Joe Maphis, born Otis W. Maphis, was an American country music guitarist. He married singer Rose Lee Maphis in 1953.
One of the flashiest country guitarists of the 1950s and 1960s, Joe Maphis was known as The King of the Strings. He was able to play many stringed instruments with great facility. However, he specialized in dazzling guitar virtuosity.
Maphis was born in Suffolk, Virginia. Joe's family moved to Cumberland, Maryland in 1925 when his father Bob Maphis got a job with the B&O Railroad....
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