Musician. Born in Scott County, Kentucky, he was an early western music pioneer known as a teller of tall tales and a fiddle player. He is most noted for composing the popular fiddle tune "The Arkansas Traveler", which was the State song of Arkansas from 1949 to 1963. He also served as a Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and Faulkner County Arkansas, is named in his honor. (bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
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