Sixfinger Severson

Sixfinger Severson, born Wayne Severson on September 14, 1955, earned recognition as a country blues guitarist via his work with David Allan Coe in the mid-1990s, followed by a fleeting solo path. He handled guitar duties on three 1994 King Records albums from Allan Coe: Lonesome Fugitive, The Perfect Country and Western Song, and Truckin' Outlaw. These seldom-documented releases seldom surface in the outlaw country veteran's discographies, an artist whose mainstream success had waned by the prior decade, yet the connection boosted Severson's own trajectory. He then ventured into solo releases centered on comedic country blues with rock influences, self-issuing No I Don't Play Basketball (1995) and Refinished (1998), and later Bite the Buddha (2000) through Lion Feather Records. Eventually, he took up guitar duties with Cool Beenz, the Branson, MO blues-rock party band that maintained a steady performance schedule statewide.