SWEET, EUGENE “GENE” (c.1931-2013)

Gene Sweet played resonator guitar and worked at one time with Dave Woolum. In 1960, in Cincinnati, he helped Dave to record four songs which were leased to Starday. In 1971, he had the house band The Blue Grass Unlimited at the Mermaid Lounge at 3100 East Third Street in Dayton with Mike Lilly, Art Wydner, and Oliver Witson. Gene also toured with Red Allen and the Allen Brothers and in 1976 cut an album on Jewel entitled Out On the Ocean.