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Playing Since: 1941
Experience Level: Purty Good
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[Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]
Occupation: professor
Gender: Male
Age: 83
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A couple of old Maggini copies at the moment.
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Created 6/21/2007
Last Visit 10/19/2020
After hearing my uncles play old-time fiddle, I begged for a fiddle and started at age four. By age 9, I was playing regularly for square dances. About the time I was 12, square dances changed from the old tradition to "singing calls" done to recordings of pop music. I was ignorant about contests and bluegrass...I didn't know any other use for fiddle except square dances, so I quit and started playing jazz (bass, vibes, guitar, and drums). I have an old friend from Ireland and he did exactly the same thing. When the old "house dances" stopped, he quit playing for 20 years. I took it up again in the 60's and played with some successful bluegrass groups up into the 80's, including a stint with Mountain Smoke with 17 year old Vince Gill. I was more interested in old-time and that's the way I played. I also owned a folk coffee house in the 60's called the Dust Bowl" and lot of prominent folkies came to visit and perform. I was emcee at a bunch of festivals through the 70's, so I got to know a lot of famous fiddlers and I got to jam with many of them. I learned a lot. I also co-ran the Oklahoma State contest, so I got to know the leading contest fiddlers although I never had any desire to play contest style. I was always much more interested in old-time than bluegrass, but after the old guys died off, there was no old-time in Tulsa...it was all contest, western swing, and bluegrass. When I went to old-time festivals, I usually played clawhammer banjo. Then a few years ago, Mike Long called, wanting to play clawhammer to my fiddling. So, we started "The Old-time Good-time Boys", the name given to us by a dance caller. So, we have what I always wanted my whole life: pure old-time fiddle and banjo with no guitar , bass or other impediments. It is pure joy. We play regularly for the Tulsa Barn Dance and even though they had been used to celtic-leaning contra bands, both the callers and the dancers really like our decidedly non-contra appalachian style music. So, it has been off and on for 66 years, but now I am deeper into fiddling than ever. It is a great blessing at age 70!
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