Nicknamed the Dixie Dewdrop by Grand Ole Opry founder Judge George D. Hay, David Harrison Macon, with his chin whiskers, gold teeth, gates-ajar collar, and open-backed Gibson banjo, was the first real star of the Grand Ole Opry and one of the most colorful personalities in the history of the music.

Macon was an influential bridge between the folk and vaudeville music of the nineteenth century and the more modern music of the phonograph record, the radio, and motion pictures. He was a supremely skilled banjo player (modern historians have identified at least nineteen different picking styles on his records), a strong and clear singer, a skilled songwriter, an outrageous comedian, and a dedicated preserver of old songs and styles. Most of all, though, he was a master showman, bringing to the newly emerging country music a professionalism and polish sorely needed to establish it as a viable commercial art form.

Courtesy of
Country Music Hall of Fame

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