With summer in full swing it’s tough not to think about our old friend Benton Flippen from Mt. Airy, North Carolina. Ask anyone that’s into old-time music about some the fore fathers of old fiddle music and Benton’s name will surely come up. His style and this tune, Cumberland Gap, are emblematic of true old-time music. Although Benton passed in 2011 his legacy lives on at fiddler’s conventions across the US.

— Corn Lewis