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Lee Hammons: Very Old-Time Banjo

Lee Hammons: Very Old-Time Banjo

His banjo style was transcendent, but his fiddling taught me something else

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Mr. Hammons, which is what we called him, was born May 29th in, I believe, 1884.

Mr. Lee Hammons, ca. 1973, Marlinton, West Virginia.

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The reason I figure it was 1884 (rather than other cited dates 1883 or 1886)…

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