Bruce Greene
There are few fiddlers
who I believe have approached traditional fiddling with as much talent and
respect as Bruce Greene. He has explored much of the music of Kentucky, from
living players as well as archived recordings, and made himself a true native
to the style.
Here is what
some others have said about him:
Robert Bruce Greene is known
worldwide as one of the finest living exponents of old time Kentucky fiddle
music. He is also a skilled old time banjo player, singer, and collector of
traditional Appalachian music and culture. Bruce has lived and worked among the
people of Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina for more than thirty years,
bringing to his playing the profound intimacy and dignity he absorbed through
his apprenticeships with musicians born as far back as the 1880’s.
"Bruce's repertoire
includes a vast number of obscure and crooked tunes, as if opening a previously
locked door to a room rich with old-time music most people didn't know
existed...His playing never fails to transport me back to the lost and ancient
world of Old Kentucky. His style is smooth as silk, his delivery exciting, his
use of ornamentation harks back to the melding of Old World and New World that
has occurred in Southern music a century and a half ago."
- David Lynch, Old Time Music Top
Listen to his version of: Betty Baker ( played with the fiddle tuned AEAE )