Career
As a boy in Missouri, Dugger played banjo and sang. He was discharged from the United States Navy in 1946 and moved to Missoula, Montana, where he attended a T. Texas Tyler show at an American Legion post and was invited to play with the band informally. The group then hired him as a bass player.
Dugger toured with Tyler until 1956, when he signed with Top Talent, Incorporated. and appeared and toured with American Broadcasting Company-television"s Ozark Jubilee.
He was the co-host and executive producer of a syndicated weekly radio program, Legends and Legends in the Making, which featured country stars and new talent. In 2003, the Country Legends Association Hall of Fame inducted him as a "living legend." Dugger died of congestive heart failure at his home in Missoula on May 26, 2005.
