I first saw him at McMaster University in the early sixties. He was playing banjo and guitar with the Tarriers who were guests on Oscar Brand's TV show Let's Sing Out.
I later saw him at the 1964 Mariposa Folk Festival as the bass player for the Greenbriar Boys.
sometime in the sixties I bought his and Marshall Brickman's "New Dimensions In Banjo & Bluegrass and that was my introduction to melodic banjo playing as well as my introduction to Clarence White's guitar playing.
When the movie Deliverance came out, someone gifted me with the sound track LP. When I listened to it, it sounded really familiar ( except for the Dueling Banjos cut). I realised that it was the New Dimensions album with one extra cut added and a new picture and title on the cover.