Bobby Simpson

Bluegrass music, pure at heart and as clean as the driven snow across the Appalachian trail, that is during the few times a year when it does snow. Reality check: there's pollution in the mountains around Asheville, and some bluegrass pickers get in legal trouble. The bail bondsman of choice in such a situation was, for a long time, banjo picker Bobby Simpson, a former member of the Country Pardners, an Ohio trio which was loved dearly up until the point when one of its member ran off with Uncle Sam and rock & roll music arrived in the form of Elvis Presley and his shaking hip...