When the news broke earlier this week informing us of Sonny Osborne’s passing, my mind raced back to when I first heard him and sibling Bobby – bluegrass music’s indomitable Osborne Brothers – on a ...

Bobby Osborne, left, and his brother Sonny, who recorded their most popular tune, “Rocky Top,” in 1967, leave the stage after receiving their Kentucky Stars at The 2004 Kentucky Stars recognition ...

Legendary bluegrass banjoist Sonny Osborne died on Sunday October 24 at his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, Bluegrass Today reports. He was 83 years old. Sonny was born in the coalfields of eastern ...

One half of the band The Osborne Brothers, Bobby helped popularize the song "Rocky Top" with the band's rendition in 1967 Presley Ann/Getty Bobby Osborne, the legendary bluegrass musician and one-half ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Half of the duo who first recorded Tennessee's "Rocky Top" has passed away. Sonny Osborne, of the Osborne Brothers, has died, the Country Music Hall of Fame announced Monday. Born ...

NASHVILLE — Legendary bluegrass musician Sonny Osborne of the Osborne Brothers – whose blazing banjo was the irst to play “Rocky Top” on record – died Sunday at age 84. Osborne's death was confirmed ...

HYDEN, Ky. — Bobby Osborne, half of the Osborne Brothers duo who first recorded "Rocky Top," has died. He was 91. Born in Hyden, Kentucky, the mandolin player joined with his brother, Sonny, to form a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Sonny Osborne, the banjo player and singer who, with his older brother, Bobby, led one of the most innovative and beloved bands in bluegrass music, died Sunday at his home in ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Bobby Osborne, one half of the famed bluegrass duo ‘The Osborne Brothers’ who helped popularize the song ‘Rocky Top,’ has died. He was 91 years old. Osborne, a native of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bluegrass musician and singer Sonny Osborne, whose fast banjo licks turned “Rocky Top” into a hit with The Osborne Brothers, has died. He was 84. Alison Brown, a Grammy-winning ...

HAZARD, Ky. — Bobby Osborne, the mandolin-playing bluegrass music legend who, as one half of The Osborne Brothers, helped popularize the song “Rocky Top,” died Tuesday. He was 91. The Grand Ole Opry, ...

Leslie County native Bobby Osborne, a mandolin player who with his brother Sonny Osborne formed the bluegrass music duo The Osborne Brothers, has died. He was 91. Bobby Osborne’s clear tenor voice has ...