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Keyser
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said the talent for music is a gift from God,” recalls Keyser. ‘“You have it\ he told me, ‘it’s in the genes, in the blood.’”
The young musician learned the tunes, words and melodies, by heart. “Quite a few,” he says, “all in the head. They were hand-medowns. I don’t read music.”
He learned by going to hear and watch older men play.
And not just his relatives.
He studied a man Keyser calls one of America’s greats, John Ashby.
“He was,” says Keyser,” the first fiddle player to appear at Carnegie Hall in New York. I picked up quite a few fiddle tunes from him.” Keyser would also hug the jukebox, listening over and over to well-known artists.
In all of this, Keyser was encouraged by his mother, Sam Whorton’s daughter Addie. Addie lives in
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