Lost in the mists of time. Jimmy Crack Corn, Frank Warner and Leadbelly, going back to 1949-1950. Later on it was David Hall, who taught me my first strum, and his brother Peter, who was my first banjo player, as the 50's were drawing down... there were a hundred well-springs, and I think it was what I breathed from my infancy onward. Episcopalian hymns, Richard Dyer Bennett, Folkways roots music from Arkansas, Pete and the Weavers and Burl Ives, even Harry Belafonte.


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