Don White

A studio photograph from the '30s shows what looks like something of an extended Appalachian string band, including a piano player, a mandolinist whose instrument is almost bigger than he is, two fiddlers, a guitarist, an upright bassist, a banjoist, and a girl who seems to be holding a fife (although it could also be the sawed-off barrel of a shotgun). It is quite easy to find out what these people are. They are a band called the Briarhoppers, which was still going strong out of its Charlotte, NC, base nearly 75 years later. Telling the names of these people are is another st...