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Posts Tagged: violinist passes away


Posts Tagged ‘violinist passes away’

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

Influential fiddler who played in Bill Monroe’s groundbreaking band Bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker has died at the age of 85. The son of an old-time fiddle player, Baker was born in Burdine, Kentucky. He took up guitar before becoming interested in the fiddle after listening to Western swing fiddler and bandleader Bob Wills and jazz […]