Riley Shepard
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Richard Riley Shepard (October 21, 1918 – November 6, 2009) was an American country musician, songwriter, and folk music archivist.
For much of his life, Shepard was an accomplished confidence trickster and used a variety of stage names and pseudonyms, primarily to evade his creditors and break the terms of his recording contracts.[1]
Shepard was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. As a teenager, he began his career as a radio performer on WPTF and WBT.[2] In the late 1940s, he joined the cast of Hayloft Hoedown, a radio show produced in Philadelphia. During this period, his recordings were issued on several labels, including Musicraft, King, and Majestic.[3]
