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Bob Tripp

Bob Tripp was born in Southern Missouri and soon moved to Arkansas. He says they "lived so far back in the woods we had to walk towards town to go hunting." Bob got his first guitar on his 12th birthday. He started playing steel guitar at 13 and by 17 was playing in a Western Swing band. In 1960 he bought a Dobro at a junk store for $65. Since then, he's played so many shows and on so many recordings, he's lost count. Among his many awards the most memorable was "The National Dobro Championship", at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas.