A Country Fiddler

Joe Dobbs' saga traces his growing up in rural Louisiana playing first a harmonica, then a broken-down $10 violin on the way to a scintillating globe-trotting career as a fiddler, raconteur, music store merchant and radio show host. The story spills across Mississippi, Arkansas, New Mexico, New York City, West Virginia and venues as farflung as New Zealand with pit stops in Nasvhille and Las Vegas. This is a down-home book of music and mischief by a warm and talented son of the South.