Champion Fiddler, Inspired Performer
When I hear (or play) When Johnny Comes Marching Home, it totally transports me mentally to civil war times. I can hear the drummer and the marching, and I can Imagine a soldier coming home to his family who had been missing him, and wondering if he would ever return alive. It’s a sad melody [...]
First, I have to apologize for the misstatements I made in my introduction to this tune. 1. I actually learned this tune from Cody Marriott, not Junior Marriott. 2. I should have said that Cody learned it from a recording of Benny Thommasson, not “From Benny Thommasson”. Now that I have that out of the [...]
