John "Dick" Summers

John Wesley "Dick" Summers (1887-1976) was an old-time fiddler from Indiana. He learned to play from his family, but a Tom Riley of Kentucky was also an influence. Summers did not originally read music, but did learn to do so in his 70s.[1] He was one of the only old-time Midwestern fiddlers to have a commercially distributed album in the post-WWII era.[2] As indicated though his style had Southern, and as mentioned Kentucky, influences.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Field Recorder
  2. ↑ The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia by Richard Sisson, Christian K. Zacher, Andrew Robert Lee Cayton, pg 385
  3. ↑ Old-time Music And Dance: Community And Folk Revival by John Bealle, pg 41
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