J.P. Fraley

Considered one of the deans of Kentucky country fiddling, this musician has managed to keep busy well into his senior years, keeping up a schedule of bluegrass festivals, fiddle conventions, and traditional music workshops that might wear out a younger man. He learned music from his father and passed it on to his daughter Danielle Fraley, who has backed him up both onstage and in the studio as a member of the Fraley Band. Although he started working in the Kentucky mines as a young man, he managed to be promoted well above the level of a miner of the type whose hard life frequ...