Who is Winston Marshall?
Born on 20 December 1987 in Wandsworth, London, England, Winston Aubrey Aladar Marshall is the banjoist, lead guitarist and one of the founding members of the British band Mumford & Sons . He has been attributed as Country Winston and WN5TN on the Mumford & Sons albums, Sigh No More and Wilder Mind .
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Before Mumford & Sons was founded, Marshall ran a jam evening at Bosun s Locker, a tiny music club beneath a pastry shop on the King s Road in Fulham, where musicians who had an inclination for earthy acoustic music played with each other. Before Mumford & Sons , he was a part of the band Captain Kick and the Cowboy Ramblers , a bluegrass sleaze rap band, in which he was credited as Country Winston and played the banjo and guitar.