GENE ALBRIGHT WAS BORN ON JANUARY 4, 1930, IN CARMARGO, OKLAHOMA.

AT THE YOUNG AGE OF SEVEN, HE STARTED HIS GREAT CAREER IN MUSIC. UNTIL THE AGE OF 14, GENE STUDIED CLASSICAL MUSIC. AT THE AGE OF 12, HE WAS NOT ONLY THE YOUNGEST MEMBER OF THE AMARILLO PHILHARMONIC, BUT HE W AS FIRST CHAIR OF THE SECOND VIOLIN SECTION OF THE 93 PIECE ORCHESTRA.

AFTER MOVING TO OKLAHOMA IN 1944, GENE PUT HIS FIRST BAND TOGETHER AND

STARTED PLAYING AT DANCES.

GENE MOVED TO SACRAMENTO IN 1948 AND BECAME A PIANO PLAYER FOR LOYD FRANKINI.

SHORTLY AFTER, HE BECAME A TWIN FIDDLER WITH ANOTHER MEMBER OF THAT GROUP, GLEN TARVER.

GENE MOVED ON TO PLAY WITH ALEX BRASHEAR AND THEN TINY MOORE. HE THEN MOVED TO LAKE TAHOE WHERE HE WORKED AT HARVEY'S CLUB. AT SQUAW VALLEY, HE ENTERTAINED FROM TABLE TO TABLE PLAYING GUITAR, SINGING AND  YODELING.

GENE SPENT A COUPLE OF YEARS IN THE SERVICE AFTER WHICH HE BECAME THE FIDDLER AND MANAGER OF OLE RASMUSSEN AND HIS NEBRASKA CORN-HUSKERS.

OVER THE YEARS, GENE HAS PERFORMED WITH SUCH GREATS AS HANK THOMPSON, BUCK OWENS, LEFTY FRIZZEL, ROSE MADDOX, TOMMY DUNCAN, FREDDY HART, JOHNNY CASH AND T. TEXAS TYLER, TO NAME A FEW.

IN 1981, GENE WENT TO WORK FOR LOYD JONES AND THE WESTERN SWING BAND.

GENE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE SACRAMENTO WESTERN SWING SOCIETY IN OCTOBER OF 1982.

Gene was inducted into the POWS in 1996.

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