collieguy
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| Occupation | escaped free range pig farmer, musician, teacher, luthier, artist |
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| Location | out in the hills, Iowa |
| Introduction | I live on a farm with my lovely wife, a wonderful border collie and her pup, about nine cats that were dumped or otherwise sought us out and two huge sows who are the last remnants of a tradition of field farrowing that my family engaged in as far back as anyone knows. Found myself supporting a pig farm in Iowa by playing fiddle & banjo...the pigs had to go. Kept two half Tamworth sows to keep the collie amused. I teach music, make and repair instruments, and we travel and perform any chance we get. We play anything from backyard parties to corporate events and can run the rosin and bow all night wihout repeating ourselves. Many a fine morning I've seen the sun come up with a fiddle in my hand. |
| Interests | border collies, old-time southern string music, endangered but tasty pigs-the Tamworth, lost causes, Mac computers, Moline tractors, pre 1966 Allis Chalmers, cooking, photography, writing, fiddle, clawhammer banjo, banjo-mandolin, didjeridu, Walt Kelly, Walt Lantz |
| Favorite music | Old-time southern recorded in the 20's and 30's, roots music from most cultures, Gogol Bordello, The Georgia Yellowhammers, Joe Thompson, The Skillet Lickers, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Lusk Gribble & York, Clyde Davenport, Rayna Gellert, The Camp Creek Boys, Inlakesh, Walt Koken, field recordings of Native American music |
| Favorite books | Cookbooks found in second hand book stores. Well written diaries and memoirs long out of print. The Man Who Walked Through Time. |