details for Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers

Also credited as:
• Gid Tanner, Clayton McMichen, Riley Puckett, Lowe Stokes & Fate Norris
• The Skillet Lickers
• Gid Tanner & His Skillet-Lickers

Common misspellings:
• Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers
• Gid Tanner & The Skillet-Lickers

General type of music:
• country

Real name:
• James Gideon Tanner

Born:
• June 6, 1885

Died:
• May 13, 1960

Group formed:
• 1926

Group disbanded:
• 1931 (original group)
• 1934

Group members:
• Gid Tanner (fiddle)
• Clayton McMichen (fiddle)
• Riley Puckett (guitar)
• Lowe Stokes (fiddle)
• Fate Norris (banjo)

Based in:
• North Georgia

interesting facts (click to see playlist of show on which fact was mentioned, if applicable):
• one of the most popular country bands of the 1920s