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Lucas Pasley.
More than a few families with strong musical traditions call Appalachia home. West Virginia alone has the Hammons and the Kessingers, talented kin known worldwide as bearers of musical traditions. But, for Lucas Pasley, a fiddler, banjo player and singer-songwriter from Alleghany County, North Carolina, family musical traditions were not some flowing stream to draw from. They were more of a deep spring, hidden in plain sight.
Lucas grew up in a family with more than its fair share of musical talent.
They would sing for weddings, for churches, and for revivals, Lucas recalled of elder family members. ....

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