Country singer/songwriter Franklin Delano Reeves was born on July 14, 1932 in Sparta, North Carolina. The youngest of eleven children, Reeves learned how to play guitar with his mother's help (he borrowed his brothers' instruments while they were serving in World War II) and was a local radio star at age twelve.

• Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers (1967)

  
• The Las Vegas Hillbillys (1966)

  
• Sam Whiskey (1969)