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11 Mar

Fiddler Wilson Douglas died at age 76

Fiddler Wilson Douglas (October 22, 1922 - March 11, 1999) was one of West Virginia’s most revered old-time musicians. In a posthumous assessment of Douglas’s life, his son James Wilson Douglas noted that his father “was a man of contradictions, a...

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