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By Jed Duvall
Special to the Rappahannock News
Mark your calendar. Prepare to tap your feet, often and fast. The “Country Rhythm Boys” are coming to town.
Saturday night, Jan. 24 at 8 p.m., country sounds will sing out at the Theatre in Little Washington on Gay Street.
Don Keyser will bring his band, the “Country Rhythm Boys” for an evening billed as a “Close To Home Concert.”
Keyser is joined by bass player Dave Edwards, Rick Johnson on the five-string banjo, Don Soliday with the hound-dog dobro, Frank Monicure, who sings and plays the mandolin, and Tbm Queen, on the dobro and acoustic guitar.
For Don Keyser, playing in Washington is indeed close to home. He grew up on Red Oak Mountain, looking down on Woodville. He did the chores—cut a whole lot of firewood—and took the long, long walk to school. The way he puts it, “I walked off the mountain,” to school, and on Sundays to worship at the Hope Hill Church, over toward Castleton, a long trek indeed.
All the while, as a boy, his head was filling up with tunes. He was picking at the guitar and by the time he was 12 years old, he was on stage with his grandfather, Sam Whorton, he said in an interview
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