Johnny Duncan (bluegrass Musician)
John Franklin Duncan (September 7, 1932 – July 15, 2000) was an American bluegrass and skiffle musician. He became popular in Britain in 1957 with " Last Train to San Fernando", which reached number two in the UK Singles Chart. Biography Duncan was born in the Windrock coal-mining camp overlooking the town of Oliver Springs, Tennessee, United States. In his teens he moved to Texas where he learned guitar and mandolin, and played in a hillbilly trio. He served in the US Air Force, and in 1952 was garrisoned in Cambridgeshire, England, where he met and married a local girl, Betty, in 1953. When performing for American servicemen at Bushey, Hertfordshire, in 1956, he was seen by Dickie Bishop, banjoist in Chris Barber's Dixieland jazz band. Barber was looking for a new vocalist to replace Lonnie Donegan, who had started a solo career, and Duncan took over the role for several months before leaving Barber's band in early 1957.
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Oliver Springs, Tennessee
Oliver Springs is a town in Anderson, Morgan, and Roane counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Its population was 3,231 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Harriman, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of Roane County. History Oliver Springs was founded in 1821 as Winter's Gap.Oliver Springs History
, Town of Oliver Springs website; retrieved October 24, 2017. It was named for its first permanent settler of European descent, Major Moses Winters, who had settled in the area before 1799. Before that time, the area around Oliver Springs had been used by Native Americans as a hunting ground and campsite. Natural