{"id":48,"date":"2007-06-04T12:36:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T17:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomsmithmusic.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2019-04-17T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T20:58:00","slug":"blind-fiddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomsmithmusic.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Blind Fiddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\".\/audio\/Blind_Fiddler.mp3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Smith playing &#8220;Blind Fiddler&#8221;<\/a> <em>(Click to play audio)<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\".\/audio\/First_Two_Ladies_Cross_Over.mp3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jehile Kirkuff playing &#8220;First Two Ladies Cross Over&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n(Click to play audio)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomsmithmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/jehilekirkuff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"91\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49\" \/>I think of Jehile Kirkhuff when I sing this song. I met Jehile in Northeastern Pennsylvania about 1974, making several more visits during that summer. I think I may have made myself a nuisance, though he did allow me to accompany him on guitar during a show at the local school cafeteria. He was indeed a blind fiddler with a great breadth of tunes and skill with his bow. He was also a dance caller and entertained us all night with his magical story telling. On his mantle he proudly displayed a trophy that read &#8220;World Champion Fiddler&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I learned this song from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleseedrec.com\/jody_stecher\/\" title=\"Jody Stecher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jody Stecher<\/a>. On this recording I play guitar and banjo. The conga is a software instrument loop (couldn&#8217;t resist).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Smith playing &#8220;Blind Fiddler&#8221; (Click to play audio) Jehile Kirkuff playing &#8220;First Two Ladies Cross Over&#8221; (Click to play audio) I think of Jehile&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomsmithmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomsmithmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomsmithmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomsmithmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomsmithmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomsmithmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5255,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomsmithmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/5255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomsmithmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomsmithmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomsmithmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomsmithmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomsmithmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flocation&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}