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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 03:34 AM
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Sen. Robert C. Byrd fiddles on The Grand Ole Opry (Get well wishes for my senator!)
Edited on Tue Jun-02-09 03:37 AM by Adenoid_Hynkel
 
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Vintage clips from the '80s. As anyone from W.Va. can tell you, the senator used to play a mean fiddle at Democratic Party events.

I'm a proud owner of this vinyl album:
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 03:57 AM
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1. Great clips--some of the camerawork was rather charmingly...er, drunken!
But the old boy can play!
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stlsaxman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 05:19 AM
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2. How very sweet! didn't know he played!? has he been unwell of late? K&R
all that rosin on his fiddle belies the decades...

thanks for posting

Get well Senator Byrd!
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47of74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 06:38 AM
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3. I do know he had been taken to the hospital recently
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stlsaxman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 06:48 AM
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4. thanks 47, i'll look into this further and wish the wonderful man well.
:hi:
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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-03-09 12:11 AM
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7. He's suffering from a staph infection after being hospitalized for a fever
Our local media is pretty grim at the moment.
Hope the old guy pulls through and shows 'em wrong.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 09:36 AM
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5. Nice double strings on "Country Roads"--I've tried to play that on
the fiddle myself, but I'm not skilled enough to play it like he did.
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CBR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 10:19 AM
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6. Very cool. Thanks for this. Sometimes I really miss WV --
a state full of contradictions. Mixed feelings. Best wishes for Senator Byrd.
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