American - Musician | May 30, 1926 - May 9, 2015
I've always liked the stuff that kicks.
Johnny Gimble
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I wasn't really an old-time breakdown fiddler.
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Texas was home. We went to Anchorage to get rich in 1959. Someone told us, 'If you drive a nail, you could make $100 a day in construction work.' We were hungry, and we stayed there for a year and a half. But I never did plan to stay there - the same with Nashville. I was gonna go up there and work, but Texas was home.
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My dad was a telegraph operator for the Cotton Belt Railroad. He worked seven nights a week from 4 until midnight, no vacation.
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I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.
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The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.
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I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.
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When I was 15, I was working for a radio band in Shreveport. Cliff Bruner, the hottest Texas fiddler of them all, was on the same package shows, playing for Jimmie Davis.
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I had a stroke in December of '99, and it affected my left side - my fingering side.
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I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in.
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When I get asked for advice for a young person starting in the music business, I tell them, 'Play every chance you get, and be real lucky.'
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I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or $1 a day. People would work for $1 a day during the Depression. So we would get $2 for playing music and just having fun. I think that as a result of that it was not just the money, but we enjoyed doing it.
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