Bill Shepherd

Many musicians would just love to be described as "one of the primeval hillbillies" but will have to accept the disappointing reality that only a select group of performers actually merit such a title, one of them being fiddler and vocalist Bill Shepherd. To point out a glaring similarity in spelling abilities between hillbillies and discographers, the latter artist is frequently identified as a Shephard or Shepard. His brother with whom he performed, Hayes Shepherd, was also known as Hence Shepherd. The brothers, whose '20s recordings include the solid "Bound Steel Blues," ...