I think I mentioned to ya a while back that I was born in Atlanta and mostly raised in North Carolina. I hated mountain music then. I hated anything associated with the south, anything associated with Southern mentality and remotely associated with "Hillbilly" culture.
It wasn't until I became reaquainted with it here in the San Francisco Bay area in the 70's when I started playing my first musical instrument which was a mandolin, learning to play by ear off of Kenny Hall recordings after hearing him and a bunch of bay area old timey/blue grass players doing this music in living rooms and then local pubs/festivals etc.
At some point i found a recording by the Grateful Dead with Dave Grisman (I think) and Peter Rowan doing all these great old timey/blue grass stuff. I then got into trad Irish and Scottish music, started playing fiddle, for years. Back into ole time again.. circling back around. There's quite a community of players around here. You've probably heard of Carolina Chocolate Drops?
Radio station i was hooked up with broadcast their performance live :
Two of my favorite currently alive fiddlers Aly Bain, Bruce Molsky here at the Transatlantic sessions (Aly Bain is from Shetland) among Jerry Douglas and Sharon Shannon among others are sitting on this session.
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