The Forresters

Bobby Forrester and his uncle Joe get together in and around their Nashville homes and play tunes with years of tradition in their family. Bob’s father, and Joe’s brother, the late Howdy Forrester, played with Roy Acuff for more than 40 years, and his tone and mastery made a true giant among fiddlers in the U.S. and the world. The ancestral family home is about an hour or so east of Music City, in Hickman County, where the traditional arts of fiddling and moonshining were often tested at community fish fries. Howdy bore the tunes from his immediate ancestors, but also played with the legendary early country fiddler Georgia Slim. Whether the music is traced to the backwoods or to the Grand Ol’ Opry, they’re all part of the family repertoire.

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