Real name: Joseph H. Barker

US Country Musician, Born in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Born: January 9, 1914 Died: March 17, 1985 Happy-Go-Lucky Joe Barker
Happy-Go-Lucky was his nickname and he got it from his friends on the WWVA Jamboree. He was said to always look for the laugh in situations and '...had the happy knack of kicking aside the frown provokers." Joe Barker began his radio career when he was fifteen years old as a singing Evangelist in Akron, Ohio. Married to the singer "Little Shirley" and played together on WWVA. They both arrived on the scene of the famed WWVA Jamboree in Wheeling back in 1938. On the WWVA 3rd Annual Goodwill Tour, he and Curley Miller were the co-managers of the "Chuckwagon Doughboys" that consisted of Little Shirley, Sonny Day, Jimmy Hutchinson and Willie Whistle. Remembered for writing "The Crash Of The Sun Racer", a song about the plane crash of TWA Flight 1 in 1936.