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lxillbilli
Playing Since: 1982
Experience Level: Expert/Professional

Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]

Occupation: Pappy, Designer/Artist, Freelance Archaeologist, Musician... & Coffee consultant/standards tech..

Gender: Male
Age: 57

My Instruments:
1st Wildwood prototype 1968 or so - modified.... #2 - A fretless conversion vernacular lttle walnut w/ resonator job from Ky...

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Starting with the past gone, Roscoe Holcomb, Doc Boggs, Stringbean-Dave Akeman, Dave Macon, Fraiser & Patterson, Dink Roberts, James Roberts, Morgan Sexton, Virgil Anderson, Ola Belle Reed, Bill Cornett, Skillet Lickers, Grayson & Whitter, Fred Cockerham, Fred McDowell, James Brown.... Some Living - Richie Stearns, Tom Riccio, Mark Olitsky, Al Tharp, Frank Lee, Dirky, Lil' Bobby Carlin, Bobby Fulcher, Ernist Ranglin, John Herman on good days, Gordy Hinners, many others, you know!

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Created 3/31/2006
Last Visit 12/31/2022

Banjo player with more coming... Raised up in Kentucky where I got my banjo playing from All that was happening around me then - JD Crowe, Ralph Stanley, Dave Evans, Grandpa Jones, Stringbean, Lilly Mae Ledford, Homer Ledford, Bela Fleck, Scotty Holbrook, Bob Carlin who came in looking for the ghost of John Salyers, Lee Sexton, Bruce Lewis, George Neal, Met Blues Allstars, Appalshop folks, Crazy Ole' Men & pretty young girls........ For many years now, I play, work & live All over the World - Now in "bushland" Texas, North Carolina, Vermont, Hawaii, East & West Africa, Guam, & The Middle East. Thats the quick tour... Oh how about my music bio?