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[[Image:Stringbean.jpg|right|300px|thumb|David "Stringbean" Akeman]]

[[Image:Stringbean.jpg|right|300px|thumb|David "Stringbean" Akeman]]

'''David "Stringbean" Akeman''' (1915-1973) was a country music player from the 1940s through 1973, gaining stardom on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, and a regular on the television series ''Hee Haw''.

'''David "Stringbean" Akeman''' (1915-1973) was a [[country music]] player from the 1940s through 1973, gaining stardom on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry in [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]], and a regular on the television series ''Hee Haw''.

==Life==

==Life==

He was born Annville, Kentucky on June 17, 1915, to a father who played the banjo at square dances and other local events.  Inspired by his father, young David made his first instrument out of a shoebox, and at the age of twelve he traded a pair of prize roosters for his first actual banjo.  His contacts with his father's fellow musicians - all of whom possessed considerable skill on the instrument - proved invaluable, and before long David was making the show circuit rounds on his own, a good musician in his own right, but his money would come in from the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps (where he helped build roads and plant trees), and not from his music.  It was a talent contest that gave David his famous name.  Asa Martin was on a search for a band member who could play the banjo, and when David won, Martin could not pronounce his last name; instead, the tall, lanky young man (David was about 6'5") was introduced to the crowd as "String Beans", which stuck with him for the rest of his life.   

He was born Annville, [[Kentucky]] on June 17, 1915, to a father who played the [[banjo]] at square dances and other local events.  Inspired by his father, young David made his first instrument out of a shoebox, and at the age of twelve he traded a pair of prize roosters for his first actual banjo.  His contacts with his father's fellow musicians - all of whom possessed considerable skill on the instrument - proved invaluable, and before long David was making the show circuit rounds on his own, a good musician in his own right, but his money would come in from the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps (where he helped build roads and plant trees), and not from his music.  It was a talent contest that gave David his famous name.  Asa Martin was on a search for a band member who could play the banjo, and when David won, Martin could not pronounce his last name; instead, the tall, lanky young man (David was about 6'5") was introduced to the crowd as "String Beans", which stuck with him for the rest of his life.   

==Musical career==

==Musical career==