Carl Story (May 29, 1916[1] – March 31, 1995)[2] was an American bluegrass musician, and leader of his band the Rambling Mountaineers.
Story was born in Lenoir, North Carolina, United States,[1] into a musically inclined family.
In the early 1930s, after winning a fiddle contest, he joined J. E. Clark and the Lonesome Mountaineers performing at WLVA in Lynchburg, Virginia.
In 1934, he formed the Rambling Mountaineers together with banjo player Johnny Whisnant and guitarists Dudley Watson and Ed McMahan.
[1] After his discharge from the U.S. Navy in 1945, he began reforming and performing with his Rambling Mountaineers on the Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round show at WNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee.