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Kenneth Clayton Baker (June 26, 1926 – July 8, 2011) was an American fiddle player best known for his 25-year tenure with Bill Monroe and his group The Blue Grass Boys. [1] [2] Biography. Baker was born in Burdine, Kentucky [3] and learned the fiddle by accompanying his father, also a fiddler.
Kenny Baker (June 26, 1926 - July 8, 2011) was born in Burdine, Kentucky and learned the fiddler by accompanying his father, also a fiddler. Early on, he was influenced by the swing fiddler Marion Sumner, not to mention Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli.
Early festival-goers recall close bonds between Kenny Baker, the North Carolina legend Tommy Jarrell, young Jimmy Arnold, duet partner Joe Greene, and pre-teen James Bryan. In earlier years, Baker had a prodigious musical memory and was able to remember a tune from one hearing.
Aug 2, 2011 · Kenny Baker, an influential bluegrass fiddler whose melodic, fluid style became a signature of Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, with whom he performed and recorded off and on for more...
Kenny Baker was born June 26, 1926, in the small coal-mining town of Burdine, Kentucky. He came from a long line of fiddlers. "My daddy played, my great-grandfather played," he said. "My grandmother played.
Jul 8, 2011 · Kenny Baker, perhaps the most celebrated fiddler in the history of Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys, died today at 1:30 p.m. (EDT) in Nashville, after suffering a stroke earlier this week. He was 85 years of age.
One night in 1957, when the Blue Grass Boys and Gibson’s band shared a bill, Monroe hired Kenny. They were together, off and on, for 25 years. By the time he left the band — for good — in 1984, Kenny Baker had changed bluegrass fiddling – also for good.
