Early Years and Family
Boone was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to Clyde Wilson Randall, Sr. (born 1917) and Rhumel E. Boone (born December 31, 1919).
Boone is the cousin of singer-actress Debby Boone; his uncle is her father, actor-singer Pat Boone. Another uncle was actor Richard Boone, star of the CBS series Have Gun, Will Travel. All four claim kinship to the American frontiersman Daniel Boone.
In 1960, Boone entered North Carolina State University at Raleigh but dropped out to tour the country and play his guitar, spending a lot of time in his early adulthood in coffeehouses.
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