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#1: Composite image of early photo of Earl Cate and still frame from Pryor Center video interview
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#2: Earl and Ernie Cate's father, Lloyd Cate
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#3: LLoyd Cate with his wife, Florence Almeda Cate, and their sons, Ernie and Earl
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#4: Earl and Ernie Cate's father, Lloyd Cate, with his brother, Leo; May 1944
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#5: Earl and Ernie Cate
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#6: Earl and Ernie Cate
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#7: Earl and Ernie Cate
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#8: Earl and Ernie Cate
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#9: Earl and Ernie Cate
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#10: Ernie and Earl Cate
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#11: The Del-Reys: (clockwise from center) Ken Owens, Ernie Cate, Lonnie Watson, Randy Favorite, and Earl Cate
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#12: The Del-Reys: (from left) Gerald Golden, Ernie Cate, Randy Favorite, and Earl Cate, 1965
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#13: Earl Cate plays a Fender Telecaster guitar
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#14: The Cates Gang's 1970 album, Wanted
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#15: The Cates Gang's 1972 album, Come Back Home
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#16: Ernie and Earl Cate
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#17: Cate Bros. Band: Ernie Cate, Earl Cate, Terry Cagle, and Ron Eoff, ca. 1970s
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#18: Cate Bros. Band: Terry Cagle, Ron Eoff, Ernie Cate, and Earl Cate
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#19: Cate Brothers Band: Ernie Cate, Ron Eoff, Terry Cagle, and Earl Cate
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#20: Earl Cate plays a Fender Telecaster guitar
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#21: Cate Bros. 1975 self-titled album
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#22: Earl Cate
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#23: Earl Cate plays a Fender Telecaster guitar
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#24: Playbill for Kingfish, Charlie Daniels Band, and Cate Brothers; 1976
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#25: Cate Bros. 1976 album, In One Eye and Out the Other
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#26: Cate Bros. Band 1977 album
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#27: Ronnie Hawkins (left) and Herman Tuck on drums at Herman's Ribhouse, Fayetteville, Arkansas
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#28: Ernie and Earl Cate's parents, Florence and Lloyd Cate; 1978
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#29: Cate Bros. Band 1979 album, Fire on the Tracks
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#30: Earl Cate
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#31: Cate Bros. Band: Porky Hill, David Renko, Ernie Cate, Earl Cate, and John Davies
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#32: Cate Bros. Band: (clockwise from top left) Earl Cate, Ernie Cate, Ron Eoff, David Renko, and Porky Hill
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#33: Earl Cate's Ozark Music Award, 2002
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#34: Earl Cate's Fender Telecaster guitar at Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble; Woodstock, New York, March 10, 2007
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#35: Earl Cate plays a Fender Telecaster guitar
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#36: Earl Cate with his Fender Telecaster guitar
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#37: Behind-the-scenes photo from Pryor Center interview with Earl Cate; Springdale, Arkansas, 2010
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#38: Behind-the-scenes photo from Pryor Center interview with Earl Cate; Springdale, Arkansas, 2010
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#39: Behind-the-scenes photo from Pryor Center interview with Earl Cate; Springdale, Arkansas, 2010
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#40: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Earl Cate; Springdale, Arkansas, 2010
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#41: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Earl Cate; Springdale, Arkansas, 2010
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