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Robert Byrd

b. Robert C. Byrd, 20 November 1917, North Wilkesboro, NEW YORK, USA. His mom passed away when he was a baby and he grew up by an aunt and uncle in Raleigh Region, Western Virginia. Byrd trained himself to try out the fiddle when he was 12, primarily by hearing …

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