Bluegrass Singer. He is most remembered for his partnership with Bluegrass singer, Charlie Moore and the band, Dixie Partners. The band consisted of Napier on mandolin or banjo, Moore on lead guitar, and a fiddle. With Moore as partner, he went on to record over 108 bluegrass tunes on nine albums for Kings Records, the last one released after his split with Moore. Looking back and reading published reviews in almost 50-year-old magazines, their albums were hastily and somewhat unprofessionally made, hence not capturing the true talent of the two men. The partnership began in 1960 and they performed together until 1967. Based in West Florida, they appeared regularly on radio and television shows in South Carolina and Florida and made countless Bluegrass festival appearances in various states including as far north as New York State. Unhappy with the situation, they finished their bookings, dissolved their partnership, and he returned to his hometown in Detroit area to semi-retired. In 1954, he had relocated to Detroit from Grundy, Virginia to find factory work as a day job while playing the evenings with the local band, Curly Dan & Wilma Ann with The Danville Mountain Boys. He began to play lead guitar, and in 1957, he became a member of the Stanley Brothers’ Clinch Mountain Boys. He became typical country comedy as “Pop,” a garrulous old man who wore a goofy hat and seemed to know everything, yet was one of the most talented performers on the stage. He wrote and recorded his own “Daybreak In Dixie” in November 1957 introducing acoustic lead guitar work to the Stanley's’ recordings. Besides “Daybreak In Dixie”, he wrote and collaborated on many other songs, most of them with Moore. He was the first to experiment with the "crosspicking" style of playing a guitar, which the legendary George Shuffler would later refine and popularize. He made occasional appearances, and in the 70s, he again played with Curly Dan & Wilma Ann. Later on, he made some recordings with them, and also with Charlie Moore. In 1984, he recorded his only solo album with a group called the Mountain Music Clan for Old Homestead Records, before he began to work and record with Larry Taylor And His Waterloo Bluegrass Boys. In the 90s he performed occasionally with his wife Karla Napier. He was an exemplary and original player who transferred his ability on mandolin to guitar with ease. He and his wife relocated to Tennessee where he died after a long battle with cancer. He was given a true Bluegrass funeral along with a tribute of his songs played at the Grand Old Opry. At the time of his death, Napier's career in music had spanned more than forty years.