Old Time Photo Gallery -- Page 7

Here are some more photos of friends, mentors, and heroes. Last updated December 28, 1997.

Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, from Tennessee, star of the Grand Ole Opry and one of the most influential fiddlers of the 20th Century. J.W. "Blind Bill" Day, also known as Jilson Setters. from Ashland, Kentucky.

Leonard Rutherford and Dick Burnett, prolific recording duo, from Monticello, Kentucky. Earl Johnson, center with fiddle, and his brothers, North Georgia.

Unknown fiddler and mandolinist, from the 1930s. A 1926 photo of The Hill Billies, originally from the Galax, Virginia area. Elvis Alderman and Charlie Bowman on fiddles, Joe Hopkins on guitar, and Al Hopkins, here on banjo-uke.

A recording session at the Secret Museum of Mankind.

 Rosa Lee Carson and her father, better known as Moonshine Kate and Fiddlin' John. From North Georgia.
One of my favorite American string bands, The Popovich Brothers Tamburica Orkestar, based in Chicago, of Serbian extraction. Wayne Perry, from Indian Springs, Louisiana, as he was recorded in 1934 for the Archive of Folk song, Library of Congress.

Unknown string band at the Whitetop Folk Festival in Virginia in 1933.

    Gerry Milnes on banjo, accompanies Melvin Wine under the famous tree in the parking lot in Glenville, West Virginia, about 1974, during the West Virginia State Folk.
Oscar Barbee on banjo and Eldia Barbee on fiddle at the National Folk Festival, Vienna, Virginia about 1978. The Barbees hailed from Soddy, Tennessee. Major Contay and His Canebrake Rattlers, Richmond Hill, New York, late 1970s. Left to right: Maj. P.V. "Pat" Conte, U.S.A., ret., on fiddle; Mark Farrell, guitar; Bill Dillof, fiddle; Tom Legenhausen, banjo.

Unknown band, playing for an outdoor square dance, pn the Franklin County / Patrick County border, 1950. Brad Leftwich, at a party in Brady Lake, Ohio (at the home of Beth Braden and Lynn Frederick), mid- '80s. Does anyone know what is going on?

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