ROBERTS, FIDDLIN' DOC
(1897–1978)
ROBERTS, FIDDLIN' DOC (b. Dock Phil R., Madison County, Ky., April 26, 1897–August 4, 1978) Roberts was a fine Kentucky-styled fiddler who made over eighty recordings during the 1920s and 1930s, and then was rediscovered in the 1970s. Roberts came from a farm family that had settled in the mountains of Kentucky sometime before the Civil War. His older brother, Liebert, was a fine FIDDLE player, and Doc began learning tunes from Liebert and other regional fiddlers at the age of seven. One of the…