Cliff Bruner
Cliff Bruner | |
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One of Cliff Bruner's recordings | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Clifton Lafayette Bruner |
| Born | April 25, 1915 Texas City, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | August 25, 2000 (aged 85) Texas City, Texas, U.S. |
| Genres | Western swing |
| Years active | 1930s - 1980s |
| Formerly of | Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies The Texas Wanderers |
Clifton Lafayette Bruner (April 25, 1915 – August 25, 2000) was a fiddler and bandleader of the Western Swing era of the 1930s and 1940s. Bruner's music combined elements of traditional string band music, improvisation, blues, folk, and popular melodies of the times.