A Country Fiddler

Joe Dobbs' saga traces his growing up in rural Louisiana playing first a harmonica, then a broken down $10 violin on the way to a scintillating globe-trotting career as a fiddler, raconteur, music store merchant and radio show host. The story spills across Mississippi, Arkansas, New Mexico, West Virginia and venues as far-flung as New Zealand with pit stops in Nashville and Las Vegas. This is a down home book of music and mischief by a warm and talented song of the South.