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William Bradley Kincaid (July 13, 1895 – September 23, 1989) was an American folk singer and radio entertainer. Bradley Kincaid , Nashville Songwriters Foundation Hall of Fame. Accessed July 4, 2012.
In 1935"Flashback: The 'Opry' Gets A Grandpa", Country Weekly, March 2004. Quoted in part on FindArticles.com. Accessed online 25 August 2007. he was working at WBZ-AM in Boston, Massachusetts, where he performed with a band that included young singer and banjo player Marshall Jones. Kincaid teased the 22-year-old fellow Kentuckian for always being grumpy when he came to the studio to do the early morning broadcast, nicknaming him Grandpa Jones. The moniker became permanent for the future Grand Ole Opry star.
Kincaid moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1945 where he too became a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
In 1971, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
In 1988, the then 93-year-old Kincaid was involved in an automobile accident and sustained injuries from which he never fully recovered.Loyal Jones, "Radio's Kentucky Mountain Boy" (1988 Edition), Berea College Appalachian Center, Berea, KY. He died in 1989 at the age of 94 in Springfield, Ohio and was interred there in the Ferncliff Cemetery.
Old Homestead Records released several volumes of Kincaid's mountain ballads, hymns, and old-time songs.
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