Fred Price

Fred Price claims to have learned to play the fiddle literally before dinner. As the story goes, his father came home one day with a newly purchased fiddle for his son, which he presented him with while supper was being put on the table. By the time the boy sat down to eat, he was already sawing out "The Little Log Cabin in the Lane," sawing being the operative word due to the impossibility of a fiddler developing a good clean sound within moments, even if one accepts this tall-tale of a musical prodigy. At any rate, this Appalachian fiddler was obviously a quick study, learni...