John McCutcheon, the talented multi-instrumentalist folk singer from Wausau,
Wisconsin, is considered as much a storyteller as a musician. McCutcheon learned
about American folk music during a trip to the Appalachians when he was a young
man and met from some of the country's greatest exponents of American
traditional music such as the banjo playing coal miner Roscoe Holcomb and the
North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Hunter. This early immersion into traditional
US folk music helped develop McCutcheon's distinctive style where each song
carries a message or tells a story.
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