Joel Price

American Country/Bluegrass bass player and singer. He is credited with introducing the electric bass into country music. Retired from performing in 1964 and opened Price's Hillbilly Grocery. Price traveled with the Toccoa, Georgia-based Tommy Scott Traveling Medicine Show as the show's bass player, comedian and ventriloquist, calling himself "Cousin Horsefly." He later became one of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. Price also played bass for eight years for "The Judy Lynn Show," a Las Vegas show at the Golden Nugget casino, and was an emcee at Shoal Creek Music Park in Lavonia, Georgia. Born: November 17, 1910 in Franklin County, Georgia Died: April 3,1999 in Commerce, Georgia