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J.E. Mainer

Mainer’s Mountaineers, using their innovator J.E. Mainer on fiddle, had been probably one of the most well-known string bands from the 1930s. They created an important hyperlink between old-time string music and bluegrass, and their musical existence exemplified a number of important areas of the musical tradition of the hill …

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