Sherman Lawson

West Virginia fiddler Sherman Lawson is chiefly known as the only musician to ever record with the white country blues guitarist Frank Hutchison. Lawson was raised in West Virginia where had one uncle who played a chopping thumb-and-finger banjo style, and another who made him a gourd fiddle, which Lawson started to play when he was about 11 years old. In a 1964 interview with Mike Seeger, Lawson recalled that the first tune he learned to play was "What Will We Do With the Baby-O?" He became a carpenter when he got older, got married, and continued playing his fiddle at square...