Rex Yetman hailed from Jamestown

Jamestown, Newfoundland and Labrador

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, Newfoundland

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, Canada

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He was one of the founding members of the York County Boys, Canada's first bluegrass

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 band

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, who played around Ontario

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 and eastern Canada through the 1960s and early 1970s. They recorded

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 "You Done Me Wrong" and "Down The Road Blues". Yetman played mandolin

Mandolin

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 and sang on the album

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, Bluegrass Jamboree with the York County Boys, which was the first bluegrass album in Canada.

He most recently played with Crooked Stovepipe of St. John's

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, who were awarded the East Coast Music Association's bluegrass album of the year in 2006.

Yetman died in December 2009, at the age of 76.