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Fiddler Bert Layne may be the Arkansas traveller if there ever was a single, having crisscrossed the country as both a touring musician and a rambling teen boy. He’s frequently connected with fellow fiddler Clayon McMichen, and with a lot of reasons. Both married a set of sisters and had …

The Skillet Lickers were perhaps one of the most important and influential string rings from the ’20s and ’30s. Led by fiddler Gid Tanner, the music group combined old-timey nation music using a wacky love of life and showmanship that produced the group perhaps one of the most well-known nation …