As a portrait photographer I saw one of the main ingredients of this book as relying on my images to tell the story and to capture the spirit of our music, memories and mountains in a visual format. I took a personal portrait of every musician that I interviewed and gave them a free print in exchange for their time and as a way of saying "Thank you for sharing your music with all of us".  The portrait above is of Mildred Alexander and Sam Gleaves sharing an old-time gospel song together. This is what it looks like to pass down our old time music with the younger ones.

Below are a few portraits of some of our amazing musicians and luthiers in the book! 

Wayne Henderson- Luthier-Musician

Elizabeth LaPrelle-Singer-Musician

Doc Watson-Legend

Sam Gleaves- Musician-singer

Jayne Henderson- Lutheir

Kay Justice-Old time singer-musician