass, and John Bennett on guitar. They recorded four albums prior to their breakup in 1981. In 1974 he founded SPBGMA to promote bluegrass music.