'Tales From The Woods' raises a glass and says farewell to Marvin Montgomery, the leader of the Texas based band Light Crust Doughboys, a western swing institution with whom he had played for over sixty five years. As the last surviving member of the outfit that was formed way back in 1935, this banjoist and guitarist was out playing with the Light Crust Doughboys just a month before his death at the age of 88 of leukaemia.

                                          Marvin Montgomery

                                                                                           born 1913 died June 6^th 2001.  

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