Billy Ray Latham (January 12, 1938,

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– August 19, 2018, Nashville, TN) was an American banjo player. He was best known as a member of the Kentucky Colonels (1961-c.1974). He then joined

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in 1974, and left c.1978. He died in 2018, having been in poor health for years.

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