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Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine.(Vernacular Musics)(Book Review)
Fiddling Way Out Yonder: The Life and Music of Melvin Wine. By Drew Beisswenger. (American Made Music Series.) Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. [xvi, 230 p. ISBN 1-57806-441-4. $40.] Illustrations, bibliography, index.
Melvin Wine was born in 1909 and spent most of his life in north-central West Virginia. Descended from eighteenth-century German immigrants, he learned to play the fiddle from his father, who in turn had learned from the playing of his grandfather and the singing of his own father, Melvin's grandfather. Melvin lived to the age of ninety-three and reportedly continued to play until his death early in 2003, shortly after the ...
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