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| Walter Alexander | |||
| An Ozarks Fiddler. |
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| Liz Amos | |||
| Kenny Applebee | |||
| Guitar accompanist and fiddler from Rush
Hill, Audrain Co. MO. Has backed up many fine Missouri fiddlers in
contests. Played a lot with Pete McMahan. |
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| Earl Ball | |||
| Dr. Walter Bone | |||
| Old-time fiddler and
veteranarian from Pineville, McDonald Co., Missouri. Ozarks. |
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| Nolan Boone | |||
| Fiddler from Mexico,
Audrain Co., MO. Used to play in contests and dances with his wife
accompanying on the piano. Best known for playing the tune Aunt
Mary's Hornpipe. |
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| Emily Buckhannon | |||
| Kenneth "Polly" Burre | more info... | ||
| Fiddler and popular
contest MC from Tebbetts in Holt Co., MO. Also liked to repair
musical instruments. |
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| Pete "Pierre" Boyer | |||
| Luther Caldwell | |||
| Bill Caton (also Katon) | |||
| R. P. Christeson | |||
| Bill Conley | |||
| Buck Cuno | |||
| Earl Collins | |||
| Bill Driver | |||
| Roy "Bill" Eddy | |||
| Lyman Enloe | |||
| Mike Fraser | |||
| Art Galbraith | |||
| Chris German (Germain) | website | ||
| Joe Gerst | |||
| Simey Gerst | |||
| Jimmy Gilmore | |||
| Tony Gilmore | |||
| Cecil Goforth | |||
| Gene Goforth | |||
| Dr. Jimmy Gray | |||
| Dr. Gray was an oral surgeon and fiddler
from St. Louis. I went to visit him once with John Griffin at his
home in suburban St. Louis County. He was in his eighties at the
time. It was damn hot day and we watch Jimmy as he watered a large
pumpkin vine and brought it back from a severely wilted condition.
Dr. Gray played many unique tunes. Kingery Hornpipe was one such set in the key of A, which I transcribed and gave to R. P. Christeson for inclusion in his second volume. Interestingly, Dr. Gray was the originator of Gray's Solution, which was a cure for gingivitis. He reveled in showing John Griffin and I a photo album full of before and after shots of people's bad gums! |
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| John Griffin | |||
| Dwight Grover | |||
| Bob Hagan | |||
| Steve Hall | |||
| John Hartford | website | ||
| Carol Hascall | |||
| Clifford Hawthorne | |||
| George Helton | |||
| Ike Helton | |||
| Warren Helton | |||
| W. O. Hickam | |||
| Jake Hockemeyer | |||
| Referred to by some as the "left-handed
dutchman", Jake Hockemeyer was one of the great old-time fiddlers from the
Little Dixie region of Missouri when I was young. He was from Mokane
in Cole County and played left-handed "over the bass". His signature tune was Marmaduke's Hornpipe. I think I have never heard it played better than he could. He also played Fisher's Hornpipe in F really nicely (R. P. Christeson admired Jake's playing and once said he played Fisher's like Heifitz!). He had a particularly nice version of Peek-a-boo Waltz, as well, which if you closed your eyes while listening you might envision a slowly turning water wheel. |
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| Bob Holt | |||
| Jim Herd | |||
| Travis Inman | |||
| Raymond "Pick" Johnson | |||
| Vesta Johnson | |||
| Dean Johnson | |||
| Gary Johnson | |||
| Alton Jones | |||
| Casey Jones | |||
| Daniel Boone Jones | |||
| Kelly Jones | |||
| Paul Jones | |||
| Sac River Jones | |||
| Bill Kearns | |||
| Francis Kepner | |||
| Dwight Lamb (Iowa) | website | ||
| Vee Latty | |||
| Jim Lansford | website | ||
| Amy LeGrand | |||
| Harold Leek | |||
| B. E. "Bunny" Marriott | |||
| Junior Marriott | |||
| Cody Marriott | |||
| Howard "Rusty" Marshall | website | ||
| Taylor McBaine | |||
| Pete McMahan | |||
| Dave Morris | |||
| Brother of George Morris |
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| George Morris | more info... | ||
| The famous "fiddlin'
sheriff" from Columbia, Boone Co., MO. |
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| John Murdock | |||
| Michelle Ogle | |||
| Charlie Pasha | |||
| Joe Pollite | |||
| Dale Potter | more info... | ||
| Extra-ordinarily
gifted and successful professional fiddle player from Puxico in Southeast
Missouri. He composed extremely difficult tunes incorporating extended
double-stop passages beyond the capability of most country players (yours
truly included), such as Fiddle Patch. Not really Missouri-style per
se, but still should be recognized as coming from the Missouri tradition. |
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| Wade Ray | |||
| Lonnie Robertson | |||
| Geoff Seitz | |||
| Paul Shikles | |||
| Bill Shull | |||
| Hollis Shumaker | |||
| H. K. Silvey | |||
| Pearl Sivetts | |||
| Jimmy Skiles | |||
| Virgil Smith | more info... | ||
| Claude Stearns | |||
| Cyril Stinnett | |||
| Pete Stinnett | |||
| Alita Stoneking | |||
| Fred Stoneking | |||
| Lee Stoneking | |||
| Howe Teague | |||
| Ed Tharp | |||
| Elliot Tharp | |||
| Henry Taylor | |||
| Rhona Vincent | website | ||
| Linton Vomund | |||
| Bob Walsh | |||
| Billy Ward | |||
| Bob Walters | more info... | ||
| Gary Watson | |||
| Barbara Weathers | |||
| Gene Wells | |||
| Henry Wells | |||
| Lynn Wells | |||
| Mike Wells | |||
| John White | |||
| Adrian Williams | |||
| John Williams | website | ||
| Dolph Wilson | |||
| Nile Wilson | |||
| Doc Winagear | |||
| Roy Wooliver | |||
| Matt Wyatt | |||