Gentle Annie - your post reminded me of the cover to the New Lost City Ramblers, Vol. 3. It shows an old Farm Security Administration photograph of an old-timey stringband. Four men on the front step of a house - one on banjo, one in coveralls playing a fiddle, one standing playing what looks to be a National guitar, and a man in a dark suit and tie bowing a cello! It looks incongruous at first glance, but the more I hear the cello in traditional music, the more natural that picture looks.

Chanteyranger