My grandfather is holding the fiddle on the right. He started learning how to play the fiddle at the young age of 3. He would take his Grandpa Christopher Wright's fiddle out and play it. He grew up in a musical family. His mother played the piano, organ and saxophone. All of his brothers played instruments too. My grandfather and his brothers was in a band called the Wright mountaineers. He was also in a group called the Utah Trailors with Ace Bailey, his son, Dick Bailey and Bill was the bass player. The group joined up with the WIBC Jamboree starring Jimmy Dickens. They played on the radio. Later he formed his own group called Smokey Bill and the Swinging Hillbilly's (in his days of the radio Jimmy Dickens called him Smokey Joe.) They were very good and played at many fairs, festivals and clubs all over Indiana and other states http://www.familylegacies.com/legacy_output.asp?leg_id=1972.
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