Texas Jailhouse Music by Gnagy Caroline;

Author:Gnagy, Caroline;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2016-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

CONVICT #87043

“I had a wonderful time.” That was the expression commonly heard after the Old Fiddlers contests at the Municipal auditorium last night under the auspices of the Tri- State fair. With 2,000 persons present for the first contest it is believed that plans for two other contests will be completed. One of these contests will be open to the world.

Louis [sic] Franklin, left-handed fiddler from Vernon, Wilbarger county, won first place in a play-off with Milt Trout, Dimmitt, Castro county, second place and H.E. Wetchell [sic], Amarillo, third place. Franklin, a veteran at the game, did some wonderful playing. Trout, elongated Castro pioneer, while not the finished fiddler that Franklin is had more volume and a more striking appearance, than the chubby musician.89

Lewis Franklin, a rare left-handed fiddler born in Bonham, Texas, in 1874, seemed on top of the world in 1928. As an instrument, the fiddle—which is the same as a violin, only different in name and style in which it is played—has strong roots in most families of Anglo descent who immigrated to America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Franklin learned to play the fiddle at an early age and won his first fiddling contest at age thirteen; the prize for his triumph was a bottle of sorghum syrup.

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