BAKER, KENNY
(*1926)
BAKER, KENNY (b. Kenneth B., Jenkins, Ky., June 26, 1926) Baker, longtime fiddler for BILL MONROE and one of the most influential of all BLUEGRASS fiddlers who still maintains links with older traditions, was born to a line of coal miners and fiddlers; he is said to have first taken up the FIDDLE at age eight, but his father apparently did not feel he had sufficient potential to handle the instrument. Consequently he switched to GUITAR in his high-school years, then returned to the fiddle in…