BILLY WOMACK IN RETROSPECT: DOWN AT THE BARBER SHOP

WOMACK, BILLY
SPRING FED RECORDS

Item Information Artists Name: WOMACK, BILLY Title: BILLY WOMACK IN RETROSPECT: DOWN AT THE BARBER SHOP Format: CD Label: SPRING FED RECORDS City Hall Catalog Number:  102 UPC Product Code: 783707964126 List Price: 16.98 Musical Category:  FOLK/BLUEGRASS Release Date:  4/22/2008 Additional Musical Category Notes: Bluegrass fiddle, Bluegrass stringband  The stories surrounding Billy Womack could easily fill a book. He was a champion fiddler, a mean guitar player, a master buck dancer, and a violin maker. He taught others to play the fiddle, sheared countless heads of hair, was famous for skinning rattlesnakes and for playing practical jokes, and weighed 104 pounds soaking wet. He influenced scores of young musicians who traveled miles of country roads to jam with him in his fabled Bluegrass Barber Shop. All of these talents and traits combined to make a man who was a local legend, and one of the most sorely under recorded fiddlers in Tennessee traditional music.