This is the grave of Bascom Lunsford. Born in 1882 in Mars Hill, North Carolina, Lunsford grew up in the southern Appalachian world of music. His father was a fiddler and he was sure to get one of those for his son. This was a...
old-timey music
Criterion Channel is running a program of Les Blank's documentaries. I have seen quite a few of his groundbreaking and wonderful work in the 70s and 80s documenting American folk.
One of the benefits of the folk revival of the 60s was a lot of people went out and shot documentaries of the aging musicians of the South, at times.
This is the grave of Pendleton Vandiver. Born in 1869 in Butler County, Kentucky, Vandiver was an old-time fiddler. That wasn't uncommon. No one made any real money at this, but there wasn't much to do in the Kentucky hills, or most other rural places...