Word: fiddlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tossy finds a few minutes to teach his blonde daughter Ruth, 10, his special brand of fiddling. But as for Ruth having a fiddler's career, Tossy says "too strenuous for a woman, at least our little woman...
...withdrawn northward in a shower of garbage, Republicans staged a rally in industrial Kingsport, a G.O.P. stronghold in mountainous eastern Tennessee. Fourteen thousand people crowded into a parking lot and overflowed into the street. They were there to hear ex-National Chairman Carroll Reece, candidate for U.S. Senator, and Fiddler Roy Acuff, nominee for governor...
...most convenient pigeonhole to describe Erica Morini: "The greatest woman violinist . . ." Others could excuse her sex but not forget it: "A great violinist-regardless of sex." But now, after 20 years of hearing her play, most were willing to take Erica as she wants to be taken-as a fiddler...
...Trombonist Jack Teagarden, Clarinetist Barney Bigard, Pianist Earl Hines, Drummer Sid Catlett, Bull Fiddler Arvell Shaw...
...radio show in Dallas. At 14, she had a band of her own called the "Rhythmaticians." At 15, she was singing with Swing Fiddler Joe Venuti's band, wandering across the U.S. on deadly one-night stands. Then Jazzman Charlie Barnet put her up against his nine brasses. "I pay for 'em," Charlie used to roar, "and I want to hear 'em." After two years of shouting, Kay Starr's voice broke down...