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<p>New page: &#039;&#039;&#039;Stella Kimble&#039;&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;&#039;Pearl Richardson:&#039;&#039;&#039; I went to Laurel Fork in search of fiddle-player Taylor Kimble.  Taylor was extremely ill and, though confined to a wheelchair, insiste...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Stella Kimble&#039;&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;&#039;Pearl Richardson:&#039;&#039;&#039; I went to Laurel Fork in search of fiddle-player Taylor Kimble.&amp;nbsp; Taylor was extremely ill and, though confined to a wheelchair, insisted on playing me a few tunes.&amp;nbsp; Sadly, his strength had gone and none of his recordings is issued here.&amp;nbsp; However, Taylor’s wife, Stella, and her sister Pearl Richardson were prompted by my visit to try to recall some of the songs that they had learnt in their youth, such as &#039;&#039;Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender, First Come in Was a Bumblebee&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Fair and Tender Ladies&#039;&#039;.&amp;nbsp; Stella and Pearl were originally from the deep mountains of western North Carolina, where Stella had also learnt to play the banjo from her father.&amp;nbsp; “It should sound like a chicken picking up corn”, was how her father described it.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;Part of the booklet notes, written by Mike Yates, to the Musical Traditions Records CDs Far in the Mountains (MTCD321-4)&#039;&#039;</div>

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