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Baker teamed with Graves until Graves' death in 2006. Baker is considered to be one of the most influential fiddlers in bluegrass music. His "long-bow" style added a smoothness and clarity to the fiddle-based music of his boss, Grand Ole Opry member Bill Monroe. His long tenure with Bill Monroe included banjo player Bill Keith 's development of ...
1940s-1970s. Thomas Lee "Tommy" Jackson Jr. (March 31, 1926 – December 9, 1979) was an American fiddle player, regarded as "one of the finest commercial fiddle players of all time". [ 1] He played on hundreds of country records from the 1940s to the 1970s, and it has been claimed that he "has probably been heard on more country records than ...
Occupation (s) Bluegrass artist. Instrument (s) Fiddle. Years active. 1933-1977. Paul Warren (May 17, 1918 –January 12, 1978) was an American fiddle player best known for his work on a number of Kitty Wells singles, and his long tenure with Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. [2]
Old time (also spelled old-time or oldtime) fiddle is the style of American fiddling found in old-time music. Old time fiddle tunes are derived from European folk dance forms such as the jig, reel, breakdown, schottische, waltz, two-step, and polka. When the fiddle is accompanied by banjo, guitar, mandolin, or other string instruments, the ...
American fiddle -playing began with the early European settlers, who found that the small viol family of instruments were more portable and rugged than other instruments of the period. According to Ron Yule, "John Utie, a 1620 immigrant, settled in the North and is credited as being the first known fiddler on American soil". [1]
Wood was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on August 28, 1964, and raised outside Fairview, a little country town twenty-five miles southwest of Nashville. With 160 fiddle and mandolin championships (including fifteen state championships in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama) between the years 1978 and 2001, Wood is one of the most decorated contest ...
Jake Krack. Jake Krack playing the fiddle in 2009. Jake Krack (born 1984) son of Reed and Dara Krack, is a prominent young old-time fiddler and fiddle teacher from Nicut in the U.S. state of West Virginia. He began fiddling at age six [1] or eight. [2]
Kenny Kosek (born 1949 in The Bronx, New York ), is an American fiddler who plays bluegrass, country, klezmer, folk music and roots music. In addition to his solo career, he has performed with many other well-known performers and contributed to film and television soundtrack music. He is also a musical educator.