Tommy Jarrell

North Carolina · born or raised1901–1985

American fiddler and banjo player (1901-1985)

Born in Surry County
Lived in Surry County

Quotations with a citation

As she was a-laying there she asked me to get my banjo and sing Little Maggie for her. I expect I played it the best I ever have in my life, with the most feeling anyway.

Now, mister, they ain't nobody mastered the fiddle. Ther's notes in that fiddle ain't nobody found.' I said, 'Ther's music in that thing that'll be there when Gabriel toots his horn.

Oh, he's a kind hearted kind of a feller. He's like me; never did have much of anything but he's willing to divide whatever he had with anybody. Wasn't no better feller than Charlie Lowe.

Nina, we'll get married if you want to, but,' I says, 'I'll tell you right now, I make whiskey, I play poker, an' I go to dances, I make music,' an' I says, 'I don't know whether I'll ever quit that. But,' I says 'if you think we can get along, now, we'll get married, an' if you don't think we can, right now's the time to say somethin