Dent Wimmer
Dennis Omer “Dent” Wimmer (1908-1979) was one of nine children born to Thomas Fleming Wimmer and Hattie DeWeese Wimmer of Copper Hill in Floyd, County. Thomas Wimmer was a fiddle player, and he passed his …
Sam Conner
Sam Conner
BY MAC TRAYNHAM AND ALICE SLUSHER— Oldtime fiddler Samuel Henry Conner was born in 1909 in Franklin County and lived the majority of his life in the Copper Hill area of Floyd County, Virginia. Both Sam …
Beyond the Shellac – Aural Transmission and the Boundless Music of Appalachia
While it’s easy to get lost in the heralding romanticism of Henry Whitter’s journey to spearhead the recording of early country music, it would be a vast disservice to limit our assessment of Southwest Virginia’s …
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