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Humphrey Bate
Humphrey Bate (May 25, 1875 – June 12, 1936) was an American harmonica player and string band leader. He was the first musician to play old-time music on Nashville-area radio, and is generally regarded as the first performer on what would eventually become the Grand Ole Opry. Bate and his band, which had been given the name "Dr. Humphrey Bate & His Possum Hunters" by Opry founder George D. Hay, remained regulars on the Grand Ole Opry until Bate's death in 1936. The band's recordings, while scant, are considered some of the most distinctive and complex string band compositions in the old-time genre.〔Charles Wolfe, "Dr. Humphrey Bate," ''The Encyclopedia of Country Music: The Ultimate Guide to the Music'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 30.〕
==Early life==
Humphrey Bate was born in Castalian Springs, Tennessee on May 25, 1875 to a prominent Middle Tennessee family. Several of Bate's relatives had served as Confederate officers in the American Civil War, including a captain— also named Humphrey Bate— who was killed at the Battle of Shiloh. Bate's cousin, William Brimage Bate, served as Governor of Tennessee in the 1880s.〔Jay Guy Cisco, ''Historic Sumner County, Tennessee'' (Nashville, Tenn.: Charles Elder, 1971), 223.〕〔Wolfe, ''Encyclopedia of Country Music'', 30.〕 The Bate family owned several plantations throughout the southeast, and Humphrey probably learned to play dance tunes from freed slaves living on his father's plantation in Castalian Springs.〔Charles Wolfe, "Notes to Volume 1." In ''Nashville - The Early String Bands Vol. 1'' (pp. 3–5) (liner notes ). County Records, 2000.〕
Throughout his teen years, Bate collected pocket change by playing harmonica on steamboats travelling up and down the Cumberland River. He eventually attended medical school at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and served as a surgeon in the Spanish American War (1898).〔Jack Hurst, ''Nashville's Grand Ole Opry'' (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1975), 78.〕 While Bate worked primarily as a physician for most of his life, he never lost his passion for playing music. He likely formed his first string band sometime around 1900, and subsequently acquired a reputation in the Nashville area by playing at various rallies and silent movie theaters.〔Wolfe, "Notes," 5.〕
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