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Rain Crow Breakdown

  • Rain Crow Breakdown

    The late Burk Barbour of Lynchburg, Virginia, a highly reputed but seldom recorded fiddler of the early bluegrass years, had several of these custom 78s made by a Roanoke recording studio.

    Burk Barbour, fiddle; unknown others,

    Roanoke VA 10/25/53 private recording

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