In his home at the southern end of Owen County musician John Harrod is sitting on an upholstered, rolling, desk chair, with his legs crossed at the knees and a fiddle tucked under his chin. He’s demonstrating fiddle playing from various regions in Kentucky.
Harrod has been playing the fiddle for 60 years. He says he spent the 1970s, 80s, and 90s documenting old-style traditional music in Kentucky.
“Particularly fiddle music. I focused on the fiddle probably more than anything else because the fiddle just has a way of grabbing hold of you,” reported Harrod.
