Fiddler Glen Duncan<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/span>“So we go over there, and we see his whole show.\u00a0 It was great.\u00a0 They do
\neverything, and right towards the end he does “Little Maggie,” and so I’m happy as I can be.\u00a0 So Monroe’s getting ready to come on.\u00a0 And my Dad said, “Well, you want to stay and see Bill, or what?”\u00a0 It’s like, “Oh, I’ve got to go to school tomorrow, and gosh, we’ve seen him so many times, let’s just go ahead and go.”\u00a0 So we’re literally walking out of the old barn, and we’re clear back by the concession stand, and knowin’ what I know now– \u00a0 Stanley had gone over so big, ’cause they’d encored two or three times, that Monroe come right out of the hatch with “Uncle Pen,” which he never did.\u00a0 The whole time I played with him, we had a very set show.\u00a0 Now, he would move the banjo numbers and fiddle numbers around, if he was really trying to gouge somebody that he knew was there, but never, ever, did we ever come on with “Uncle Pen” in all those two-hundred shows I played with him, or whatever.\u00a0 They come on with “Uncle Pen,” so, I mean, we are literally walking out of the place, all the way at the back, and [Kenny] Baker’s playing with him.\u00a0 And we’re all the way back, where they used to have some bleachers, clear at the back of the place, you remember that?\u00a0 We\u2019re back by those bleachers, and they do “Uncle Pen,” and I mean, I had never heard anything like–\u00a0 I mean, I literally froze in my tracks, and turned around, and heard them do it.\u00a0 ‘Cause he had a great band, it was a great Bill Monroe band.\u00a0 And I had never ever heard the fiddle played that well in a bluegrass setting.\u00a0 I’d never heard fiddle of that quality, tone, smoothness, precision, and just an elegance and beauty about it that I just had to have it. \u00a0 And then it was like, “well, can we go watch this?”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span> So we just go all the way back down, and sit in about the third row, and watched ’em do the whole show.\u00a0 And of course in typical Monroe fashion they probably played ninety minutes, you know, ’cause he’s trying to really show ’em, you know, “I’m the guy,” you know, “pay no attention to the band behind the curtain!”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But it changed my life forever;\u00a0 then, from that time forward, I was a fiddle player.\u00a0 It just changed the whole thing.\u00a0 Changed the whole thing.\u00a0 I’m a fiddle player today because of that.”<\/span><\/p>\n