LEDFORD, LILY MAY
(1917–1985)
LEDFORD, LILY MAY (b. Pilot, Ky., March 17, 1917–July 14, 1985) Ledford was a fiddler/banjoist who led The Coon Creek Girls , the first all-female country band, popular in the 1930s. She was rediscovered during the 1970s old-time music revival. Born in tiny Pinch-'em-Tight Holler, Ledford began performing on a homemade BANJO with a ground-hog hide for a tone head when she was seven. She took up the FIDDLE at age eleven, and by the time she was seventeen, was fiddling for tipsat the local train…