Lester McCumbers

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Posted by Don Borchelt on Wednesday, October 29, 2008

"It ain't the idea of doing to suit somebody... never was my idea. It is just to play the way I wanted to play and the way it comes natural. The little bit I play comes natural for me, you know, and if I hear somebody play a tune, why, I pick the fiddle up if I want to learn that tune. I don't try to play it like he did. I try to play it the way I play it... You can hunt this country over and you won't find nary two fellers that plays the same tune exactly alike."

- fiddler Lester McCumbers, quoted in Music in the Air Somewhere by Erynn Marshall

3 comments on “Lester McCumbers”

Ks_5-picker Says:
Thursday, October 30, 2008 @3:28:42 AM

That's what I like about the banjo lounge,you can hear the same tuned played so many different ways,or.....in your case,I can hear tunes I've never heard anybody else play.