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By DANIEL CORN Rappahannock Vw» Sp**riol 1 r»t»-r
Finger Picking Good!
“Can’t find music like this anywhere” and “Those ol boys sure know how to play” were some of the things that I was told the night that I went to Ronnie Poe’s “picking party," with guitarist Charlie Tomkins, to listen to some homegrown bluegrass music.
Charlie: “Bluegrass is acoustic music and usually features harmony singing, and it has banjo usually, a fiddle, and a mandolin. It's a group thing and kind of a folk music, which has stayed in its roots, whereas other music has become slick and polished.”
Ronnie Poe: “Bill Monroe was really the grandaddy of the music. Everything evolved front him. Of course there were the Stanley’s and Earl Scruggs, but Bill Monroe was the biggest.”
The community of bluegrass musicians in the Rappahannock County area of Virginia is large and, to me, it seemed like a good place to meet some of the people. I initially met Charlie Tomkins who, even though he was raised in a rural area, wasn’t really one of the grass roots people. He was more worldly.
“I have some independent resources, so I can afford to pursue art, which is what I am doing. . .Music is kind of a love of mine. I like doing it and I like keeping it that way. I don’t like it as a profession where I’d have to be doing it all the time and traveling and depending on it.”
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