Edden Hammons  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search  Edden Hammons (born 28 Feb 1875[1] Webster
County, West Virginia, died 7 September 1955[2] ) was an
American fiddler from West Virginia. He was known for his
idiosyncratic style, creativity, and the many (often
exaggerated) folkloric tales about him.[3]   Edden Hammons was
born to Jesse Hammons and Nancy Hicks on 28 February 1875 at
Williams River in Webster County, West Virginia. He was the
youngest in a family of seven. His three brothers (Paris, Peter,
and Cornelius), as well as his father, played the fiddle. Edden
took up the fiddle at an early age, playing on a fiddle made out
of a gourd that his father made for him. His family was known
for its musicians, woodsmen, and hunters.[3]  Edden progressed
in his fiddle playing and soon obtained a store-bought fiddle.
There are several different stories about this. In one, a friend
of Edden's father asked Edden to play him a tune. Edden took out
his gourd-fiddle and played for the